Anne Klibanski

Now, one thing could be patients who are being taken care of want to see people who look like them.

They want to know that the perspectives that they bring are the perspectives that are known and shared and are visible and have a voice.

And those are all important.

Those are incredibly important goals within healthcare and incredibly important goals in many organizations.

But that diversity of thought, background, experience, values, culture, no matter what that is, how fundamentally important is that for making progress in any organization?

And again, I would say it is extremely important.

And at the heart of so many calcified, ossified, non-diversified groups, companies, whatever,

It's just that there is no one there to challenge and question in ways that might not have been thought of otherwise.

I can't imagine a world of research and innovation where you have a single group with a single discipline with a single mindset looking at one problem.

We wouldn't get anywhere.

That is actually the opposite of what it takes to make progress.

And I think people understand that.

And yet, when we look at people within a room or within groups, we often revert to what's familiar.

I'd say that one of the things that has most governed a lot of my career has been how do I have more impact?

I guess one way to approach it is when I'm thinking back and I started my training, I was very, very passionate about clinical care.

And I love taking care of patients.

I love the impact you could have on a patient, on their families, on their lives.

And that kind of very one-to-one immediate impact was just extremely gratifying.

It was extremely...

wonderful.