AAUW Traverse City April 2025 Meeting
Monday, April 21, 6 p.m.
Janis Room, Dennos Museum Center

We continue our theme Women Matter with local leader, Laura Oblinger. Currently, Laura is the chair of Northwestern Michigan College’s Board of Trustees and leader of client services for Northern Michigan’s office of Rehmann, a business consulting and advisory firm. You may also remember Laura from the TC Area Chamber of Commerce (now Traverse Connect) where she served in executive leadership. A “local girl”, Laura will share her journey as a business professional woman in our own community. In what ways has gender influenced her career path? Has she encountered gender obstacles or advantages? See below for a more detailed bio. Come for the information and insights, the camaraderie of interesting women, and the delightful refreshments. If you are part of an interest group, please encourage all members to attend and enjoy. You might wish to highlight your groups activities.

Biography
Laura Oblinger is an effective executive leader who can move an organization, and its people, through strategic development with a positive attitude, high-energy, and effectiveness. She has been successful at building and representing a brand. She is a strategic visionary with a clear sense of purpose and urgency when faced with situational challenges. Currently, Laura leads Rehmann’s client service, practice growth and new business development efforts in its Northern Michigan region. In her role as a client advocate, Laura delivers The Rehmann Experience as an objective liaison between Rehmann and client executives.

Prior to Rehmann, she was in executive leadership at the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce (today known as Traverse Connect). In 2015, she left her career at the Chamber, took a year and a half professional break to regroup at home as a wife, mother and became the CEO of herself! Currently, Laura serves in a public office as the Chairperson of Northwestern Michigan College’s Board of Trustees.

Laura has been recognized for her work as an entrepreneur and business woman. Among her honors she was the 2024, recipient of Rehmann’s Randall R. Rupp “Embracing an Entrepreneurial Spirit” award; named by the Traverse City Business News for several awards including: 3 three consecutive years, recognized as one of the top 40Under40; she was named one of the most influential women in the region; twice named one of the top 25 most powerful women in the region. She has also been recognized by Davenport University with their Student Leadership Award for the Traverse City Campus, and in 2015 Alumni of the Year for their Donald W. Maine School of Business.