073: Teresa Jacobsson – Alaskan Women driven with a purpose to help Alaska Native Corporations and Tribes succeed

In today's episode, we turn the tables around and interview another service provider to the government contracting space, Teresa Jacobsson, CEO of JW Industries Group, an Alaska Native spent the better part of a career serving the people and communities of Alaska as the founder and president of the nonprofit organization, the Alaska Tribal Administrators Association established in 2013 to support successful and healthy tribal administration and Alaska, the Alaska women's leadership forum, which teaches engaging and empowering women to lead Alaska and the Jacobsson Foundation. Mrs. Jacobson extends her schedule way beyond the typical nine to five job. In her pass she's held positions as CEO, business manager, vice president division director and contract administrator for several ANCS a corporations tribes and tribal entities today, Teresa continues to help the Alaska Native corporations develop strategies and a plan for promoting successful and healthy tribes, as well as utilizing their socio-economic status to build businesses. And today's interview, we discuss some misconceptions. People typically have about ANC's what areas she could improve in her own business. Some of the challenges of living in Alaska, how and why she started so many organizations and much more