Women in business.

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What does it mean to be a woman in business in the Beehive State? Well, let's just say that industriousness is just the start. Women are taking their seat at the table within every industry in the state, adding their unique perspective and know-how to established businesses--and to their own startups. The following pages highlight just a few of the successful women whose increasing influence is helping strengthen the organizations and industries they work within.

Cindy Crane,

President and CEO, Rocky Mountain Power

ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER

Look inside Rocky Mountain Power today and you'll discover a team of over 3,000 employees motivated by a changing energy landscape to work in entirely new ways. Look closer and you'll see Rocky Mountain Power striking new partnerships to support the growing needs of customers, communities and cities. You'll see a company making bold new investments in renewable resources, new transmission and state-of-the-art operating practices while pledging to keep Utah energy prices low now and into the future.

At the heart of Rocky Mountain Power's evolution is President and CEO, CINDY CRANE, a life-long energy pioneer with a get-it-done' vigor that's been her career trademark. Having spent a majority of her professional career working with engineers, coal miners, power plant operators and renewable energy experts, Crane's best known for her unique ability to visibly set a course of action and galvanize the best talent and resources to drive sweeping business change. In fact, Crane has been the go-to leader on many of the company's most transformational initiatives including the adoption of new enterprise-wide solutions and advancing the company's decarbonization strategy and building the company's five large wind plants in Wyoming.

"Leadership isn't a title. It's clearly naming a way forward and inspiring trust and motivation in others to make it happen," Crane says. Building trust and motivation is central to Crane's leadership agenda as she looks for new ways to foster and reward a workforce that's tasked with being ever-more nimble, imaginative and customer focused. "Working in an industry and organization that's undergoing seismic change can be daunting. It's my job to help my fellow employees navigate these headwinds while balancing work, life, family and community obligations," says Crane who believes she must focus on her customers and lead her employees as though their lives depend on her success.

Crane is responsible for providing low cost electricity, reliable service and meeting the needs of 1.1 million customers as well as overseeing the company's regulatory and legislative affairs in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. Before being appointed president in 2014, Crane held a variety of leadership positions for Rocky Mountain Power's parent company, PacifiCorp.

Teresa Whitehead

CEO, Citywide

CITYWIDE

Since joining Citywide Home Loans in 2009, Teresa's unsurpassed leadership ability has driven progression throughout the company, and the mortgage industry as a whole. Citywide, with Teresa at the helm, has managed to navigate through a slew of regulatory changes without losing sight of what matters most, the homeowners. Teresa has worked in the financial services sector for over 30 years, but found a passion for mortgages about 20 years ago. According to Teresa, there is nothing quite as rewarding as being a trusted advisor for individuals making the largest financial commitment of their lives.

TERESA has a thorough knowledge of all aspects of manufacturing a loan, and has an uncanny ability to structure the most complicated transactions. This dedication to challenges and doing right by borrowers, has given rise to a client-centric culture at Citywide. This culture, dubbed Citywide's "soul", is very attractive to highly skilled sales people and innovative operations personnel, giving rise to the company's impressive growth. In 2009, at the height of the financial meltdown, Teresa knew that the mortgage...