Rhetorical Analysis Of Lois Quam

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Throughout Lois Quam’s speeches one can find ample displays of the use of moods and emotions to convey her messages. She strongly believes that by starting Tysvar she can begin her journey to making cleaner and sustainable environment. Strong positive emotion of excitement and determination is visibly evident when she explained where her focus lies in regards to the green economy: “I want to bring the green economy to reality… I want to focus on areas… where I can make the most difference bringing the green economy to scale.” She expressed positive mood of optimism of the green economy when she implored her audience to: “Think about what we can achieve… think about when our environment is safer and our energy is cleaner…when we too will have …show more content…
She spent 17 years at UnitedHealth Group and served as and served as a senior adviser on rural health issues to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from 1993 to 1994. She left UnitedHealth in 2007 to join Minneapolis-based Piper Jaffray & Co. (NYSE: PJC) where she worked in strategic investing for the green economy and health until her departure in 2009 (Keranen, 2011).
Lois Quam has the foresight to realize that some illnesses in children and pregnant mothers are linked to environment damages. This vision also helps in her selection to head the Global Health Institute. It was the hope of the Obama administration that Lois Quam’s healthcare reform credential couples with her financial experience and leadership skill will address many of the problems plaguing the administration of the
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This is the same mission laid out by its founder, Lois Quam. Its emerging health care practice offers advice and counsel to companies and organizations operating in health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, long term care, health information technology, medical device and clinical care management. It has been engaged by a consortium of nursing homes and assistive technology partnership to develop strategic plan to for their new partnership. Its clean technology practice has provided strategic advice and counsel to companies and organizations operating in the emerging clean technology industry, with a special focus on new forms of clean energy and green manufacturing processes. Tysvar is currently working with are Prediktor, a manufacturer of software solutions that make manufacturing and production processes more efficient (Our Work,

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