Familiar Face To Head IPMA

"It's kind of like you would be working for nothing," she points out. "It was just an incredibly emotional decision for me."

Asked To Stay Involved

After she announced her retirement, she says, Sedgwick asked her to think about continuing to work with IPMA. Kraft, who was named Manager of the Year by this magazine in 1991, liked the idea of focusing on something smaller than BCBS where she could make a difference.