![]() ![]() “Being commissioner of the WNBA requires a lot of relationship-building in an ecosystem that is not that much different than being a leader in the corporate world,” Engelbert said. “It was then that I realized how important golf could be to building my network of business leaders.”Įlene Bara, senior business development manager at Henricksen, tees off at Stonebridge Golf Links & Country Club in Smithtown.Įngelbert noted that knowing how to play golf has helped in her basketball job, too. “And what really triggered it for me was when I was sitting in the office of a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and we got to talking about golf.” She said they had a “good business conversation” and he invited her out for a game. ![]() “I started to realize that golf would be an important networking tool, especially as a woman in the C-suite,” Engelbert said. Then she went back to playing more frequently when she became Deloitte's first female CEO in 2015. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.Įngelbert said she learned golf for pleasure when she was about 30 years old, but after she had her two children she didn’t play much for about 13 years.
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