133  0 Kommentare From Adversity to Opportunity

When Maria Lensing was 14 years old, she moved to the U.S. from Peru to support her youngest brother who was fighting for his life.

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Juan Diego was 8 years old and battling leukemia when doctors in Peru gave him the wrong treatment.

"They told my parents he was going to die," she says.

On the recommendation of a family friend, Lensing's parents called St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Lensing says the hospital didn't take patients who have already been treated, but Juan Diego was an exception because of his unique circumstances: He had cancer and a brain injury, which was the result of the faulty treatment he received.

Lensing's parents took Juan Diego to the U.S, first, and then she and her other brother followed six months later. As a result of the faulty treatment, Juan Diego is partially paralyzed.

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Lensing says her brother who centers her and is the inspiration and motivation for her work as a change agent - a role she's embracing at Walgreens Boots Alliance as the Strategy and Transformation Officer of Technology. Her mission is personal: to help transform WBA into a healthcare company that fixes what traditional healthcare gets wrong.

"I take care of a brother who cannot talk, cannot walk, cannot take care of himself," she says. "So, if I'm going to walk, I better walk with purpose. If I'm going to talk, then I better speak truth. When you have that daily reminder of how lucky you are, it's hard not to have a passion for change, a passion for disrupting the status quo."

To fulfill her purpose, Lensing has relied on wisdom she's gleaned over many years from family, mentors and others. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, she's sharing some of that advice and how it has shaped her personally and professionally.

'Competency is the greatest equalizer'

When Lensing speaks, confidence pours out of her and fills the room. She attributes this confidence to knowledge, and she says she learned to prioritize education at an early age: her father had two PhDs and her mother had an MBA. Her mother wanted to be a lawyer, but her family didn't allow women to pursue law degrees.