Jill Campbell owes a remarkable career to a mentor who “saw something in me I didn’t see.”
That man, Curt Hockemeier, was her boss when 22-year-old Jill took her first job at Cox Communications right out of college. She was happy in her job in communications (traditional for women), writing newsletters and working on event planning.
Curt told her she should move into operationswhere there were virtually no women. “He kept needling me about it and supported me to get my MBA. Little by little, he gave me more of the operations. Then he went to Harvard to get his EMBA and he let me run the system. I never looked back,” she recalls.
