Dr. Loretta P. Dodgen

Co-founder of Multiple Choice, Inc., has 25+ years experience in leadership development, strategic planning and change management. Clients include not-for-profits, government agencies, and small business to Fortune 500 corporations from coast to coast. In addition to organizational development, she serves as an executive coach for professional growth and executive leadership. Loretta completed her doctoral studies in business management studying organizational change through the integration of acquisitions and mergers.

 

Dr. Dodgen is an incorporator and director for First Gaston Bank where she currently serves as Chairman of the Board. She has been elected to United Community Bancorp, a holding company formed by the merger of equals between First Gaston Bank and Catawba Valley Bank of Hickory, North Carolina.

 

Loretta is active in the Greater Gaston Community. She was appointed to two terms on the North Carolina Small Business Council by Governor Jim Hunt and served as advisor to the Western Carolina University School of Business. Her community service includes serving as a trustee and board chairman of the Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium for 2000-2001 and six years on the Gaston Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors including Chairman in 1994. Loretta was recognized for her professional accomplishments and community service as Gaston County Woman of the Year, Chamber Athena Award and Jaycees’ Distinguished Service Award winner, Chamber Small Business Woman of the Year, and Small Business Advocate of the Year. Senator David Hoyle nominated Loretta in 1998 for the North Carolina Distinguished Woman in Business award.