Dr. Shell Bird is a serial entrepreneur and former Fortune 500 C-Suite executive with global marketing, strategy, business transformation, issues management, and policy/CSR/ESG experience across multiple industries. She is a builder who operates at the intersection of business, culture, and technology. Whether that involves building teams, services, processes, commercial models, or brands, her passions are leading large-scale change and mobilizing people around a common purpose.Having lived in seven countries, Shell has a deep appreciation of culture and context. She thrives in complexity and is recognized for seeing connections in seemingly disparate circumstances.Shell spent ten years at Cardinal Health (revenues of $162B and 44K employees in 30 countries), as an Executive Vice President and member of the Executive Leadership Team where she led a portfolio of enterprise-wide shared services. She also served as Chief of Staff advising the Chairman and CEO, and as Board Chair of the Cardinal Health Foundation. She then returned to a portfolio career as an entrepreneur, strategic advisor, and investor in early-stage companies. As a private investor in more than twenty-five companies and an LP in several funds, her focus is on cybersecurity, digital health and life sciences, agtech, marketplaces, transportation, and new models for social media. During her career, she has guided organizations through product and culture transitions, infrastructure restructuring, and acquisitions ranging from $20 million to over $1 billion -- integrating people and processes, while abating financial and reputation impact. She has launched many "firsts," including the first cell phone with voice recognition, the first RFID asset management solution, the first satellite entertainment network in Asia, and the first McDonald's restaurant in China. Shell has served on many non-profit boards and advisory boards of startups and privately held companies. She has won numerous business and civic awards and is a frequent lecturer on leading in complexity, organizational transformation and culture, crisis management, and strategy as storytelling. Additionally, she is a narrative medicine facilitator, a practice used to strengthen empathy and curiosity, equipping clinicians to better understand patients' experiences to deliver effective and equitable care.
Listed skills include Leadership, Strategic Communications, Management, Internal Communications, and 12 others.