I interviewed Verona Dorch | Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary at Providence Health on Monday, August 17th, 2020.

We discussed several topics such as:

• Her Move to the frontlines of the war on Covid  
• Her time at Peabody Energy and Leading in Crisis
• Streamlining Outside Counsel from 100+ firms to 12
• Requiring Diversity with Outside Counsel
• How she joined a For-Profit Board  
• Leadership and Those Who Have Helped Her
• Inspiring words for Women and Diverse Attorneys 
• Her Family Immigration Story

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Links referred to in this episode:

• Verona Dorch | LinkedIn Profile
• National Diversity Council | 2020's Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Oil and Gas
• Financial Times | The FT Global GC 20 List
• Black Enterprise Magazine | 2019 List of the Most Powerful Women in Corporate America
• American Bar Foundation
• AdvanceLaw Website
• Law.com Article | Big Company GCs Sign On as Mentors to Foster Big Law Diversity
• Firoz Dattu | Chairman at AdvanceLaw
• Director's Academy Website
• Marsha Simms | Partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges
• Lloyd Johnson | Minority Corporate Counsel Association Founder
• Michele Coleman Mayes | General Counsel & Secretary at New York Public Library
• Tom Sabatino | Previous General Counsel of Aetna & Hertz
• James D. White | Co-Founder & Board Chairman of Director's Academy
• Alfreda Bradley-Coar | CEO and Founder of The Bradley-Coar Group
• Nancy Jessen | Executive Vice President, Enterprise Legal Transformation at UnitedLex Corporation
• Michael Watkins | The First 90 Days
• Phil Jackson | Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
• Michelle Obama | Becoming
• Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart