They asked if she would be interested in leading the organization’s Foundation and community relations efforts, a position she envisioned as a dream job. After a year-plus in the organization, she can confidently say it is just that.
“Shortly after I started working in the non-profit sector I learned that the Blue Jackets had a Foundation with a non-profit arm,” Dobbs said. “That completely excited me. I never had a ‘dream job’ until I learned that this job existed.”
Dobbs grew up in northern Ontario in a family that, unsurprisingly, was hockey-crazy. Both her brother and sister played and her father coached – but despite hockey being so prevalent, she never grew up truly loving a specific NHL team.