Welcome to Wake Up Wealthy, a personal development webinar series for Fuqua students and alumni, hosted by the Fuqua Community Engagement Alumni Advisory Board. All are welcome.
If you’ve wanted to connect with others about strategies for building generational wealth, explore different financial vehicles, and hear about the journeys of like-minded investors, this series is for you. This virtual series provides a welcoming space for anyone interested in exploring ways to make, keep, and grow their financial portfolios.
In this series, Fuqua alumni will share their experiences and participate in interactive discussions. This series will not be recorded.
October 13, 2026 | Decision Quality Under Pressure: Protecting the Value of Your Biggest Bets
Hiring a leader, committing to a strategy, or making a career move represents a consequential bet. The decisions that follow help determine whether that bet delivers value—especially when time is short, information is incomplete, and pressure is high.
In this session, executive advisor and Fuqua alumna Rhea Norwood explores how familiar responses under pressure can distort judgment and put those commitments at risk. Participants will learn to recognize those patterns, clarify who owns the decision, and ask questions that support deliberate action. They will leave with practical ways to protect decision quality and create the conditions for their commitments to deliver value.
This series is hosted by the Fuqua Community Engagement Alumni Advisory Board, a group of alumni dedicated to empowering, engaging, mentoring, and connecting an actively inclusive community of Team Fuqua.
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Speaker
Rhea Norwood MBA '08
Founder and Principal Advisor of Rheal Solutions®
Rhea Norwood is Founder and Principal Advisor of Rheal Solutions®, where she helps executives protect the value of consequential leadership and organizational bets by strengthening decision quality under pressure.
She brings more than 20 years of experience across operations, organizational effectiveness, and strategic human resources, including leadership roles at Capital One, Lowe’s, Starbucks, and Kelly Services. Her experience leading business operations and shaping workforce strategy informs her advisory work with leaders navigating growth, change, and high-stakes decisions.
Her work draws on FLEX·FOCUS·FIRE™, a disciplined framework that helps leaders recognize signals, interrupt reflexive responses, and move with precision.
Rhea holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a BBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.