The Transformational Women in Family Business 2024 are 16 accomplished women who are propelling their family enterprises into the future.
BRANDI HARLEAUX
CEO | South Post Oak Recycling Center | Houston, Texas
Brandi Harleaux likes to say her career path took her “from pixie dust to real dust.”
More than a decade ago, she was enjoying a successful career at the Walt Disney Company — where she was the head of organizational development, talent management, learning and development for Disney Interactive — when an executive coach asked her a question she hadn’t fully considered: “What’s next for you?”
At first, she was taken aback. But the coach had an idea: What about joining South Post Oak Recycling Center (SPORC), the business Brandi’s mother and father, Freddie and Angela Robinson, had founded in 1994?