This interview was recorded on June 11 from the epicenter of the unrest in Minneapolis, headquarters of 3M and home to Dr. Rebecca Powers Teeters.

Rebecca has been a leader at 3M for 20+ years, where she currently serves as the Strategy and Execution Director for Enterprise Operations. She holds a Ph.D in Chemistry from University of Missouri-Columbia. It’s safe to say that Rebecca has a long list of accomplishments and titles that lend to her credibility as a professional and a leader, but one of my favorite things about her is her candid, straightforward nature. In this interview, she is vulnerable and real with us about difficult topics including social unrest, race and racial discrimination in our country, and being a female leader in the workplace. This is a heavy-hitting interview, and I hope you’ll listen and learn from the perspective and insight that Rebecca offers in this candid conversation.

Leadership has become a buzzword. In this podcast, Dr. Larry Little skips the over-used cliches and industry jargon about leadership and digs deep into the moments when real people have been faced with hard decisions about what kind of leader they want to be. Leadership doesn’t happen in the vacuum of an office or boardroom, but in the moments when we strive and fail and try again to show up for our team, our friends, our families, and ourselves. This series will feature personal interviews with leaders from all walks of life, and give you insight into how they showed up in the moments that made them who they are today- the moments when they chose to cross the line.