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Q & A with Kathleen:
Q: What attracted you to accounting and consulting?
My mother graduated from Texas Tech University with a BBA degree in accounting. So you could say that accounting is in my DNA.
Q: What do you think the future holds for businesses in the Fresno area?
Agriculture is obviously the backbone of the Fresno area with food processing, manu-facturing and distribution companies that also devel-oped around the agricultural activities. Fresno needs to continue diversifying itself toward non-agricultural indus-tries in order to move away from a dependency on just one sector.
Q: What’s the toughest business challenge you have ever faced?
I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in accounting, but I also have a degree from The University of Houston in management and marketing. At one point I was a district manager overseeing four department stores, at the same time I was a buyer, and was then asked to open a new store at the same time I was juggling my other management responsibilities.
As the buyer, I also had to travel in order to buy boyswear, menswear and big & tall merchandise for all the stores. Buying the correct merchandise was crucial, because the merchandise must sell in order to have the money to pay the employees and business overhead. It was a lot of responsibility for my age. |
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to
know the difference."
~ Reinhold Niebuhr |
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 Getting
personal...
Q: Where did you grow up? What was it like then or how has it changed?
I grew up in Texas and it seems to just keep getting bigger! Austin, Texas highways cannot keep up with the growth.
Q: Other than the present, which historical era would you like to have lived in and why?
The Roaring Twenties because
it was the decade of prosperity and optimism with a powerful economy until late 1929 when the stock market crashed.
It was also a time of fashion, rapid progress for automobiles and trains. I imagine those were very exciting times.
Q: What is a main lesson in life you have learned?
Listen to what the other person is saying and their point of view before you respond with your own opinion.
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