Rosalind Brewer
The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
Rosalind Brewer reads as The Reformer because she transforms organisations from within rather than tearing them down. At Starbucks she modernised supply chain operations and wrote measurable diversity benchmarks into supplier contracts, a structural intervention rather than a symbolic one. At Walgreens she took a legacy retail and pharmacy model and pushed it hard into healthcare services, redesigning what the business fundamentally does. Her discipline is operational, and her changes are built to hold.
“This marketplace is ripe for disruption, and I'm sort of drawn to transformation and disruption. I became super excited about it once I began to peel back the understanding of the business.”
“The idea of having a primary care physician interacting with the pharmacists is the way of the future and we will need that ecosystem around us.”
“It's going to go beyond mentoring and sponsoring. It's pipeline — filling the pipeline effectively, getting people of different races in operating roles.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Rosalind Brewer”
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