Face to Face - November 2002

Face to Face

Name: Heidi Loeb  

Title: Chief Executive Officer  

Company: Wingfield Nevada Group/Red Hawk at Wingfield Springs  

Location: Reno  

Years in Nevada: 1  

Years with Company: 1  

Type of Business:

An owner-operated residential real estate development company that has developed the master-planned golf community of Red Hawk at Wingfield Springs.  

Biggest Business Challenge:

Transitioning to Nevada from the East Coast with my two daughters, while successfully surviving the many challenges and demands of running a growing business. Part of that challenge is meeting the owners’ demands and keeping our customers happy at the same time.  

What do you like best about your job:

Working with family, and the challenging nature of working with many different personalities in the various business areas.

How do you spend your time when you’re not working:

 I enjoy "playing life" - spending time with my daughters, golfing, working out at the gym, cooking and photography.

What would you like your legacy to be:

I would like to be remembered as a successful businesswoman who was able to achieve balance between my career and family.

Favorite business book:

What Every Successful Woman Knows, by Janice Reals Ellig and William J. Morin.

Best Business Advice:

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Name: Steve Chartrand  

Title: President & CEO  

Company: Goodwill of Southern Nevada, Inc.  

Location: Las Vegas  

Years in Nevada: 27  

Years with Company: 16  

Type of Business:

Non-profit, charitable organization providing job training and job placement services for citizens with disabilities.  

Biggest Business Challenge:

Overcoming the combination of Goodwill’s very poor public image and its extremely limited human and financial resources.  

What do you like best about your job:

I appreciate the opportunity to work with and learn from extremely talented and committed people who have a passion for our mission and core values.  

How do you spend your time when you’re not working:

I stay actively involved in the interests and activities of my two teenage children, and I spend time with my wife.  

What would you like your legacy to be:

My legacy is to have developed a completely self-funded human service organization that will meet the needs of our citizens with disabilities for many generations to come.

Favorite business book:

The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge.

Best Business Advice:

Find your passion. Create core values and develop a team of results-oriented people with the same passion and vision.