Star Tribune Coverage of Board Chair Kate Berman's Passing

After three decades in corporate and nonprofit leadership positions, Kate Berman was a gifted mentor to other business executives on how to be more effective and efficient.

As the executive director of a nonprofit called think2perform Research Institute, Berman worked to teach business leaders to be moral, purposeful and intelligent leaders.

And as chairwoman of the board of directors of the Minneapolis YWCA, she practiced those virtues.