Helena Duncan had spent 35 years in the financial industry, and she was ready for a change.
Her youngest son had gone off to college, and she and her husband were empty nesters.
“I decided I better quickly find something different to do with my life now that I didn’t have children to manage at home,” she says.
That’s when she had a conversation with Katie Britt, then president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama, whom she was working with on the transition team for Montgomery’s newly elected mayor, Steven Reed.
“We began our conversations there,” says Duncan, who went to work for the BCA three years ago.
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