In this episode of Charge the Wave with Tai Chung, we welcome Fara Palumbo, Former Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, a leader in delivering innovative health care products, services, and information to 3.8 million members.
Tune in to this episode as Fara talks about:
- her path to becoming a Chief People Officer
- the importance of relationship building
- her key piece of advice for those holding a leadership role
- the importance of changing personally as the company changes
About Fara Palumbo
Fara Palumbo is the Former Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, a leader in delivering innovative health care products, services, and information to 3.8 million members.
Throughout her career, she has focused on transforming the talent and culture of teams through a focus on innovation, diversity, and change leadership. During her tenure at Blue Cross NC, Fara has led the transformation of the company’s talent strategy, delivering a compelling and credible employment value proposition and leading cultural change to enable and sustain long-term business growth.
She has been honored by the Triangle Business Journal in their inaugural class of C-Suite award winners, which recognizes excellence in corporate leadership and community service.
Learn more about Fara:
Connect with Fara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farapalumbo/
About the Charge the Wave Podcast
Footnote 4 presents its Charge the Wave podcast – focused on entrepreneurs, executives, and icons who are assiduously building companies, cultures, and communities.
Charge the Wave aims to uncover the personal stories and anecdotes from inspiring builders and trailblazers in their respective professions and dig into the formative moments, hard-fought lessons, and circuitous voyages that are woven into the fabric of the everyday, interesting journeys of our fellow wayfarers.
Charge the Wave is focused on the industrious pioneers who are navigating the choppy waters of the unknown, rising and grinding everyday to face the endless uphill climb.
Charge the Wave is singularly focused on:
Inspiring entrepreneurs — who are building startups, battling the unstable seas to discover product-market fit, and aiming to launch innovative products and services to successfully cross the chasm into successful commercialization.
Influential executives — who’ve had winding career paths, weathered the storms and wreckages, and built resilient and high-performing crews and organizations.
Iconic individuals — who are becoming authors of their destinies and master navigators by wayfinding, sidewinding, wandering, and perfecting their craft, charting new courses to make an indelible mark in the world.
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Footnote 4 has had a front-row seat to many recent successes in the last several years, both advising and consulting for incredible individuals and teams who have risen above their stations, by building high-performance crews and cultures — and carving their own paths throughout various industries along the way. Footnote 4 dedicates Charge the Wave to the late Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968), the greatest waterman, pioneer, and American icon of our time.
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