John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, has built the natural and organic grocer from a single store in Austin, Texas in 1978, into a Fortune 500 company, which went public in 1992, and was purchased by Amazon in 2017. Today Whole Foods Market is a top U.S. supermarket with more than 500 stores and 95,000 Team Members across the U.S., Canada and U.K While devoting his career to helping shoppers satisfy their lifestyle needs with quality natural and organic foods, Mackey has also focused on building a more conscious way of doing business. He was the visionary for Whole Planet...
Overview
Acton Institute president and co-founder Rev. Robert Sirico is joined for this conversation by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, as they discuss Mackey’s new book, “Conscious Leadership.” In this interview, Mackey, also the author of “Conscious Capitalism”, explains the benefits provided to society by entrepreneurs and the free market they operate within, while also discussing engaging topics like the effects of raising the federal minimum wage, Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods, and more.
