It’s National Women’s Small Business Month, and I want to highlight the amazing women-owned small businesses that I know.
Get to know Laura Leopard, the CEO and Founder of Leopard Solutions.
Laura’s career path is so interesting as you’ll read about in her profile. She started businesses to help sustain her acting career – so becoming an entrepreneur was a necessity for her to pursue her love of acting.
Laura spearheaded Leopard Solutions’ growth and development over the company’s 18-year history and continues to push the envelope designing new systems and data points for their expanding client base.
As she says, “I look up to so many. All the firsts, all the women who went before me and stood up to bias and society’s conventions. Conventions that existed to keep them in their place. Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony, Madame Curie, Heddy Lamar, Amelia Earhart, Billie Jean King, Rosa Parks- it took enormous courage for all of them to succeed and to make it easier for all of us that came behind them.
Women confront bias everyday in one form or another. We are still teaching men that it is not right to ‘tell us to smile’ so there is still a long way to go. I have confronted sexism, at times even within my own company, which is a little rich. These women faced so many obstacles should be revered and remembered. It is up to us all to keep working toward equality in their name. We owe them that debt.”