Katey Fortun – Entrepreneur, Teaches Us About Different-Abilities

Learning From All Who Are Around Her

Katey absorbs people. “I love old people,” she states while giving back energy and smiles. This extrovert uses that love of all people as she applies her interior design degree to selling commercial furniture. For Katie, it’s about more than just sales. “Maybe my job today is only to go in and make them smile. Maybe my job is to only go in and make them laugh or get them not thinking about her problems.”

She learned that lesson from her mentor, 75-year-old Doug Moskonas.

He’s technically her competitor at times, but she soaks in his wisdom.

Just a few years out of college, Katie met her then boss Doug at a meeting at the Burger King in Sparta. Katey sat with her orange juice, “Like a child”, she recalls, laughing. Doug had a coffee. It was there he taught her the most important lesson – put relationships before sales.