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...eventually left CH2M HILL because I felt I wasn't going to advance any further. I moved to my current firm, Nielsen-Wurster Group, a 250-person management-consulting firm based at that time in New York City, that does risk management and dispute resolution. When I started working on the West Coast, around the late '80s, the project manager called the president and said, "We would really, really like to hire your company, but only under one condition. That you don't put Pat Galloway on the job, because we just really are not going to be able...
...looking around thinking, "So when is the guy going to walk in?" The first couple of meetings were difficult, but as the project went on we became good friends. Two years ago, when he retired, he said, "Would there be a place for me at Nielsen-Wurster?" I said, "You would work for me, a woman?" "You know," he said, "you taught me a lesson. It doesn't matter if you're male or female, as long as you can get the job done. I've learned a lot from you." He's now the managing director of our Asia...
Galloway is CEO of the Nielsen-Wurster Group, a management-consulting firm, and former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the first woman ever to serve in that office
...battle for hearts and minds, is apparently being won. A top leader of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap gang was quickly taken out, and as U.S. troops left, scores of locals showed up to regretfully send them off. During Wednesday's farewell ceremonies, U.S. Brigadier General Donald Wurster declared the mission "an absolute success." In a piece of agitprop reminiscent of mid-century American police actions, the U.S. is both leaving and returning simultaneously: in the same breath as declaring victory, American officials said 80 to 100 special forces agents will remain in Basilan through October, when more U.S. soldiers will...
Under the top-gun command of Air Force Brigadier General Donald Wurster, head of all special operations in the Pacific, Army special forces, backed by commandos from other services, were setting up quarters last week for a 6- to 12-month stay at a camp on Mindanao, just a boat ride across the narrow strait from Basilan. Philippine counterparts are already taking delivery of U.S. equipment, including a C-130 cargo plane and eight Huey helicopters...