Season 1 · Episode 10 · 34 min
Why Not, What If, What Else
Mark Smith CEO, Avalon Behavioral Health Solutions
Mark Smith is CEO of Avalon Behavioral Health Solutions and a chief officer three times over, including chief human resources officer of Blockbuster at 32, when the company had 45,000 employees and an HR department of two. He ranked 9th of 2,000 FBI applicants, was too young for Quantico, and went from a white collar squad in Manhattan to Pfizer, Pepsi and Blockbuster without ever planning an HR career. He walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat, why he always went where the work happens, and the three questions behind every job he has taken.
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