Samsung Austin Semiconductor’s Annette Booker led 14nm operations growth, helped launch a company mentoring program, and mentors underrepresented students and women in STEM across Austin.

Harley-Davidson’s Jeanne Biber has driven product quality, regulatory compliance and millions in savings while championing women’s leadership and community mentoring.

Ingersoll Rand President Maria Blase champions manufacturing, diversity, and talent development, leading global power tools and lifting businesses while supporting community and women’s leadership initiatives.

Molson Coors’ Dacia Benoit leads global people development, driving supply chain learning strategies, standardization and performance improvement across teams worldwide. She also volunteers to support education, youth development and employment services.

Meena Banasiak, director of quality and food safety at Phoenix Closures, boosted collaboration, cut customer complaints 37%, improved food safety audits, and supports community and youth initiatives.

PPG’s Courtney Balliet advances innovative coatings, mentors future scientists, and supports community STEM and beautification efforts through volunteer leadership.

Director, New Product Development & Product Planning Emerson New product development ensures that our designs leverage our best technology offerings, can be manufactured efficiently in our facilities, and are marketable to our customers. I work with cross-functional teams to solve problems to enhance speed and quality to market our products and solutions – it’s energizing!

Quality Lab Manager Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. I am passionate about manufacturing because of the opportunities it gives. Manufacturing offers many different elements that are intriguing to people with different backgrounds of experience. It is amazing to see so many different departments and commodities go into a process and a great quality product come out.

Current Products Manager Value Analysis/Value Engineering Harley-Davidson Motor Company It’s thrilling to watch the creative design efforts of my team become manifested into physical product ready to delight our customers. Manufacturing also gives us the opportunity to practice continuous improvement and real-time problem solving. Kate joined Harley-Davidson Motor Company (H-D) in 2012 as a program…

Vice President, Central Project Management Exxon Mobil Global Projects Company Manufacturing is where the action is! Seeing ideas develop from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor is exciting and energizing. Inclusion and diversity have steadily improved over my 40 year career and I often wish I could start again given today’s transformative opportunities ahead…