Carrie Onward
And learned a thing or 40.
Carrie looked up often during the date. The city’s striking, awe-inspiring skyline features towering buildings, some standing even taller than Tom’s 6-foot-6 frame.
Carrie Buchwald has been focusing straight ahead and from terra firma these days, steering the Waukegan-based neighborhood community center Beacon Place as its board chair and serving as senior vice president of the Lake Forest Center for Leadership at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management (LFGSM).
“Two special organizations,” says the 58-year-old Buchwald, a Lincolnshire resident and mother of two (Ben, 24, and Emily, 18) with husband Tom. “It’s been a ball for me, working with the corporate education team at the graduate school and providing solutions and leadership development for businesses. I was so lucky to have received the opportunity, and then, a year in, to be able to start my pursuit of an MBA degree at the school. As for a place like Beacon Place, it