As the owner of Konhaus Print & Marketing in Camp Hill, Barr leans into lessons she learned in Girl Scouts to this day, and she uses her business skills to help the next generation of leaders.

You can plan your day, but your day is not always going to be what you planned. The adage holds especially true for Barbara Kovacs in her role as director of the City of York’s Bureau of Health. She just marked 11 years in the position.

NRF panel discusses how mentorship is changing for women in 2021 and beyond

The U.S. Small Business Administration has launched a free e-learning platform for female entrepreneurs.

Fresh out of work as a result of the pandemic, Kristen Pucci took what she had learned from her career in business development and marketing and founded her own consulting business; a risk that the 27-year-old entrepreneur says has paid off.

When Jenny Englerth was a preteen, she showed horses. She had excellent trainers and coaches, but Englerth especially admired the grooms, the people who cared for the horses. “They were horse whisperers,” she said.

Optimism and resiliency are just two attributes required to survive this COVID rollercoaster and Alicia Miller and Corrie Leister have proven to be masters of both. The entrepreneurs opened their respective businesses this year in the ever-evolving Mechanicsburg area and each used their down time wisely as they prepared to re-open to the public.

Gail Faulkner, the recently retired CEO of the Faulkner Auto Group of Mechanicsburg, has been honored as one of the 100 most influential women in the North American Auto Industry.

The former CFO of Penn Medicine’s Chester County Hospital will be taking the role of CFO of the Philadelphia system’s Lancaster General Health hospital at the end of the month.

A local human resources professional is set to be the new executive director of the Lancaster-based Central Penn Business Group on Health.

Material Matters, an Elizabethtown environmental consulting firm, has rearranged its leadership team, with founder and former CEO Trudy Johnston moving to the role of managing director and Michelle McCall taking over as CEO.

M&T Bank has a new central and western Pennsylvania region president in Carlisle resident Nora Habig, taking over for Stephen A. Foreman, who retired on Oct. 9 at the end of a 35-year career with the Buffalo, New York-based financial services company.

Lancaster-based community nonprofit ASSETS is transitioning out of a joint leadership model with the resignation of co-CEO Jonathan Coleman, who said he will move closer to his wife’s family in Syracuse.

The Conference for Women will be held virtually Oct. 29 featuring inspirational and empowering speakers who will deliver talks and workshops aimed to equip viewers with innovative solutions.

Kim Alvarez, 37, was named vice president of donor relations at United Way of York County in March. She has spent more than 14 years in philanthropy work, mostly in York County, previously serving as director of development and interim vice president of philanthropy at SpiriTrust Lutheran. She also worked in annual and special giving for WellSpan Health before that.