
After 25 years inside one communications firm, Chris Heaton helped buy it, rename it and hand more authority to the people around him. His operating idea is simple enough to fit on a label: find the purpose first; promotion comes later.
She nearly became a Spanish teacher, learned communications on the auto-show circuit, and returned to the city she missed. At Franco, a job became a stewardship - and eventually an ownership stake in a 62-year-old Detroit institution.