Pulse
U P C L O S E / B E AT / H I S S T Y L E / H E R S T Y L E
BY ALISON BAILIN BATZ / PHOTOS BY CLAUDIA JOHNSTONE
IN PERFECT STEP
Abby Murtagh is directing the ultimate dance in the desert at the recently reopened Arizona Biltmore Abby Murtagh believes that true leadership is the ability to seamlessly direct a team to the performance of their lives, and then to do it again the next day, but even better. “My parents were the first directors in my life, running a 36-acre farm outside of York in Pennsylvania,” Murtagh says. “The
farm was a dance of sorts, and everyone had their parts, from feeding the pigs to milking the cows to cleaning the stalls.” Murtagh’s position of choice was making lunch. “I was always the first to volunteer for the jobs inside that had creature comforts while being a nice distance from the actual creatures.”
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