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  • John Mackey of Whole Foods Market: Purpose, Healthy Living and Love

    It’s so fun that John Mackey, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, and Kip Tindell, our Chairman and CEO, were once college roommates in Austin at The University of Texas. And what’s even more wonderful is that they both went on to found businesses built on love. In fact, John can’t imagine anything more important than love. He says that if we’re going to transform America’s corporations, love needs to be front and center. But you have to create a workplace that embodies love —

  • What Does Purpose Sound Like?

    Roy Spence, Founder, Chairman and CEO of GSD&M and the Purpose Institute and author of It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For, joined us at our recent Staff Meeting to talk about how every extraordinary company is driven by purpose. He made us laugh (a lot!), he told us stories about his own personal experiences with our brand and wonderfully trained, service-oriented and fun employees at our store in Austin and inspired us in more ways than he could even imagine. He ended by showing

  • What Are You Going to Do with Your One Wild and Precious Life?

    Bert Jacobs, co-founder and Chief Executive Optimist of Life is good, asked our employees this powerful question at our recent Staff Meeting. It sure got us all thinking even more about living life (and doing work) with purpose and making optimism your state of mind. The wake of Bert’s presentation has been incredibly powerful. To have employees say they’re better people for having had the opportunity to hear him speak, to have been so inspired by his message that they now have made the Life