Hi, I'm Jonathan Kaphart, and welcome to Cape Up.

A couple of weeks ago, you heard my conversation with Pamela Newkirk about her book on the failure

of the multi-billion dollar diversity business.

Today I'm bringing you Rosalind Brewer, the CEO of Starbucks.

We sat down for a live event at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June to talk about race, leadership, what happened in that Philadelphia

Starbucks, and her own experience of being the only black person in the room, and you can hear

it all right now.

So good morning everyone.

Thank you very much for being here for this morning session.

Roz, thank you for sitting down and having this conversation about all sorts of things.

Leadership, race, the company, the incident that we're all focused on and it's the focus of the of this conversation is what happened in April of 2018 in

Philadelphia at a at a Starbucks off of Ritten House Square.

Yes.

What, you had just been named C of Starbucks what four months earlier?

Correct I did. But you weren't just you weren't new to Starbucks. No, no I wasn't.

So first of all Jonathan thank you for joining me in this conversation and the chance to be here.

And so no, I was not new to Starbucks. I had joined Starbucks as a member of the Board of Directors.

And I joined the member, as a member of the board in March, and then I came into the company

as one of the members of management in October of 2008-17.

And then the incident happened in April.

And given your tenure on the board so you're no stranger to the

company you're no stranger no stranger to the culture when you got word of

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