Laura Gallagher is a visionary business and community leader with expertise in entrepreneurship, marketing, public relations, digital media, and leadership. She is also one of fewer than 100 women in Wisconsin to be recognized by the Governor as a Trailblazer in Wisconsin. She is the SBA's 2019 Women's Business Champion of the Year. The company she started over 30 years ago was Dane County's Small Business of the Year in 2022. She is a proud alumnus of Goldman Sach's 10,000 Small Businesses Entrepreneurial program at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She graduated in May 2017.She was a North American Regional Ambassador and Spokesperson for Women's Entrepreneurship Day, a global movement empowering and celebrating women worldwide. She served as a Global Ambassador representing the United States and Wisconsin from June, 2017 through June, 2019. She is a 2016 Business Forum Athena Award finalist and her book, "#180in120 - How to Recharge Your Business in 120 Days" is available on Amazon.com and at www.180in120.com. As the founder and leader of The Creative Company, a full service public relations and web development agency she founded 30 years ago, she has led numerous campaigns for both local and national brands winning many awards along the way.When companies are building, growing, or changing, they hire The Creative Company. In 2016, she graduated from the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City program at Columbia University in New York City. ICIC’s mission is to drive economic prosperity in America’s inner cities through private sector investment to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.Laura is very involved in the community providing support to End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, Literacy Network, The Healing House, Big Brothers Big Sisters, social justice causes and organizations that exist to help raise people up by alleviating poverty, providing hope and creating economic equality.