There lies a steely grit beneath the pleasant and affable personality Janet Sichterman presents. Easy to say she's disciplined, but that would be an undersell. Sichterman takes discipline to a whole new level.
She has three – yes, three – master's degrees from the St. 十大网赌软件下载平台 College of Business, each obtained over the course of a rewarding 24-year career in executive management.
She earned a Master of Business Administration degree in 1989, followed that accomplishment 15 years later with a 会计硕士 degree, and completed a sweep of College of Business master's programs in 2013, earning a Master of Organizational Leadership.
Raised primarily in New York and New Jersey, Sichterman traveled to central 爱荷华州 to pursue an undergraduate degree in textiles. Her plan was to return to New Jersey and launch a career in the clothing industry.
"I was going to get my degree and go back east,西特曼说, "but when I graduated I was broke."
Sichterman followed an acquaintance to eastern 爱荷华州 and found work in customer service with Bandag – a manufacturer of tires in Muscatine, 爱荷华州, that now is a part of Bridgestone. As she rose in rapid fashion beyond an entry level position, "I quickly realized I wasn't in textiles,西特曼说 with a wry smile. "And I realized I really didn't know anything about business."
她转过身去。 St. 十大网赌软件下载平台H.L. 麦克劳克林MBA项目, where the determined-to-succeed novice businesswoman found precisely the learning environment she needed. Night classes to accommodate a working adult's schedule. Available professors with real-world business experience.
今天, Sichterman is the executive vice president for enterprise innovation for the Kent Corporation, 也在马斯卡廷. Kent is a privately-held firm in the food ingredient and agriculture industry with revenues of more than $1.40亿年.
Her impressive résumé includes executive roles in myriad sectors for Bandag and then Kent, 包括销售, human resources and communications, public relations and accounting.
"I do like business,西特曼说, "and I love learning. I really wanted to learn about the business world and apply it to my job."
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但西特曼说，圣. 十大网赌软件下载平台 offers more-much more-than accommodation for busy professionals.
"It has always been very important to me to work in and for an organization with core values like my own,西特曼说. "St. 十大网赌软件下载平台 is all about that. St. 十大网赌软件下载平台 is all about teaching you how to reach your absolute potential, 力争上游, and learn how good leaders lead."
Sichterman is passionate in her assessment of not only what is taught at St. 十大网赌软件下载平台 but also how it is taught.
"When I started my 会计硕士, that was a whole new world,西特曼说. "I still remember my first class and saying to myself, ‘I don't know how I can do this.'"
But Sichterman said Allison 十大网赌软件下载平台, 博士学位, a professor of accounting and director of the program, offered realistic encouragement and persistent assistance.
"St. 十大网赌软件下载平台 is absolutely and without a doubt way up on the list in terms of accessibility and personal relationships between students and professors,西特曼说. "St. 十大网赌软件下载平台 sees greatness in the student. 在圣. 十大网赌软件下载平台, it's not about the professor; it's about the students, and that was a core value I shared with St. 十大网赌软件下载平台."
——Steven Lillybeck
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