Gwen has been a practitioner of the persuasive arts for more than 20 years and an entrepreneur since 2002. On behalf of her clients, she breaks down big, complex problems into little parts and then helps find solutions to the little parts. She forges new connections where none existed before. She loves finding the right word for the right place. She leads horses to water and convinces them that drinking would be a great idea.
Gwen has been a two-time Portland City Club Member of the Year, was named one or Portland Business Journal’s “40 under 40,” and served as the chair of the Portland Design Commission from 2011 to 2015. She is currently a board member of the Mark Prairie Historical Society and a volunteer at her child’s school. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College in Claremont, California.
While she named her company Parachute Strategies for reasons she’s happy to explain, Gwen doesn’t understand why anyone would willingly jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
