"it's great to be here to talk to you today um I you heard all my background and I'd be happy to talk to that in the Q&A session as much as you'd like uh probably one of my uh proudest accomplishments ..."

"not all the same and I think uh we have a lot to demonstrate that some bad examples are not the ones we should follow so what does that mean for all of you um I think more now more than ever there are..."

"glamorous job you know it certainly taught me a lot now I have the opportunity to uh opportunity is an opportunity to lead s Lee which uh roughly 44,000 people worth $ 13 billion in global sales and y..."

"because you're setting the course for the future but the pressure on the short term is just extraordinary you know I I think all of you see it read it about it but it's you know quarterly earnings it'..."

"during that time period in the last four years we sold or spun off 40% of the business so we went from a 20 billion down to you know today roughly 13 billion business and that included our apparel ope..."

"to stay committed to it so in this time period we've grown our core Brands and we're gaining market share in in key geographies and in key categories but unfortunately right now it's not reflected in ..."

"modifications I'm not saying we're staying true to every element of our plan but in an environment like this you have to look at things a little differently and so we need to reduce costs even more an..."

"govern good governance which you read a lot about these days it doesn't just mean regulations and policies which there are plenty of right now because even if the same rules and policies were in place..."

"sitting around the table so at Sarah Lee we believe that talent management shouldn't just focus on employees it should Encompass the board as well so we've changed our board as a company has changed i..."

"in as a CEO so now that you have the right people in the right environment working on the board um it's the strategy that guides us and I'm sure you take a lot of classes on strategy um you really hav..."

"resulted increase shareholder value as we execute our plan which brings me to my next point which is about operations now many would argue that the most important component of company's ability to get..."

"know are we all operating in common cultures ours is based on the values of teamwork Integrity imagination inclusiveness and a passion to excel when we hire people if they can't pass the culture test ..."

"make things happen I I would I argue that there isn't a person serly that couldn't quote that for you they know their own personal role they know the importance of innovation and they know the importa..."

"cord in a need for people but when the media was interviewing me on this they'd say why would you introduce returnships now you know the economy is bad why are you doing this and with all that's going..."

"post-mba careers you're going to have to deal with this economy as well you know it's certainly not over in the next year or two so there are a few things I just want to share about what have I learne..."

"with our continuous Improvement effort we had a very strong Co cost focus and a lean mindset across the company and we've been successful last four years hundreds of millions of dollars have come out ..."

"you know you listen dayto day but we we conducted an engagement survey um about six months ago and first time we ever did it to 100% of the population and and we got more than 90% participation all th..."

"be people who saw opportunity and others who saw only crisis people who saw Solutions where others saw only problems and they'll come from all levels of the organization and they're going to have diff..."

"I now feel that I at least have a Ro to play to to make it seem that you can you can make it work over time uh oh hi Brenda hi Alex um so from the time you took off to uh spend with your family I was ..."

"would miss me um it's it is a balancing act though that's what it is you have to juggle it make it work yes um you mentioned that you maintained a conservative balance sheet and that has obviously bee..."

"yes and you said everybody knows the vision how how did you impart that on everybody yeah C culture is the hardest thing how do you change the culture is that fair um culture is the hardest thing to c..."

"step to really get it down to each local level you know some of our divisions are way ahead and some little work groups are way behind and so if we can Target where we need more Improvement we can wor..."

"it yes so I'm wondering when you when you put your emphasis on the long term and thinking in the next 5 or 10 years what sort of big themes do you see um facing s Le and how do you go about the proces..."

"these big not only internation National companies but International companies yes back here your decision to to leave pep what are some other critical decisions that you had to make and how have you g..."

"move into a sales job and it was actually a lower level job and it was in the Northeast and it was the head of sales for our on premise division which was you know taking syrup to Fountain accounts yo..."

"right reasons I did it so I left and when I came back I didn't have there wasn't a role that same role was gone and but Pepsi let me come back to work they just didn't have this same job for me so the..."

"finally said forget the 12% we're just going to make progress we'll tell you when we get there and the whole question of guidance to the external world is a is a big subject you know you probably can'..."