2015 Automotive News 100 Leading Women

What attracted you to the auto industry? The challenge of it. When I went to Kettering, it was 100 percent co-op. I was in high school and you had to have a sponsor to go to the school. I got an interview at General Motors, and at the time, it seemed as good as anything else. I was 18. I left the industry and worked for a consulting firm that served a lot of different industries, but I found that they significantly lacked the challenge of the automotive industry, so I came back because the business models just seemed so simplistic.