Reinventing Business in Pursuit of a Noble Purpose

As the way we buy, sell, and consume changes, every organization is being challenged to lead with more purpose and humanity. Consumers and shareholders alike are demanding more, forcing transformational changes that impact both the bottom line and the greater good.

In this on-demand session, Hubert Joly, former CEO and Chairman of Best Buy and author of the upcoming The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism, will expand on the philosophies behind the resurgence of Best Buy: pursuing a noble purpose, putting people at the center of the business, creating an environment where every employee can blossom, and treating profit as an outcome, not the goal. He'll be joined by executive leaders from FNAC/Darty and Verizon Media, who will share how they are leveraging their marketplaces for good to meet rising expectations for environmental, social, and corporate governance.

Watch this on-demand session to learn new strategies on how to champion these transformational initiatives within your own organization, and get insights on how every leader can use their influence to improve their business practices and the world.

2021 Summit On-Demand LPs - Customer Logos (1200x200)- Hubert Joly + Darty + Verizon

 

About our speakers:

Hubert Joly
Former CEO of Best Buy and Author of The Heart of Business
Hubert Joly is the former Chairman and CEO of Best Buy. He has been recognized as one of the 100 “Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s, and one of the top ten CEOs in the United States in Glassdoor’s annual Employees’ Choice Awards. Joly is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and serves on the boards of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

During Hubert’s time at Best Buy, he and his team rebuilt the company into one of the nation’s favorite employers, a sustainable leader, and an innovator, dramatically increasing customer satisfaction and growing the company’s stock price ten-fold. His greatest achievement, however, may have been to make himself dispensable: he decided to step down as CEO in 2019 and as executive chairman in 2020, and pass the baton to a new generation of leaders.

Hubert’s purpose in life is to make a positive impact on the people around him and use the platform he has to make a positive difference in the world. In addition to serving on boards, he now spends most of his time as a lecturer at Harvard Business School and supporting other leaders seeking to become the best versions of themselves and to lead with purpose and humanity. He is also actively invested in efforts to advance meaningful diversity and inclusion.
Enrique Martinez
Chief Executive Officer, FNAC Darty
With a degree in Economics and having graduated from the IESE Business School in Madrid, Enrique Martinez started his career at Toys’R Us.
In 1998, he joined Groupe Fnac tasked with establishing and developing the brand in Portugal. He then held various positions within the Group in both Spain and Portugal. In 2004, he joined the Executive Committee as CEO for the Iberian region.
In 2012, he was invited to France to head up the France and Northern Europe region (France, Belgium and Switzerland). In 19 years, Enrique Martinez has contributed significantly to Groupe Fnac's growth.
Since July 2016, he was entrusted with overseeing the efforts to integrate the Fnac and Darty brands in France, which, in a matter of months, would result in the creation of the first synergies between the two brands.
He has been Chief Executive Officer of Fnac Darty since July 2017.
Andrea Wasserman
Head of Global Commerce, Verizon Media
Andrea Wasserman is a consumer sector leader, entrepreneur, and intrapreneur with a background across stores, e-commerce, marketing, merchandising, and product who invests deeply in developing people. She transforms businesses and cultures by connecting dots, visioning what’s possible, and rallying teams around the path forward.

Currently, Andrea is the first Head of Global Commerce for Verizon Media Group, where she leads a team of product managers, engineers, designers, marketers, strategists, and operators. They’re growing commerce revenue across Yahoo Mail, Yahoo search, and content commerce (across trusted brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and Engadget). They’re also launching new consumer-facing businesses including the March 2021 announcements of the Yahoo Shops marketplace, shoppable video, and verticals focused on Cooking and Parenting from In The Know, the top 25 US lifestyle property.

Immediately prior, as VP Retail Experience at Verizon, Andrea's scope spanned the entire customer purchase journey - including more than 6,000 stores and digital retail touch points - for technology products and services, including the once-in-lifetime launch of 5G. Andrea and her team also led all omnichannel distribution strategy and analytics and the Voice of Employee field engagement program.

Andrea previously led businesses at Nordstrom (National Bridal Director), Sole Society (CEO), Hudson’s Bay and Lord & Taylor (SVP/GM eCommerce), and Nine West (SVP/Head of eCom + Stores). She revamped merchandising, adopted the latest technology, tested creative marketing partnerships, explored corporate development relationships, adopted the latest technology, and solved supply chain challenges.

Andrea holds an MBA from Columbia, a BS from Cornell, and lives in downtown Manhattan.