Ashley Dietz, 37

An Australian adventure set the tone for an exec’s fast-moving nonprofit career.

Ashley Heath Dietz holds a picture of her mentor, Johnette Gindling.
Ashley Heath Dietz holds a picture of her mentor, Johnette Gindling.
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Ashley Dietz took a big life adventure — and risk — in her young 20s with a trip to Australia. There was a lot of motivation for the journey: graduate school, being with her Down Under native and eventual husband, Paul, and, notably, honoring her dad David Heath, who had recently died from cancer. “Australia was one country he had never been to,” Dietz says. 

 

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