Rapid Response: How business can engage against racism, w/Shellye Archambeau (MetricStream, Nordstrom, Verizon)
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What can your business do right now in the struggle against racism? More than you think, says Shellye Archambeau, former CEO of MetricStream, now a board member at Verizon, Nordstrom and Okta. She returns to the show with her all-too-rare perspective as a Black woman at the top of some of the world’s largest businesses. The struggle is a marathon, but businesses are uniquely poised to demand accountability and transparency from their communities. Whether you're a CEO or a citizen, Shellye has heartfelt and hard-earned wisdom for us all. Interviewed by editor Bob Safian.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi listeners, it's Chris Goethea, producer on Masters of Scale. |
| 0:03.2 | Quickly dropping in with an invitation for you to join us at an upcoming strategy session with Reed, |
| 0:07.9 | along with a few very special guests. During this live virtual event, you'll hear some game-changing |
| 0:14.0 | wisdom and insights that will help you make smart and financial decisions for your business. |
| 0:18.4 | So take a second to save the data in your calendar for Monday, May 8th at 3.30pm Pacific, |
| 0:23.2 | and register at mastersofscale.com forward slash strategy session to receive your link to join. |
| 0:29.6 | We'll be tackling some of the most top of mind questions for entrepreneurs, |
| 0:32.8 | with a special focus on how your business can thrive even amidst an economic downturn. |
| 0:38.0 | It's a really important topic, and you'll hear timely strategic insights that will help set you |
| 0:42.8 | and your business up for success. So go to mastersofscale.com forward slash strategy session to |
| 0:49.2 | register for free. Now on to the show. It was horror, it was outrage, it was disbelief, |
| 0:59.6 | realizing that not only did this happen, but that could have been my son, my son-in-law, my |
| 1:07.2 | grandson. Silence is a problem. The embeddedness of racism and bias throughout our culture as a result |
| 1:17.7 | of hundreds of years is deep. To unearth, uncover, shine the light and fix, it's going to take time |
| 1:26.7 | and frankly fortitude. I believe that businesses can use their power to actually call for accountability, |
| 1:35.0 | to call for transparency and visibility into what's happening in our local communities. |
| 1:41.6 | The tone at the top is critical in any organization, and the top is the CEO and the top is the board. |
| 1:49.7 | We have to capitalize on this moment and the movement to ensure that we don't go back to business |
| 1:57.9 | as usual. That's Shelley R. Chambo, former CEO at Metric Stream and now board director at Verizon, |
| 2:07.1 | Nordstrom, and several other companies. Shelley was one of Silicon Valley's first female African-American |
| 2:13.5 | CEOs, and she previously appeared as a guest on Masters of Scale in 2019 in an episode called Take Bigger |
| 2:20.8 | Risks. But the risks she sees across America today have a new urgency, following the killing of |
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