Terry Neese is a successful small business owner and the founder and CEO of the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women. She is a member of the both the National Women's Hall of Fame, as well as the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame. Terry has served as national president of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and founded Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), and a Distinguished Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). In that role, Terry led the organization's Family Policy Center, where she developed policy initiatives that changed the lives of working families, including allowing new ways to purchase health care, cutting taxes for small businesses, making wage and hour laws more flexible, and ensuring tax fairness.