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This week our guest is Sharon Orlopp – formerly the SVP of HR and Global Chief Diversity Officer for WalMart.  Today, she is an author and continues her work as a leader in human resources for Core Scientific and Orangetheory Fitness.  

We cover a range of issues from mentoring, to the role of diversity in innovation, to proactive goal setting, to the lessons she learned from her parents and how her experiences as a child set her on a path to leadership within one of the largest retailers in the world.  She recently released “Standing Up After Saigon” which she co-wrote with Thuhang Tran.  The book tells Tran’s story of resilience, courage and survival as she faced polio and life in Saigon after its fall in the Vietnam War…and Sharon shares more detail about the book and how it came about in our conversation.

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