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This year, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management celebrates its 70th anniversary. And because we recognize that we owe our seventy years of achievement in graduate education and leadership development to our more than 10,000 students and alumni, we have invited current students and alumni to “Share Your Lake Forest MBA Impact Story.”

We have received many engaging stories explaining how the Leadership MBA program has impacted our students’ and alumni’s professional and/or personal lives. Here, we share an inspiring success story from one of our alumni. Our LFGSM alumni and students can still submit their stories through April 30, 2016.

There are 500 CEO positions across the Fortune 500. Currently, only 26 of those offices are occupied by female executives.

Women’s share of managerial and professional positions has been steadily increasing – from 30.6% of such positions in 1968 to over half of them in 2013. Still, the same pace is not reflected in the upper echelons of senior corporate leadership. Why are less than 5 percent of these prestigious and powerful positions held by women? Clearly, corporate America still has a long way to go in terms of gender equity.

This year, we are celebrating our 70^th anniversary. Lake Forest Graduate School of Management opened its doors in 1946 as the Lake Forest College Industrial Management Institute (IMI) with twenty-seven students. Today, more than 500 students are enrolled in the Leadership MBA program at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management (LFGSM) and even more business leaders are participating in our Corporate Learning Solutions programs.

We owe our seventy years of graduate education and leadership development to more than 10,000 students and alumni. To celebrate our 70^th anniversary, we want to hear your stories about the impact of your LFGSM degree.