Yesterday, I shared a Q&A I recently had with Steve Beard on . Steve is CEO of , which recently completed a transformation into America’s largest healthcare educator. It鈥檚 a fascinating story that got me thinking more broadly about what distinguishes leaders who successfully navigate profound transformation. The news that Enrique Lores has been named CEO of PayPal and The HOW Institute鈥檚 annual of their State of Moral Leadership in Business report added more food for thought on this increasingly critical topic.
Enrique received our inaugural JUST Capital Lifetime Achievement Award last year for his exceptional leadership at HP Inc. During his tenure, he guided the company through a fundamental strategic transformation while consistently investing in workers, customers, and communities. I have confidence he’ll do the same at PayPal.
What do Steve and Enrique have in common? Both understand that transformation and stakeholder investment aren’t competing priorities, they’re mutually reinforcing.
Covista sits at the intersection of workforce, health, education, and technology. When I asked about Covista Open Doors, their new initiative to expand access to healthcare careers, Steve went straight to the heart of it. “We train and develop the folks that care for all of us,” he told me. “And we’ve got an opportunity that we believe is too good and too important to pass up.”
Enrique operated with the same philosophy at HP. At our flagship Best of American Business event last year he shared his conviction that 鈥�…business success and social responsibility are not separate pursuits. They are deeply connected.鈥�
Both leaders also embody authentic leadership grounded in personal experience. Steve, a first-generation college graduate, told me that creating opportunity for historically excluded populations is simply part of who he is. Enrique started at HP as an intern nearly four decades ago, inspiring his commitment to workforce advancement and long-view leadership.
The HOW Institute report demonstrates how rare this kind of human, stakeholder-first leadership may be but also how vital it is to the process of transformation.
Be well,
Martin
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