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.
“Know it's interesting. If I could describe my dad, my dad would define my success as what I did in throughout my education. My dad was at father that showed up to everything. If I was getting the yellow ribbon and not the gold ribbon, he was still there rooting me on. So he really knew who I was as an individual.”
“So, you know, this is a national problem, and this isn't random theft. This is organized crime. And, you know, state legislation has put guidelines on how much the theft that you can steal before you're convicted. So it's a $1,000 limit. But we have been partnering with other retailers and sharing our camera feed.”
“So I started off in long range research as a chemist. I was an organic chemist, and I had interned my summers at General Motors. And so I worked in chemistry there. I worked in analytical chemistry, moved into organic, worked in polymer science, and then I worked on one of the businesses.”
“First and foremost, I would love to see our pharmacists to operate at the top of their license. And so for them to pass legislation that will allow pharmacists to both test and treat so that there's not a second step in, you know, just imagine a mom who has to take a child out of school and take them to pick up a prescription only to find…”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Rosalind Brewer”
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