Meet the Team at Keystone: Betsy Minnick

When people ask me how long I’ve worked at Keystone my answer is “since kindergarten.” I was in kindergarten when my father bought our previous building. We were the first tenants, so the offices were just cinder block and cement. I remember spending afternoons with a coffee can half-full of paint in one hand and a little paint brush in the other, painting the alphabet on the bare cinder blocks, only to return the next day to a fully painted wall with no evidence of my hard work.  

My education and work experience prior to joining Keystone as my “real job” were in social work. I have a bachelor’s degree in social work and a master’s degree in social and economic development. Most of my work experience was in hospitals. That may seem like a funky jump—from the orthopedic unit to the production floor—but the skills necessary in social work, including listening, empathy, planning, communicating, and gentle truth-telling, are also very necessary in business. At its heart, business is about people—team members, customers, venders, and competitors. The skills of social work have translated nicely to my business role.