Patricia Woertz- A Woman With Determination In Business!

Patricia is known in the field of business and women. She showed the world that there is nothing like ‘business for women’ in this world! You need to rub shoulders with men to prove the mettle.
Her handling of team and strategic plans were excellent, Impressed with her financial insight in handling the job, Chevron invited Woertz to join its San Francisco office and work with strategic planning. In 1989, Woertz was appointed finance manager of Chevron Information Technology Co. and by 1991 had been named head of strategic planning. She stood apart as a business woman in the world. Holding a degree in hand she was preparing herself as a woman and business international.
Woertz took early retirement and left Chevron in February of 2006 to pursue other opportunities. By April, Woertz had been scooped up by Decatur, Illinois-based ADM, one of the world's largest farm-commodities processors. ADM takes products from farmers—like corn, wheat, and soybeans—and turns them into such products as chocolate, corn sweeteners, flour, and soymeal, among other things. Woertz, however, was brought on board to help ADM boost its corn-based ethanol business. As oil costs continue to rise, ADM is betting on the alternative fuel ethanol. ADM is the largest producer of ethanol in the United States and has been making it since the energy crisis of the late 1970s.
Speaking to Fortune , one former ADM manager acknowledged that Woertz had a tough job on her hands as only the eighth CEO in the company's 104-year history. In addition, the company had been run by a member of the Andreas family for decades. "By God, if you only knew the culture there. Bringing an outsider, a woman no less, into a company that's a bastion of lifers and good ol' boys—I can't tell you how huge a change that is.”
One of Woertz's children, Paula Lucchini, seems to be following her mother into the corporate jungle. After graduating with an engineering degree from the University of San Diego in 2005, she joined Chevron, stepping right into the male-dominated workforce her mother has spent her career navigating. Patricia clearly showed the world that business and women can go together to make the world better! She is a woman in business with dedication and determination.
Woertz believes her success is a direct result of her willingness to move around, take on new challenges, and find solutions. "I had a very pragmatic upbringing," Woertz noted in an online article Are such women inspiring others? I think women executives around the world are very small in number but the most powerful!  What matters is quality not quantity!