The Executive Education Center at Drake has hired its first full-time director, Sarah Ramsey. The center is focused on developing exceptional leaders, and in its first year of operation prepared more than 50 central Iowa professionals for careers in the C-suite.

Ramsey, who has extensive expertise building strategic public and private partnerships in major U.S. cities across the country, joined the Executive Education Center from the United Way of Central Iowa, where she built and led a new public policy department and governance structure for United Way’s legislative policy work. She led more than 11,000 community and business leaders, CEOs, partners, volunteers, and donors to create policy changes in the areas of early care and education, adult literacy, skilled workforce, hunger, and children’s mental health. Read more about Sarah and the Executive Education Center in the Drake Newsroom.