Leaning into Your Voice with Walgreens’ SVP, ESG & Chief DEI Officer Alethia Jackson

“If I was being invited into a room, it was for a reason. So it’s about being confident in that I had something to offer. I wasn’t going to sit at the periphery of the table and not speak,” — Alethia Jackson

 

This week, we make a trip to The Hill with America’s Top Lobbyist, Alethia Jackson making some #BillionDollarMoves​!

As VP of Federal Relations & Head of Advocacy for Walgreens (and now Chief DEI Officer!), Alethia is expanding patient access to pharmacy services while advancing the role of pharmacy in the healthcare system. As Chair of the Vaccine Equity Taskforce, she sees first hand, Corporate America’s healthcare battle especially during this time we are all living in.

We unpack what it means to lead with your voice, the complex healthcare landscape and how to build partnerships that matter.

 

 5 THINGS YOU’LL LEARN:

  • How to be heard, and help others feel heard
  • What it takes to make it in Corporate America
  • The healthcare battle of our generation
  • The quadruple aim of healthcare & how senior executives are thinking about it
  • How digitization is affecting the future of healthcare

 

TIMESTAMPS

00:11 – What’s on tab for this week: the healthcare battle of our generation,

02:29 – Alethia’s DRIVE and where it came from

04:55 – The disparity of care

07:09 – How to find your voice, and come back from being perceived not in a way you’d like

11:14 – On power in Washington DC

15:11 – The quadruple aim of healthcare, the challenges

19:57 – Politics vs government; the politicization of healthcare?

24:08 – The retailization of healthcare

26:53 – Guest CAMEO! Nur Afifah & Renwei Chung – fake news, reimagining healthcare’s front door

39:04 – BILLION DOLLAR QUESTIONS

 

 

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