Blake Woolsey is a builder. Throughout her career in public relations that's included building teams, relationships and brands.
"Because my brain thinks strategically I love to think about what that North Star is and then work with the team to figure out how are we're going to achieve that," Woolsey said. "There's an excitement of starting something and not having the map, and then you get to help your team create the map to achieve that."
Now, in a full circle moment, she's "building again with a new strategy," at the University of Arkansas as chief strategy and communications officer for the Sam M. Walton College of Business.
"I'm right back where my career really did spark in a positive way," she said.
In 1997, just a few years after moving to Fayetteville from Texas, Doyle Z. Williams, dean of the UA's business school, recruited her to work as senior development officer at the University of Arkansas' College of Business Administration. While there, one of her greatest career successes came when she participated in the receipt of a $50 million gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation Inc. At the time it was the largest gift ever made to an American business...
- Log in to post comments
Link