Name: Welcome to Fortune Connect
Uploaded: 2021-07-26
Duration: 4 min 1 s
Description: Connect sizzle reel, July 2021

Welcome to Fortune Connect

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Hello and welcome everybody. Welcome to C suite Unplugged. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Depending on where in the world you are. Drop your location in the chat please so we can see where you're coming from. It's great to see some new faces and some familiar names and faces welcome everybody. This is the second in R. C suite Unplugged series conversations that are held exclusively for fortune connect fellows at the heart of it, connected the platform and now a community that is dedicated to helping people develop the essential leadership skills in themselves and others that can make work better and the world's more equitable for us. That fortune. That means a new understanding of how the world is changing, specifically as it relates to our three key pillars leading in the purpose driven world, understanding stakeholder capitalism and creating an inclusive, anti racist workforce. I'm Ellen McGirt Fortune senior editor and connect editorial director and it is my pleasure to welcome everyone of you today. So here's Al kelly. Ceo dan schulman is the Ceo of Paypal and Corey buried the ceo of Best buy. I came from a long line of principals and teachers and I was pretty sure I was going to be a teacher frankly, you can tell the difference between somebody being genuine and authentic and somebody who's not when I was ceo of Unilever for 10 years. The last five years I spent more of my time using the size and scale of the company to drive more transformative change. Now, you know, we're kind of weathering the storm of the pandemic and our whole focus through the pandemic has been to take care of our people and particularly our frontline staff in our stores and to emerge from the pandemic stronger when you wake up and you feel like you were born to do something, you know that you are tapping into your purpose. The challenges they signed up in a room for the ceos, you don't look different. So the trick is how about embracing it? And so I make it about who I am, what I do. I answer questions about turbans and hair and the Sikh religion and I do it with a sense of desire to improve the knowledge of people around the movements than themselves are fundamentally about transferring more power into the hands of more people. There are complex challenges that our community space and there's no one civil bullets right there. There are multiple challenges and therefore the solutions we provide have to be multifaceted. It only makes sense to have leadership and our teams and these companies representative of those communities that so greatly need um this kind of focus in the sustainable solutions and products to come out of it. What happened is I spent the first decade right like pointing out the problems like here's the problem here is the problem here is the problem. And I eventually got to, I'm like, I don't want to just point out problems anymore. I want to start talking about what's the solution. We've got some beautiful questions here coming up, but I would like to invite Alan Murray to a mute and bring the perspective. We got a ton of questions in the tab here, send you into some small groups where you can write together and share your stories and when you come back we'd love to see your statements in the chat. I would like you all to meet the founder of the Holland Centers on Jeff Canada Canada to meet you, but I just wanted to say hi and I'm this country needs great leaders right now, more than ever before, change is constant. And when the pace of change external, the company is greater than the pace of change internal, you're falling behind. It's been lovely to connect with each and every one of you. You know where you can find me and I hope you have a great rest of your day and more importantly, a wonderful experience on connect going forward. And I hope to see you less and less than a month. Yeah, right.