WHAT COMES after Gatorade and Fritos? For Brock Leach, the retired CEO of Frito-Lay North America and Tropicana—a PepsiCo company—the answer is ministry. After launching some of the country’s most successful consumer products, Leach retired a decade ago from Tropicana and headed to divinity school to become a Unitarian Universalist minister. You won’t find him behind a pulpit on Sundays, though; his congregation is the world. As the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s executive consultant for mission, strategy and innovation, Leach uses his business acumen for social justice causes. He also recently launched a multi-faith initiative to organize people who are not affiliated with a religion to lead lives of integrity and purpose…………
Brock Leach, Sarasota Magazine June 2016
This excerpt was from the June 2016 issue of Sarasota Magazine. A lot has happened in the world since this article was published but as this recent You Tube clip will convey, the former CEO is mission driven to help span the idealogical divide in our country. He lays out some positive philosophies and encourages a better strategy for communicating with our fellow Americans and finding common ground.
The speech is about 20 minutes long, goes from the 18:45 mark till 41:31, so a little over 20 minutes but worth it.