TEDx Talks | How Supply Chains Taught Me the Power of Purchase | Kristin Malek | TEDxLogan Circle @TEDx | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Over the last several years, stories about snarled supply chains featured prominently in our economic news. But supply chains aren’t just logistics problems for businesses to iron out. Kristin, a recognized expert in business diversity, explains how thinking critically about supply chains can help businesses and consumers tap into a world of unique perspectives, foster job creation, and provide meaningful opportunities in places that badly need them. Kristin Malek serves as the Director of Business Diversity at CDW. In this role, Malek has firmly established an innovative business diversity strategy that aligns with CDW’s core values. As the architect of CDW’s diverse supply chain with more than 1100+ suppliers, Malek ensures CDW’s continued investment in diversity, equality, and inclusion within their businesses. She is responsible for the firm’s total spend with diverse partners that in 2022 alone reached more than $3Billion. Under Kristin’s leadership, CDW was inducted into the prestigious Billion Dollar Roundtable and was named a Supplier Diversity Excellence Champion by Gartner. Malek is a member of the National Minority Supplier Diversity Council (NMSDC), an advisory board member for Chicago Blend, and serves as Vice Chair of the Chicago Minority Supplier Diversity Council.
Malek is mother to two young girls and fosters their curiosity, independence and education but most of all grit and a will to succeed. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Over the last several years, stories about snarled supply chains featured prominently in our economic news. But supply chains aren’t just logistics problems for businesses to iron out. Kristin, a recognized expert in business diversity, explains how thinking critically about supply chains can help businesses and consumers tap into a world of unique perspectives, foster job creation, and provide meaningful opportunities in places that badly need them. Kristin Malek serves as the Director of Business Diversity at CDW. In this role, Malek has firmly established an innovative business diversity strategy that aligns with CDW’s core values. As the architect of CDW’s diverse supply chain with more than 1100+ suppliers, Malek ensures CDW’s continued investment in diversity, equality, and inclusion within their businesses. She is responsible for the firm’s total spend with diverse partners that in 2022 alone reached more than $3Billion. Under Kristin’s leadership, CDW was inducted into the prestigious Billion Dollar Roundtable and was named a Supplier Diversity Excellence Champion by Gartner. Malek is a member of the National Minority Supplier Diversity Council (NMSDC), an advisory board member for Chicago Blend, and serves as Vice Chair of the Chicago Minority Supplier Diversity Council.
Malek is mother to two young girls and fosters their curiosity, independence and education but most of all grit and a will to succeed. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
