Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Michelle Wright. Michelle begins the conversation by talking about what it means to play the long game. She has always lived in Maryland, and for nearly thirty of those years, she was a senior executive at Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield. To play the long game, it must be interesting.

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Nadine Hauf. Nadine begins the conversation with a look into how she developed an innovative technology hub for health plan members. A place where people can come into the care system and understand what is available to them. She built this hub at a time when there was no playbook to look to, so innovation began with an idea and a blank piece of paper.

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Karen Walker Johnson. Karen begins the conversation by talking about her path to sorting out retirement. What Laurie learned from Karen is that she is exceptional at just about everything she has ever set her mind to, with the minor exception of retirement. Welcome to Karen Walker Johnson’s world of “reWIREment.”

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Carla Harris. THE Carla Harris: a renowned international public speaker who joined Laurie to share her pearls of wisdom on career success. This is the first of the 2024 WBL series where Laurie and Carla are joined by a live audience of senior executive women in healthcare. “There is NO question where I will not have a prescriptive answer,” Carla said, and she most certainly lived up to that promise.

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Women Priya Bathija, Jhaymee Tynan, and Phoebe Yang at the WBL (Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation) Annual Summit. A consultant and two lawyers walk into a room. What happens? They leave as friends with a renewed commitment to DEI.

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Tuyet DesJean at the WBL (Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation) Annual Summit. A daughter of immigrants, an infant refugee whose parents went from the boat to the camp in pursuit of something better. Every day Tuyet looks at that family picture by her desk, herself as an infant, her young parents (17 and 21 at the time), and is reminded. And she is grateful. And what she knows today and knows deeply, is that she is more than what her parents dreamed of and so much more.