Next Level Leader

Brian Souza is CEO and founder of ProductivityDrivers - an innovative corporate training company that specializes in building world-class, high performance teams and organizations. Souza is also the author of The New York Times Bestseller, The Weekly Coaching Conversation. As a respected thought leader in how to build high performance teams, coaching, leadership, and sales, Souza is highly sought after as a keynote speaker and management consultant by top companies and organizations worldwide. Clients include SAS, Google, Boeing, In-N-Out Burger, ServiceNow, StateFarm, American Eagle Outfitters, AstraZeneca, and AbbVie just to name a few. Souza and his work have been featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers around the world including The European Business Review, Fast Company, and Success Magazine. His first critically acclaimed book, Become Who You Were Born to Be (Random House, 2007), has been published in multiple languages around the world.

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Clark Hodge escaped the confines of a corporate high-tech career to found and lead Chase the Music, a non-profit. Chase the Music gives children battling critical conditions hope, strength, love, and joy through the power of music. Very personal, original musical experiences from soloists to orchestral. From didgeridoo to dance. From bedside to auditorium. The shared experience of a Chase the Music premiere is inspirational and moving for all who take part and share in the event. Find out more at chasethemusic.org, or contact Clark directly at [email protected].

Seven years in the tech industry? A kinesiology and English major? From the outside the path may not appear cohesive, but Jason Rathe relishes the opportunity to be the owner Field Outdoor Spaces – a two million dollar landscape company serving "small yard" neighborhoods in the Twin Cities.

In 2001, Jason quit his career at a local telecommunications company to find a career he could pour himself into. After some reflection, he realized all the jobs he loved were outside jobs building things. "Landscaping" met all his criteria – creative, life-long learning, helping people find quality of life, and ability to be a teacher and mentor others.

After getting his Masters in Horticulture at the University of Minnesota, he took a deep dive and started Field Outdoor Spaces with his partner in 2005. The mission of Field has always been about creating the company he and his team most want to work in. Empowerment. Transparency. Accomplishing great things with people you love.

ReBecca Koenig Roloff is the 11th president of St. Catherine University. A North Dakota native, Roloff is a 1976 graduate of St. Kate's, chaired the University's Board (1991–1995) and has been an active alumna. She also earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

During a distinguished career in the private and nonprofit sectors, she has demonstrated extraordinary leadership, commitment to inclusion and ability to achieve financial stability through fundraising, while at the same time serving the community.

She has been recognized as a caring and results-oriented leader who works with people, not over them, to achieve success for the organization she is leading. She was featured on the cover of Business Week as one of the nation's "Fast Track Kids" early in her career and has been profiled in numerous national and regional publications.

She came to St. Catherine University from the YWCA of Minneapolis, where she served as president and chief executive officer for 11 years and was responsible for leading the organization with a mission to eliminate racism and empower women and girls. Under her leadership, the YWCA Minneapolis successfully completed a capital campaign, grew its revenue substantially and significantly increased the diversity of its board of directors.

Formerly, she was a senior vice president and a member of the senior leadership team at American Express Financial Advisors (now Ameriprise), held leadership positions at Pillsbury Company (both in Minneapolis) and was a grain merchant for Cargill in Texas. She has served on the boards of C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., the Minneapolis Downtown Council Executive Committee and Allina Health.

Her leadership has been recognized with national and community accolades, including the New York City YWCA Academy of Women Achiever's Award, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Leading With Spirit Award, the Twin Cities Business Outstanding Corporate Director Award and St. Catherine University's Outstanding Alumnae and Alexandrine Awards.

Roloff was named the Favorite MN Role Model for Women in Education in the Minnesota Women's Press 2018 What Women Want survey.

Active in the community, she currently serves as a trustee for the Charles and Ellora Allis Educational Foundation, the Women's College Coalition, and the Minnesota Campus Compact. She also chaired the boards of The Blake School and The Children's Theatre Company and is the recent past president of the International Women's Forum of Minnesota and the Minnesota Women's Economic Roundtable.

She enjoys reading, needlepoint, playing the piano, cooking, and travel. She published her first children's book in 1996 and completed her 10th triathlon in 2018.

Host Craig Pratt sits down with Joe Cavanaugh, the founder and CEO of Youth Frontiers. Joe started this nonprofit organization 32 years ago. It has since evolved into one of the most successful organizations serving youth in the Midwest.