Patricia Woertz- A Pat On Back As A Business Woman!

Patricia.A. Woertz was born on March 17,1953, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She held so many powerful positions in the most powerful companies. Patricia was named as one the ten most powerful women in the world by Fortune magazine in 2000. Many of them think business and women can’t go together. Patricia is a woman in the business.
Presently Patricia is with food-processing giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. as President and Chief Executive officer. She is one of the ten most powerful women executives In the USA, with 36 billion revenue. ADM is a giant company, never before had hired a female in such a top post. Patrcia is a packed power house among the executives. Patricia cut her teeth for the past 29 years in the male dominated oil business. Patricia plainly states that she was hired on the basis of her performance and not because she is a woman. Like this she joins the line of women in business.
Her father was heading up a home-construction and development company, and mother was a librarian, inclined towards education. Patricia and her brother were taken on tour to see the corporate and industrial America. She studied the place for women in business.
" Her mother’s thoughts were corner stone in chiseling personalities of Patricia and her brother. Definitely there was a seed of inspiration sown there," says Patricia proudly. Further she says, “I have always enjoyed seeing how things are made.”
It was sheer her love for mathematics played magic in her life. Her love for math drove her ultimately to corporate world "If there was any one interest that might have signaled my future in business, it was probably that I liked math. I loved its complexity. I loved taking apart a really hairy problem, understanding its components, and then solving it." She acknowledged that running a corporation involves the same skills, just on an elevated level.
Patricia graduated from Pennsylvania state university in 1974, as an outstanding student. She is a combination of brain, beauty and ambition! She dreamed that one day she might become a partner in an accounting firm. Little did she know she possessed the business acumen to go even farther.
Woertz married and had three children, including a set of twins. Her husband, a logistics consultant, was supportive. Though Woertz is now divorced, she acknowledges her former husband's support helped open up her career path. "At one point, we sort of said to each other, 'Gee, somebody's career is going to have to take priority,'" she recalled to Fortune . In the end, the couple followed her career plans. She is a woman holding business international.