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Mastering the Business of Medicine by Sharla A. Paul 
From MD to MBA: The Next Step in Patient Care? by Faye Goolrick |
Gone Krogering
Holsclaw knows something about coming up through the ranks. In the summer of 1997, she was named vice president of merchandising for Kroger Food Stores, twenty-one years after starting off as a Kroger cashier seeking extra money while taking marketing classes at Emory. The promotion caused a relocation from Atlanta to Indianapolis, where she became just one of a handful of top women business executives in that Midwestern city. So unique is Holsclaw's position and her story that she was featured as part of a cover story on successful female executives in the March 1998 issue of Indianapolis Woman magazine. The article examined the "glass-ceiling" phenomenon faced by female executives. "If there is a sense of a good old boys network in Indianapolis, I can tell you it's the same wherever you are," she is quoted. "If you don't network and know the right people, regardless of gender, you must find creative ways to put your face in front of people." The article also examined another common concern of career women-juggling job and family. That aspect was especially appropriate for Holsclaw, a single mother to twelve-year-old Sara. "Sara has given me many gifts, but one of the most precious is balance," she says. "I don't put pressure on myself to be everywhere. I have enough self-confidence that I don't feel I have to prove myself to anybody by going to this dinner or that event." Holsclaw allows that it's a long way from being a part-time cashier and student, who was able to go to Emory in part because her father, longtime Emory photographer Red Holsclaw, was on staff. "Dad said if you can make the grades then this is your place of education, and if you don't you'll have to pay for your own," she says. Holsclaw got into Emory, kept making the grades, and due to the encouragement of a Kroger regional manager, kept rising in the ranks. "I think I had the best education by combining job and classes," she says. "The real world experience meant a lot, but I don't think I could have achieved as much by doing one without the other." G.F. |
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