Fierce Females in Package Printing: Lori Campbell — Leveraging Diversity of Thought for Future Success

Campbell: I believe my challenges were self-imposed. I was fortunate in a lot of ways. I had a great role model in my mother, who worked in a very heavily male-dominated manufacturing industry and rose to become VP in her company. I was always very fortunate to work for a boss who had no problem giving women opportunities, so plenty of strong women were working for him. I recognized that, and I’m grateful for it.

I had taken it as my challenge to be instrumental in suggesting that we crawl out from our four walls to really see what was going on in our industry, and Cindy White also encouraged me to join TLMI. I can be introverted and shy, so I sometimes need to stretch myself a bit to get involved and work with people I don’t know. After Cindy convinced me of the value of TLMI, I went to my first meeting. Being part of the organization has made a huge difference both personally and professionally. TLMI gave us that outside perspective — allowing us to see how to deal with increasing competition with more intense pricing and brought more diversity to our thinking.