Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Moving on to Another Opportunity

In addition to her ergonomic know-how and customer savvy, Rebecca identified another way to grow her business: by promoting the fact that it is owned and run by women. As diversity has become a buzz word in the corporate and government worlds, Neutral Posture was—and remains—the only certified woman-owned seating manufacturer in the United States.

Rebecca was first introduced to the benefit of being a woman-owned company when one of her corporate customers asked her to gain certification for Neutral Posture through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). When she first checked it out, the certification process seemed daunting, but it also seemed like a huge opportunity. So she made the decision ...