Name: Heidi Loeb
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Company: Wingfield Nevada Group/Red Hawk at Wingfield Springs
Location: Reno
Years in Nevada: 1
Years with Company: 1
Type of Business:
An owner-operated residential real estate development company that has developed the master-planned golf community of Red Hawk at Wingfield Springs.
Biggest Business Challenge:
Transitioning to Nevada from the East Coast with my two daughters, while successfully surviving the many challenges and demands of running a growing business. Part of that challenge is meeting the owners’ demands and keeping our customers happy at the same time.
What do you like best about your job:
Working with family, and the challenging nature of working with many different personalities in the various business areas.
How do you spend your time when you’re not working:
I enjoy “playing life” – spending time with my daughters, golfing, working out at the gym, cooking and photography.
What would you like your legacy to be:
I would like to be remembered as a successful businesswoman who was able to achieve balance between my career and family.
Favorite business book:
What Every Successful Woman Knows, by Janice Reals Ellig and William J. Morin.
Best Business Advice:
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Name: Steve Chartrand
Title: President & CEO
Company: Goodwill of Southern Nevada, Inc.
Location: Las Vegas
Years in Nevada: 27
Years with Company: 16
Type of Business:
Non-profit, charitable organization providing job training and job placement services for citizens with disabilities.
Biggest Business Challenge:
Overcoming the combination of Goodwill’s very poor public image and its extremely limited human and financial resources.
What do you like best about your job:
I appreciate the opportunity to work with and learn from extremely talented and committed people who have a passion for our mission and core values.
How do you spend your time when you’re not working:
I stay actively involved in the interests and activities of my two teenage children, and I spend time with my wife.
What would you like your legacy to be:
My legacy is to have developed a completely self-funded human service organization that will meet the needs of our citizens with disabilities for many generations to come.
Favorite business book:
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge.
Best Business Advice:
Find your passion. Create core values and develop a team of results-oriented people with the same passion and vision.
