Viveka von rosen forbes ranking of business

I’m Canadian 🇨🇦 ! (And American 🇺🇸)

I became a hang glider pilot at 15 AND it was my 65-yr old (at the time) dad who got me into it!

I got my Master’s in Cultural Studies and started my Ph.D.

in Women’s Studies (until my advisor told me that, being neither queer nor a man-hater, nor a fan of University politics, I didn’t have much of a future.)

I wrote my first (unpublished) sci-fi novel at 17

I was born a Countess (until I married my husband - thanks Alan)

My dad was flying hang gliders, riding bikes, and kayaking until his death at 96

I own a home in Colorado and Costa Rica (Blue Zone, Baby!)

I’m currently learning to paraglide

I married at 50 for the first time (even though a previous boss said I was more likely to get hit by lightning 🥹.

Eff YOU Doug!)

I literally COULD do underwater basket weaving. (My mom taught me how to we