Tracy Bode

Ball Horticultural Co., West Chicago, Illinois

Associate Business Manager-Specialty Garden/Northeast Regional Supply Manager

• Has worked in a number of areas, including greenhouse production, landscape production, nursery management and now supply chain management.
• Oversaw a large nursery expansion project that converted acreage of field tree and shrub production into above ground, containerized shrub and perennial production.

Don’t Get in Her Way: Tracy has a competitive streak in her and recently competed in her first Spartan Race, an obstacle course race that involves scaling 7- to 9-foot walls, army crawling under barbed wire and carrying sand bags up and down flights of stairs.

Can’t Live Without: The library. “I love to read, any kind of book really, fiction or non-fiction, set deep in history or far into the future! One of my favorite series is The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett, which I would recommend to everybody whether you’re a reader or not!”