Like her husband, Gwen has split her career between academia and business. She received her bachelor's degree in languages and theater at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she later taught business for ten years. She also worked as a technical translator for the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics and as a strategic planning manager for United Airlines. She got her M.B.A. at Boulder and her Ph.D. at Northwestern University. Both Lillises look forward to doing something different once the sale of MediaOne is completed this year.
Education is still very high on their priority list.
They might want to team-teach a business course, and both are interested in taking classes, he in history, she in the sciences. His mother would be proud.