Winkler has successfully built three marketing departments at both corporate and nonprofit levels. She serves as executive director of the Down Syndrome Association of Central Oklahoma. “Find out what success really means to you,” she advises young professionals. “As a young professional right out of college, I thought it meant a high-paying job, a nice car and huge house. Over the years I’ve learned that the most important thing to me is being able to go home at the end of the day with the feeling that I’ve made a positive impact, even if just a small one, in someone’s life through my work.”