Executive Vice President, Crafton Tull & Associates
He’s lived in Hollywood, Denmark and Hong Kong. He has four businesses, four kids, and a four-page, single-spaced resumé packed with leadership and nonprofit service – from the State Chamber to Up With Trees to TYPROS to MOSAIC, a diversity and inclusion council he founded and chaired for four years.
In fact, there seems to be very little that Shane Fernandez excludes from his life – except, perhaps, sleep. And he stays plugged in to the energy of his city by reading the Tulsa World.
“I digest the news three different ways,” Shane says. “We live on a ranch so I walk out to the gate to get the paper each morning. I flip through it for up to an hour, tagging interesting stories. At the office, I often walk in to find several clippings on my desk – stories about new building projects or attracting new talent to Tulsa. And our whole staff reads and forwards stories from tulsaworld.com throughout the day.”
Shane loves Tulsa for its varying terrain, diverse architecture and the people, whom he sees as some of the world’s most kindhearted and philanthropic. He wants everyone to see Tulsa as the inclusive, welcoming place that it is.
“To be purposeful in life, you’ve got to engage. You’ve got to start with your surroundings,” Shane says. “If you can understand the challenges affecting the Tulsa community, if you can make a difference here, then soon it’s going to ripple across the state and beyond.”
