Meet Fred Lowery

The leadership journey of the Tennessee boy who thought he’d made it when he became a design & release engineer for General Motors, he was wrong, that was just the beginning. Meet the man who progressed from GM to Maytag to become the Senior Vice President and President for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Life Sciences Solutions and Laboratory Products business, and in April 2019 appointed as a member of the DuPont Board of Directors and was recently named one of the most influential people in the fight against COVID 1903:31 – Fred’s story09:41 – Keeping the edge14:23 – Do you stay or leave the plant when COVID19 hits?17:16 –  Creating the high-performance team20:46 – Tearing down the walls23:47 – Getting to trust27:34 – Diversity & inclusion29:59 - Reverse mentoring31:25 – The Pandemic – what we’ve learned34:51 – Speed at scale39:45 – Gravitas50:55 – Starting the day55:09 – Advice to your 25yr old self59:57 – The board member perspective1:03:55 – The legacy