Honoring

those at the top

How does one quantify excellence in business?

It’s a broad question with many answers. One answer Prairie Business has found is with its annual Leaders & Legacies awards, the magazine’s most prestigious honor given to top executives in the region.

Korrie Wenzel, publisher of Prairie Business, explained it best when the magazine started this award category in 2019: The award recognizes executives “for the great things they have done in business, whether in recent years (Leaders) or over a lifetime (Legacies).”

Prairie Business received a number of nominations for the 2022 awards, but we also nominated a few individuals. After reviewing the career highlights and accomplishments of a number of people – and recognizing the good work that each nominee has done and continues to do – we have selected nine exemplary business leaders in the region for this year’s awards.

They are profiled in this issue and will be honored at a ceremony later this year, along with other Prairie Business award winners – those recognized in Top 25 Women in Business and 40 Under 40.

This is my third time being a part of the Leaders & Legacies awards, and every year the candidates have been individuals with impressive credentials, the selected recipients truly worthy of this award.

Same this year.

This year’s recipients come from the industries of advertising and marketing, architecture and engineering, construction, financial services and health care.

Unlike the magazine’s other award contests, which recognize exemplary leaders and other business professionals, Leaders & Legacies honor only top executives, past and present. As you’ll see from this year’s cast, each of the award winners is a prime example of what it means to put one’s best foot forward, day after day, year after year, to lead and impact one’s own life and career but, more importantly, those around them. They are at the top of their businesses because they are, every day, at the top of their game.

Enough said – well, almost.

Congratulations to this year’s Leaders & Legacies recipients. We thank them, one and all, for doing what they do every day to make this region a better place for each of us to live and work.

Now, on to the profiles.

Andrew Weeks

I look forward to hearing from you at aweeks@prairiebusinessmagazine.com or 701-780-1276.

PUBLISHER

KORRIE WENZEL

AD DIRECTOR STACI LORD

EDITOR

ANDREW WEEKS

CIRCULATION MANAGER BETH BOHLMAN

LAYOUT DESIGN JAMIE HOLTE

ACCOUNT MANAGER

Business magazine is published monthly by the Grand Forks Herald and Forum Communications Company with offices at 375 2nd Avenue North, Grand Forks, ND 58203. Subscriptions are available free of charge. Back issue quantities are limited and subject to availability ($2/copy prepaid). The opinions of writers featured in Prairie Business are their own. Unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, artwork are encouraged but will not be returned without a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

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