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Women In Leadership Broken Glass COO Dzana Homan's story is remarkable. And it's just beginning. By Renee Forcey Being authentic. Having a purpose. Believing you are your word. and music. After Homan completed high school, she attended the Believing beyond any doubt that you are resilient. These are the University at Ljubljana Slovenia and earned a Bachelor of Science credos that Dzana Homan, Goddard Systems' chief operations degree in physics. Many of her textbooks included references to the officer, lives by. Homan's personal and professional story has works of American physicists, notably one from USC, whose work in unfolded like a boot camp obstacle course. Although it is one laser research resonated with Homan. that few of us can relate to, it is one that we can all look to for inspiration. The next time you find yourself feeling victim to your While eager to start her career and continue her education, Homan surroundings, environment, career, or life, think of Dzana Homan. was about to see her world come to a crushing halt. On February Born in Yugoslavia, Homan experienced a young childhood that 29, 1992 the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovnia passed was similar to that of many children in Europe. She had siblings, a referendum for independence from the Socialist Republic of loving parents, grandparents, and an extended family around Yugoslovia. During the next three-and-a-half years, the Bosnian her. She recalls this period of her life fondly. Many strong women War resulted in more than 100,000 deaths; 20,000 women of surrounded Homan, starting with her grandmother, who was all ethnicities were raped; and more than 2 million people were a physician in a country with only a handful of female medical displaced. It was one of the most devastating conflicts since World practitioners. War II. At an early age, Homan realized she would rather be reading a Homan lost family members, friends, and acquaintances as physics book than going out on the weekend. She had an insatiable casualties to war, including her own father. Her home, her town, appetite for knowledge and fed this curiosity through academics her country, and everything that once was the foundation of her [32] HRO TODAY MAGAZINE | MAY 2013