• “I obviously suck pretty bad at retiring,” Shelia Finney joked. Finney’s first retirement from the turf industry was in 2015, after 25 years as the superintendent at Gaylord Springs Golf Links in Nashville, Tenn. Shortly after, she accepted a position at GCSAA as senior director of member programs, where she’s offered support and mentorship, and helped develop the Women’s Leadership Academy. 

Finney offered a few lessons learned from her decades of expertise near the end of the second day of learning at this year’s Women’s Leadership Academy. Among those lessons: “Life is too short to be unhappy and it’s too long to wait to be happy.”

Finney said she’s had enough experience to know when to move on from professional situations that aren’t productive. “If there’s a situation or a relationship that isn’t serving me, or that isn’t propelling me forward, if I’ve worked on it and it’s not changing, I’m leaving it,” she said.

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