Busy executive embraces complicated and sometimes dangerous sport

Executive: Kathryn Kelly, 64. She’s the founder, president and CEO of the Heights Foundation, which supports education, wellness, arts and other community development efforts in the Harlem Heights community of Fort Myers. She started the foundation, which recently broke ground on its Heights Early Learning and Education Center, in 2000 after seeing the need in the community during an outreach project conducted over Thanksgiving in 1999.

Diversion: Spearfishing and scuba diving. Kelly grew up in a Fort Myers family of boaters and water enthusiasts. “My dad was born and raised in Key West,” she says. “Water is kind of in the family’s blood.”