Shelton highlights Winter Diamond Dinner

INDIANOLA, Iowa -- The Simpson softball team will host its Winter Diamond Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 27 inside Hubbell Hall in the Kent Campus Center, with special guest speaker, Beth Wood Shelton '01.

Shelton currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Girls Scouts of Greater Iowa, which oversees all operations for 13,500 members in portions of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota.

In 2019, Shelton received regional and national accolades for her work and innovation; highlighted recently on platforms ranging from Good Morning America, Yahoo Finance, ABC World News Tonight and SiriusXM to Working Mother Magazine, USA Today and the Today Show. She has shared her passionate message of recognizing the human side of workplace culture and benefits from coast to coast and was recently named one of the 15 People To Watch in 2020 by the Des Moines Register.

Beth received the 2018 Alumni Achievement award from Simpson College. She serves as a guest lecturer in the Drake University MBA program (where she also earned her MBA) and received the 2019 Young Alumni of Achievement Award by Drake University. She recently completed the Artificial Intelligence program at MIT.

Shelton is a life-long amputee and serves on the board for the Iowa Amputee Golf Association to raise scholarships for families affected by the trauma and impact of limb loss. She also serves on the Women Lead Change steering council as well as serving on her local school board.

Shelton is a 2001 graduate of Simpson College and spent time working in the admissions office at Simpson for nearly a decade. While enrolled at Simpson, Shelton was a three-time women's tennis MVP and was selected to the academic all-conference team in 2000.

The Winter Diamond Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the special program will follow. To reserve your spot, click here.