For more than three decades, the Minneapolis association executive has worked on the quiet craft of making boards clearer, braver and more useful - one agenda, assessment and difficult question at a time.

From Canadian Tire's aisles to Holt Renfrew's windows and a historic golf club's fairways, Tracy Fellows has spent her career turning strategy into something customers can walk through.
Across hospitals, statehouses and community rooms, the former Ardent Health marketing chief made communication an operating discipline - then carried that instinct into nonprofit service.