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Director of Human Resources, The Garrett Cos.
lyssa Skarbek was unsure what she wanted to study when she enrolled at Purdue University. She just knew she wanted to work with people.
By her junior year, she had found her focus-organizational leadership-and two years later started her career in retail HR.
"The more I got immersed in the business, the more I realized this was the path I always wanted to choose- running the people side of the business," she said.
In 2018, she went to work for an HR consulting company whose clients included the Garrett Cos., a developer and builder of multifamily homes, with offices in Denver, Indianapolis and Greenwood. In 2019. when Garrett had 36 employees, she helped the company...