In 2002 Gwen Hostnik (Former Marketing Manager for Contracting Business) and I were at breakfast at the AHR event in Chicago. We were discussing the fact that there were very few women in the HVACR industry and decided that we should do something about it.
We wanted to spread the word that this is an industry for women and provide support and mentorship for women in the HVAC industry. I explained that, until the 1920s, secretaries were mostly men. The industry flipped from men to women and now most secretaries are women. I dreamed that we could do the same thing in the HVACR field.