The leadership journey of the Tennesse boy who thought he’d made it when he became a design & release engineer for General Motors, he was wrong, that was just the beginning. Meet the man who progressed from GM to Maytag to become the Senior Vice President and President for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Life Sciences Solutions and Laboratory Products business, and in April 2019 appointed as a member of the DuPont Board of Directors and was recently named one of the most influential people in the fight against COVID 19
03:31 – Fred’s story
09:41 – Keeping the edge
14:23 – Do you stay or leave the plant when COVID19 hits?
17:16 – Creating the high-performance team
20:46 – Tearing down the walls
23:47 – Getting to trust
27:34 – Diversity & inclusion
29:59 - Reverse mentoring
31:25 – The Pandemic – what we’ve learned
34:51 – Speed at scale
39:45 – Gravitas
50:55 – Starting the day
55:09 – Advice to your 25yr old self
59:57 – The board member perspective
1:03:55 – The legacy
