
The Vertafore CMO has spent decades joining words to data and growth to trust. Her most revealing career move, though, was stepping down, setting a boundary, and discovering that progress does not always point upward.

The Domo CMO's career began with a rejection, survived an acquisition, and gathered momentum through a simple conviction: business gets better when customers and colleagues are treated like people, not entries in a funnel.

A chance job listing pulled her into workforce software. Nearly three decades later, Trish Stromberg is still turning market insight into positioning, pipeline and teams that can carry the weight of growth.

A childhood spent watching one person search for the right work became a decade-long attempt to make hiring less like instinct and more like a learning system.