 After a brief period away from the organization, she re-joined Vista-United in 1981 as operations manager.In 1984, she became manager of The Golf Resort (later called The Disney Inn), a hotel that is now Shades of Green, a military resort operated by the U.S. Department of Defense at Walt Disney World Resort.Crofton later became the resort's vice president of human resources and spent five years as senior vice president of human resources and organizational improvement.