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Amanda Martin’s Studyville concept has transformed the tutoring experience
Like a great symphony, Amanda Martin’s career has had a lot of twists and turns but plenty of high notes—all leading to a crescendo,...
Tessa Holloway’s measure of success is better life outcomes for children
When Tessa Holloway was approached in 2006 to purchase a child care center in Port Allen, she was a manager at Blockbuster with no...
Meredith Hathorn is the legal mind behind some of Louisiana’s biggest public projects
Woman’s Hospital. The Port of New Orleans. Ochsner Health. LCMC Health. The University Medical Center in New Orleans. The expansions of I-10 in Baton...
Melissa Dotson pays it forward, helping others make their journey
While growing up in Metairie, Melissa Dotson thought she was destined for a career in medicine. Her mother even sent her to Latin camp...
Rachel DiResto guides communities through recovery and resiliency
One of Louisiana’s most challenging moments led to a formative period in Rachel DiResto’s career.
It was the mid-2000s, and DiResto was working as vice...
Resolute litigator Lana Crump also advises her colleagues on best practices
Is AI right for a law firm?
It’s one of the many critical decisions that Lana Crump has tackled in her role as a partner...
Jodi Conachen’s ‘guiding star’? What’s best for the patient
Jodi Conachen’s childhood career goal was simple: “I wanted to matter.”
Though her aspirations changed over the years while growing up in Baton Rouge, Conachen...
2024 Company of the Year: Bringing order to the law
Few social institutions feel the pressure of high expectations like law enforcement, and fewer still do it while also juggling a diminishing workforce. If...
2024 Company of the Year: A prosperous path
In retrospect, 2008 probably wasn’t the best year for the managers of Pala Group to borrow money and begin transitioning into an employee-owned company.
The...
2024 Young Businessperson of the Year: All hail the queen
The Rolling Stones' She’s a Rainbow blasts from the speakers of the Raising Cane’s River Center as Jaime Glas Odom glides down a red...
2024 Executive of the Year: Putting people first
Over the course of its storied history, few events have altered Louisiana like Hurricane Katrina.
The mammoth storm slammed into the coast in August 2005,...
2024 Hall of Fame: Piloting success
Nannette Noland has always been a bit ahead of her time. Her father taught her how to drive a car once she could see...
2024 Hall of Fame [posthumous]: Open-door policy
A ballroom filled with Hollywood heavyweights was a far cry from the ballfields of the late George A. Foster Jr.’s tiny Louisiana hometown of...
Entrepreneur: Peyton Finical and Joshua Crowdus
Garbage can get expensive.
Ask any apartment complex, higher education institution or manufacturing facility with a roll-off and a waste management contract. Filled dumpsters require...
What Stephen Waguespack learned from a failed campaign for governor, and where he goes...
In a field of seven major candidates, he was the last one in. Then the head of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, he...
1 Key to Success
An avid outdoor sportsperson for most of his life, Logan Meaux noticed a problem with booking hunting and fishing trips—there was no centralized marketplace...
Entrepreneur: Speed Bancroft
The Speedy Eats founder: You have to be 'tenacious' about raising capital and never let quitting enter your mind.
Entrepreneur: Thomas Schumacher
Entrepreneur: Thomas Schumacher, inspired working in real estate along 30A, launched River Homes, a property management and vacation rentals company.
Passion: Adam Beary
Adam Beary, an avid painter, is the CEO and president of Bear Process Safety.
3 Things to Know: Steven Procopio
Steven Procopio, the recently named president of PAR, has been with the research policy institute since 2014.
