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EXECUTIVE: Laura Martis is the luxury division director for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Properties Group, a real estate company that also offers relocation and property management services. She moved to Sarasota from southern Illinois about seven years ago, and now lives and works in Tampa.
DIVERSION: Martis, along with her 12-year-old son, Ethan, is a member of the Sea Cadet Corps, the U.S. Navy's nonprofit youth training and leadership development program. She signed up as an adult volunteer officer in the organization, with objectives that include teaching seamanship skills and good citizenship. Cadets receive hands-on training related to a variety of career paths. (Prior to joining the Sea Cadets, Martis and her son volunteered for five years at the Big Cat Habitat and Gulf Coast Sanctuary, an animal rescue organization in Sarasota, where they trained bears.)
BOYS WILL BE BOYS: Martis, 31, has been a single mother for most of Ethan's life and says she wanted him to be able to spend more time with male role models. So she was thrilled by his interest in becoming a Sea Cadet.
“It's similar to the idea behind the Boy Scouts — developing the young people in our community and preparing them for jobs, building their options for the future,” she says.
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