My career plans involve becoming a business leader in a small to mid-size company. I would like to demonstrate my leadership capabilities by growing the company to be a leading company and establish it as one with a culture of service to the community. But as a woman in business I would like to do more than run a successful business. Being a leader means taking a bigger role in the community and involves more than fundraising or putting up football stadiums, but in doing things like helping those less fortunate including the homeless. Women have a lot to offer because we take a different approach to problem-solving and decision-making. I intend to use my skills to do exactly that, change peoples’ lives, improving society and not just myself. In this way I hope to become a role model for other women and an inspiration to those who are less fortunate by encouraging them. We need some heroes, and I hope that by helping others I can be their hero in a sense as well as inspire them to be heroes to others. I am applying for this scholarship because I need additional scholarships to attend the school that I know will give me the education I need to be able to pursue and accomplish these goals I am planning to attend either the Carlson School of Management and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota or the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota with a major in business or actuarial science. I would like to start on these goals immediately after