b'THERES NO SUCH THING AS A DUMB QUESTION.RYAN BOWMAN: A PATH WITH PURPOSERyan Bowman grew up watching buildings rise But eventually, with encouragement from his because when your grandfather is Ralph Korte,uncle Todd, Ryan gave construction a test run the job site is part of your childhood backdrop. As in Las Vegas, where no one would give him a a kid, he sold Boy Scout popcorn in the office andpass on his name.spent holidays riding shotgun on job site tours. His grandparents made sure he knew the value of work,He took that opportunity seriously.even when he was too young to carry a tool.We did concrete pours at night.So those Anytime we were being maybe a bit too much forwere 15, 16-hour days, he said. He waded into Grandma, Grandpa would be tasked with takingcomplexity, learning through action, asking charge of us, and hed take us around to job sites,questions, and embracing the idea that you Ryan said with a laugh. prove your pathnot inherit it.Even with that legacy, construction wasntDont feel afraid to be dumb. Ask questions, immediate for Ryan. He excelled in math andhe advised.science, and pursued industrial engineering at the University of Missouri, initially steering away fromToday, he leads projects from coast to coast, the trades. commuting across states to stay close to the build. For Ryan, legacy is realbut earned.She didnt have a job site to take us to say, Hey, I built that. So, it just wasnt something ingrained into us, he said of how his mothers career shaped his early worldview.38 39'