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She's The CEO Of A Fortune 500 Company, And She's Rethinking Leadership | TODAY - YouTube

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sometimes we use our voices by saying

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we belong here get used to

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us as a leader in her first company

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sales grew to more than

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a billion dollars it was forward

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thinking when roz brewer took the reins

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at her next sam's club she modernized

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the business and boosted profits

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then she stepped in as ceo of starbucks

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and

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overhauled the way they treat their

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customers but all that

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brewer will be headed to walgreens and

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will become its ceo

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it was just a warm up you're joining

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walgreens in the middle

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of a pandemic that's a lot of pressure

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this wasn't like an easy entry not at

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all

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but this came to me and i said this is a

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time for me to step into something that

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i've always wanted to do

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and that's to have impact make change

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happen

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lead something that would leave an

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impression on people's lives and as i've

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seen people

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you know get their first shot and they

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look back at

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our pharmacist and they are crying and

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in tears i know i've made the right

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decision

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at 59 roz brewer is a wife mother of two

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and now the ceo of the largest company

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ever run by a black woman have you ever

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been told

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that you actually have advanced because

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of your race

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i have had several similar comments to

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that

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as if i'm a token i have had that i've

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had the comments

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uh that you know you're not as smart as

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you think you are

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i've had a lot of those um hoda

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i refer often to a situation where i was

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at a meeting

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just for ceos and i had one gentleman

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ask me constantly

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what did i do for a living almost

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like why are you here right you must

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have asked me 20 questions like

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marketing

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like sales like i was like no

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it was so funny because i happened to be

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the keynote speaker for the private

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luncheon i

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assumed my position in on the stage and

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i just saw his face just

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totally drained i feel as if i'm going

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to teach a couple of lessons

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you know through this and i'm gonna be

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my best that drive was instilled

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at an early age brewer grew up in

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detroit

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the youngest of five kids her parents

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worked the assembly line at general

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motors

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your parents didn't go to college but

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they wanted to make sure that all their

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kids did

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how did they make that clear to you that

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that was the plan

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absolutely it was from day one it was

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not

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there was no other option you know my

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dad worked three jobs

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but for every event that i had in my

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life he was always

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there and i remember one event where

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i thought i was going to get you know

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the gold ribbon

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and i ended up getting an honorable

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mention and i remember feeling guilty

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because i was like

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he left work early one of the three jobs

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and all i got was an honorable mention

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and it broke my heart but he was so

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proud things that happened in these

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buildings

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brewer studied chemistry here at the

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prestigious spelman college

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forging a lifelong connection to the

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institution

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and a mission to pay it forward so it's

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your mom your dad

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and spellman absolutely my mom my dad in

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spelman college

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brewer's father who beamed even at the

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honorable mentions

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wouldn't live to see his daughter earn

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that diploma he died six weeks before

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graduation

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how often do you think about what he

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would be thinking of you

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like in this moment maybe oh my god i um

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clearly know he would be quite excited

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he would be

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um i think about that a lot

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in the face of daunting odds spelman

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women persevere the first

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black woman is a phrase that most often

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precedes her name

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but for brewer that just means she has

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more work to do

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in 2018 a starbucks manager called the

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police

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after two black males sat without

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ordering brewer the company's coo

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sprang into action you dove into that

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one head first because to you

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it was personal it was very personal i

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saw these two young

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men and what really

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struck me was they were the same exact

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age as my son john

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this could have happened to him wow

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what'd your son say

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well he texts me right away because you

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know this hit

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black social media before it hit

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anywhere else and he

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texts me he said mom you have to get

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after this right away we had a very

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constructive meeting

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starbucks did something you don't hear

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very often they

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said they were sorry and within a month

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closed

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8 000 stores for racial bias training

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what might have been a public relations

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disaster

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became brewer's triumph it does seem

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like you were put in these positions and

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situations

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and do you believe that there's some

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divinity here you know

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i do think it is because i'm not on that

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mission you know i'm somebody's mom

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i'm somebody's wife and i'm somebody's

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leader but i'm not that activist

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so i feel like this is divine order the

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world is before you

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and you need not take it or leave it as

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it is

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make it different than when you came in

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that is my guiding compass

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to that end when will she feel her work

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is done

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likely never likely never

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you know i see so many ills that still

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you know need energy and need a voice

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and

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i hope that i can still be that person

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to make change happen i really hope so

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wow i mean weirdly if i work in here i

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kind of want to work at

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walgreens i just loved her whole vibe

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she started off as a scientist

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and i said how do you because how does

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science and business work she said in

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science

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you analyze data and you make the quick

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decisions

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so she learned that decision making and

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the other cool thing she said is

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when she hires people she asks them a

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question she says you're at your kid's

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soccer game and i call you

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she said what do you say and most people

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say i put the phone down and i go run to

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you and she said she goes no no

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she said a happy employee is a

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productive one she said

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you say i'll call you in 30 minutes and

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i'm good with that she told me

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my daughter won regionals in her track

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meet on friday

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on monday i came to work and i had a

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skip in my step

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she said i want happy people working

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here and i was like that is

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awesome hope our bosses are listening

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roz brewer that was great well we've got

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She&#39;s The CEO Of A Fortune 500 Company, And She&#39;s Rethinking Leadership | TODAY - YouTube

She's The CEO Of A Fortune 500 Company, And She's Rethinking Leadership | TODAY - YouTube