Anne Jordan

My career journey has taken me through multiple industries and leadership roles. I started in sales at a car dealership and worked my way up to finance manager, eventually becoming finance director of a mid-sized dealer group where I served for about 8 years. Growing up on a family farm, I learned economics and business principles alongside my dad, which gave me a foundation that made my first economics class feel like something I had already lived. For 8 years, I was the only woman in high-level sales management, working with sales managers and GMs in a male-dominated environment. I've owned an insurance agency since November 2019, which I'm currently in the process of selling. After getting my MBA a couple years ago, I founded Empowering Experiences because I realized how important it is to give women a voice. Through this venture, my co-collaborator and I have hosted monthly speaking events for 2 years where 3 women share their experiences each month. What we've learned is powerful: when we get a group of women in a room who all look different, young and old, from all sorts of cultures and backgrounds, and they start telling their stories, we realize we're all the same. Those barriers drop and women realize they're not alone. I've also been president of a nonprofit since 2001, where we collect money, buy meals, and give to organizations to bless people while respecting their dignity. Last year, we provided 3,500 meals to our local community. My most notable achievement is having the ability to give voice to those who don't know they have one, creating platforms that honor and respect people where they are while letting them know their voice matters.