Nancy Steele profiled in Forbes article on women who excel in and beyond the boardroom. http://onforb.es/zyf5n3
Some aren’t (or don’t want to be) as spontaneous as Danicki or as physically intense as Castillo. But they’re just as extreme. Like Executive Director of the Council for Watershed Health, Nancy Steele. By day, Steele is responsible for the Los Angeles regions’ trusted hub for essential watershed research and analysis. She manages a team of 17 and a budget of $3 million with the ultimate goal of making Los Angeles a sustainable region. Challenge enough, right?
By night, however, Steele becomes a beekeeper. No, that’s not a typo. She’s a beekeeper. When Steele leaves her Executive Director hat at the office, she dons a protective one so she can manage 200 bees and 60 beehives alongside her husband in one of the most bee-friendly areas in the U.S. – Los Angeles. On weekends, you can find this successful woman at a co-op or farmer’s market selling her minimally-processed (and what sounds to be absolutely delicious) honey. Whereas some of the women in this story need an adrenaline-heavy past time, Steele prefers to remain connected to the earth and grounded to the land around her. It’s true that beekeeping is hard work and involves odd working hours. And when you couple that with the role she has at the Council, it’s all the more tedious – but Steele would never trade it.
