Gwen Sisto

 

What year did you being lifting? My first competition was in 1994.   I started training in 2004, after having my daughter.

Georgia Tech

Personal

Make the Olympic Team,  Break  the American Records, win a medal  at a major international competition.  Grow Risto Sports Exponentially over next 5 years. Continue positive career trajectory.

Favorite Food: A latte with white and chocolate mousse cake (not  to be confused with layer cake).

Favorite Book: “Outliers” by Malcom Gladwell

Favorite TV Show: It will be “America’s Got Talent”, when Howard Stern judges this season

Favorite song that gets you motivated:  anything Rammestein, DMX” Up in Here”,  Lady Gaga “Born this way”

Hobbies/Interested outside of Weightlifting: Working on my company Risto Sports, traveling.  spending  time with my husband and daughter,  brushing- up on my programming skills,  reading  journal articles on stakeholder theory and enterprise transformation.

Most people don’t know that….  In my professional career, I have done things like manage the Lean programs for an entire plant; managed a Foreign military jet engine repair program, even shaking the hand of a Kuwaiti military leader after solving their Low Pressure Turbine module bottleneck; winning “Top Gun” in an F-16 flight simulator competition.    According to my husband, Ivan: that I am a Rocket Scientist, that I play the violin, and that I can paint.