Formidable Podcast

In this episode, we hear from Provail Interim CEO Emily Cantrell, who shares her perspective on the best ways to support people with disabilities and create a DEI policy that is truly inclusive. She also shares her experience with racism and her own racial identity, and her story of recovery after surviving the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in Las Vegas, and how those experiences have shaped her leadership style.

Connie Collingsworth spent 22 years at the Gates Foundation as the chief legal officer and chief operations officer. She also serves on a variety of corporate and nonprofit boards. In this episode she shares what it was like to work with larger than life personalities, including Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett, why she thinks imposter syndrome is made up, and how to speak with confidence in the boardroom.

In this first episode of the Formidable Podcast, we sit down with Seattle Chocolate CEO Jean Thompson to discuss the crisis facing chocolate makers as cocoa bean prices soar and climate change decimates prime cocoa-growing regions.