As the CEO of Innovate Alabama, Cynthia Crutchfield carries with her a virtue she learned from her parents, that “all things are possible” for the people of the state where she was born and raised. Part of that lesson, Crutchfield learned early on, was ignoring — and proving wrong — the people who don’t share the same principles. Crutchfield has been practicing this lesson since college, when she told an advisor she planned to major in computer science.