From Boston:  Helping Those Who Help

Wendy Gutterson supports life supporters

Wendy Gutterson has worked in the health care industry for over 20 years. Armed with a graduate degree in health care administration from Simmons College and a burning desire to support those who save lives and serve their communities every day, Gutterson worked for such major New England medical...

As an operational risk consultant, I encounter clients who have no business continuity plans—“that takes too much time and money” and/or “we don’t have anyone on staff who knows how to do that kind of stuff”—and who have opted instead to create plans around disaster response and/or crisis management.  Sometimes such plans are emergency management oriented, with a fat binder full of procedures, and in such situations, what can be done to...

By 1999, I had spent almost two decades as a manufacturer’s representative in the lawn & garden and hardware industry. It taught me many aspects of marketing and design in terms of packaging and promotion. It was then that I was going through a divorce from a 29-year marriage, which was the start of an early on-depression. In the following three years, my mom was diagnosed with colon cancer, my dad attempted suicide over the thought of...