Ken Garff Automotive board chair Kathi Garff “has really just paved the way for us to be women in leadership and how we can grow women [leaders] and also about women empowerment. Every month we have a women empowerment Zoom meeting and we get to hear speakers — other women who are in not just in this industry but in other industries, whether it’s playing basketball professionally or [being a] sportscaster. To be able to hear those [women] and be able to talk afterward — and Kathi Garff will talk at the end and [say] ‘Thank you for all you do; this is great.’ [Ken Garff Automotive is] all about women empowerment and women in [leadership] roles because they’re seeing that things have changed. Finally, things have changed. Have they changed completely? Will they ever change [completely]? Probably not. But we finally have a voice. We finally have a voice to speak and not be afraid to speak. When you have that, there’s nothing that can stop you.” Kendra Southern, fleet services manager at Big Star Ford in Manvel, Texas, on the “Chicks in Charge” podcast hosted by Shasta Haddock and Jess Burkhart

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