Terry Neese - Founder of Terry Neese Personnel Services

 

Terry started her entrepreneurial career 30+ years ago as a young woman with a dream.  Her personnel firm, Terry Neese Personnel Services, has found careers for more than 25,000 individuals and generated over $2.7 billion in payroll to her community.  She faced many adversities in building her multi-million dollar firm including a devastating fire and highway construction, which closed access to her business for over two years.
 
Being involved and giving back to the community and state has been important to Terry.  She became actively involved in public policy issues which led her to seek the office of Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor.  She is the first woman to make it to the general election for this seat.   Terry has always been involved in women’s organizations for networking and women’s issues because it is her passion.  She became the national president of National Association of Women Business Owners, the largest women’s association of its kind.  From that experience and her experience in politics, Terry founded Women Impacting Public Policy and the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women (formerly WIPP Institute).  Terry knew the power behind uniting women’s voices to implement change.  She single handedly united almost 50 national women’s organizations and individual members from all 50 states to form the largest women business owner’s grassroots association.  By testifying before congress and making Capitol Hill visits to their elected officials, women entrepreneurs are finding their political voice because of Terry.

 

Whether she’s writing white papers as a Distinguished Fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis, speaking in front of a crowd, or organizing women from as far as Afghanistan, Terry Neese is an inspiration to men and women all over the world.