GIVING BACK
ARTICLE LISA SCHREINER PHOTOGRAPHY LIFE N LIGHT
THIRTY YEARS AGO, KATE ISLER, HAVING JUST COMPLETED HER SCHOOLING, LOOKED AT A MAP, ZEROED IN ON THE WEST COAST AND PICKED SEATTLE AS HER NEXT HOME. After a few years that included meeting her husband and some years in Asia, she began working for an ad agency and went on to work for a local tech company looking to open an internal ad agency, Microsoft. Over the next two decades, Kate lived in Dubai, London, Africa, India, Germany, and in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. After returning to Redmond to run an international marketing campaign with unprecedented success, she decided to move to the startup world. Kate serves as the CEO and president of Daysaver, Inc. which provides technology to propose appointments directly from
Passion & Parity
the health care provider to a patient’s calendar. Despite all of her professional success, there was a great passion in Kate’s life waiting to be discovered. Several years ago, Kate was out for a glass of wine with Nickie Smith, a friend from her time in the UK who had moved to Seattle. Nickie asked why Americans didn’t celebrate International Women’s Day. “I had no reasonable answer—and Be Bold was born,” Kate says. Their first event was held four years ago in the
ONE WOMAN’S DEDICATION TO CULTURAL CHANGE AND GENDER PARITY
basement of WeWork in Seattle with 80 attendees. Since then, the event has grown to a sellout crowd of more than 500 attendees, held at
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