Brad Stulberg

Yeah, it's been a really circuitous path, to be honest.

I've always just kind of vaguely followed my interests and somehow ended up here.

I'll do my best to do it quickly, but it really started all the way back in high school

when I fell in love with writing.

And like most high school kids, I thought, OK, well, I'm going to be a writer.

And I applied to Northwestern University's journalism school, which is one of the best in the country, if not in the world, and I didn't get in.

And again, like most 16, 17-year-old kids, I said, oh, all right, I guess I'm not going to be a writer.

And I went on to a different school.

I studied economics and psychology.

And I then took a job at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

And throughout school, throughout that first early job experience, what I didn't realize is that I was actually always writing.

So even at a place like McKinsey, I was never the person building the financial model.

I was always the person doing the memo for the client or coming up with the PowerPoint slide deck, telling some sort of story.

And when I was at McKinsey and Company, I became really interested in health and healthcare.

And I got a bird's eye view to all the ways that our healthcare system, at least here in America, is not the best.

So that led me to public health school.

And it was there that I kind of had this aha moment, at least for myself, that there's really two ways to go about health care.

One is the care part, which is often disease driven.

And the other is the health part, which is, well, how do we stay healthy?

How do we thrive?