Kathryn Nordberg, VP, Administration Heritage of Edina, Inc.

Ms. Nordberg has held a position on the Board of Directors at HOE for 7 years at different times during the last 12 years. During her tenure as VP Administration, she has been involved in many facets of the business including financial, legal, human resources, technology and marketing. Key achievements include spearheading restructuring of the entire health care operation, leading the design and implementation of an enterprise-wide documentation system for resident care. This elimination of redundancy and inefficiency has freed staff to focus on improved care, the core focus of the business.

Throughout her career Ms. Nordberg has held executive positions with for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in technology, finance, packaged goods and health care. Ms. Nordberg is recognized for her innovative solutions to long-standing operational challenges, and her ability to bring together disparate groups of individuals to create positive outcomes for expansive, long-term projects with multi-million dollar budgets. She has extensive leadership experience in strategic and organizational planning, management, marketing, developing partnerships and alliances, sales, new product development, brand renovation and communications. She is an exceptional leader, whose vision and perseverance have created history of successful outcomes – in both business and personal endeavors.

Ms. Nordberg is also the parent of an Autistic child who is now 17 years old. She became the founding chairperson of Families for Early Autism Treatment (FEAT) of MN in 1995 when no funding or early intervention programming was available for Autistic children in Minnesota. In 1997, she participated in bringing world-renown behavioral therapist, Ivar Lovaas, to Minnesota to share the proven “Lovaas Therapy”: Applied Behavior Analysis, for early intervention with Autistic children. She challenged the Minneapolis Public school system’s status quo in two years of litigation, bringing awareness to the larger community about the lack of efficacy in the public school system’s program for children with Autism. This laid the groundwork that established the current medical assistance programs now available for families wanting to implement Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) programming for their Autistic children. Ms. Nordberg continues to advocate for families in the Midwest, and is now CEO and chairman of Erik’s Ranch, Inc., Livingston, MT.

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