Fresh Summit 2017

Shannon Huffman Polson
Author, Speaker, Adventurer, Veteran



Shannon knows leadership. In 1993, she became one of the first women to fly attack helicopters in the US Army. An honor graduate at the Army’s flight school and officer basic courses, she was assigned as the only woman officer in an attack aviation regiment of 120 pilots at only 23 years old. Over eight years in uniform she commanded two attack helicopter platoons and an Apache line company. Shannon knows courage, too. At 19, she became the youngest woman to climb Denali. And she knows corporate motivation, Shannon was selected for the high potential group at Microsoft after managing through a volatile turnaround while maintaining some of the division’s highest health ratings. No wonder Shannon has been recognized with the Woman of Valor Award.

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