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Though she is now president and CEO of the company that her family has owned for over 80 years, Sharon Avent hasn't always been at the top of the Smead Manufacturing ladder. Leaving Hamline University in 1965 after just one year, she felt she was needed at Smead and took a job as a secretary.
"I started out at an hourly wage," says 53-yearold Avent. "My mother treated my brother and I like everyone else." But over the years, Avent has shown that she's not like everyone else. In July 1998, Avent took over the leadership of the Hastingsbased records management company from her mother, Ebba Hoffman.
Since then, Smead...