Katubig Named Outstanding Women Business Leader
May 5, 2011
Teresa Katubig, the president and chief executive officer of Extra Help, Inc., has been honored as one of the St. Louis Region’s outstanding female business leaders.
Katubig, 46, was an awards recipient at the Winning Women’s 4th Annual Women Influencing Now Regional Economic Development Award Dinner on April 28. She is among a group of outstanding business leaders who recognized at the awards dinner held at the Missouri History Museum.
Winning Women is a nonprofit organization that brings together influential female business leaders to foster business growth and development in the St. Louis region. The annual awards honor women in business, education, government and health initiatives that advance regional economic growth.
Award recipients are nominated by their peers in one of three categories: entrepreneur, executive and public service. Katubig was named as the award winner in the executive category for the Metro East portion of the region.
A certified public accountant, Katubig started Extra Help in 1995 as a temporary employment agency. The company has evolved into a locally owned entrepreneurial success story.
“We serve rapidly growing mid-sized companies – companies not unlike Extra Help — who are entrepreneur, hard-working and in demanding industries,” Katubig said.
She began the company in Johnson City, Illinois, across the street from a Dairy Queen, armed only with a CPA certification and management experience at McDonald’s restaurants.
“I was a single mother prepared to work hard to build a better life,” she said. “My mission was and remains simple – to do the right thing and treat people as we all want to be treated.”
Extra Help began as a temporary employment agency but has strategically broadened by adding services such as direct hiring, contingency staffing, workforce tools, and payroll services that help clients improve workforce efficiency.
The company now has 29 employees who provide a full range of employment and human resource services to more than a thousand growing mid-sized companies in Illinois, St. Louis County well as in 31 other states. The company has offices in Edwardsville and Marion, Ill. and downtown St. Louis.
In 2010, Extra Help was recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal as the 17th largest women-owned business in the St. Louis area. The company also received the 2008 “Good Neighbor of the Year Award” for its donation of time and money to charitable organizations in Southern Illinois.
Katubig also was awarded the “Women on the Rise” Award in 2010 by the Office of the Illinois State Treasurer. She is a member of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA) and River Bend Growth Association in Alton, Ill. She also serves on the governing board of the St. Louis Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO).
Elected president of the Southern Illinois Rotary Club in 2006-2007, Katubig also is a member of the Marion, Carbondale Herrin, Edwardsville-Glen Carbon, Belleville, and Highland chambers of commerce.
Katubig is a volunteer with area nonprofit health and human service agencies, serving on the board of directors of Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois, and active with and the American Heart Association, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and the American Cancer Society Heart Walk.
