From a young age, Charlotte Laffer had dreamed of having a home and a large family. This is the opposite of what happened. Instead, she became a corporate powerhouse, presiding over a team that handled billions of dollars daily in market-facing, real-time transactions. Charlotte rose up the ranks of corporate America by becoming a skillful strategist with a razor-sharp mind that was unleashed as a weapon on anyone who stood in her way. A strong female leader with no time for gender-biased nonsense, Charlotte spent more years than she cared to enumerate rising through the ranks of corporate America, powering her way past the insecurities that threatened her to present the face of strength to her corporate world. Charlotte made the tough decisions and did what she had to do until a decision that she made resulted in a trauma too terrible to manage.
