Full Name
Shaleta Dunn CPM
Title
VP, Supplier Diversity and Social Investment Impact
Organization
Vizient
Speaker Bio
She is responsible for guiding Vizient's supply chain equity and community contracting core tenets, which enable Vizient and its providers and suppliers to champion inclusion, equity, and diversity and grow local economies, thus improving community health.
She leads the development and implementation of new offerings and strategic initiatives that drive health equity while empowering minority, women, veteran, LGBT, and disability-owned businesses and impacting the patient population economically. She works closely with executive leaders, providers, suppliers, and community and advocacy groups.
Shaleta has led Vizient to implement two supplier diversity policies – enterprise-wide and GPO-wide, expanded and enhanced supplier diversity to include LGBT and disability-owned businesses, and implemented Tier II spend reporting requirements.
A recipient of the Journal of Healthcare Contracting's 10 People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting, a Corporate Catalyst Award honoree from the National Minority Supplier Development Council, and a Top 25 Women in Power Impacting Diversity, Shaleta has received many other accolades.
Shaleta is responsible for guiding the strategy and vision of Vizient’s industry-leading supply chain equity and community contracting core tenets, enabling the Vizient enterprise and providers and suppliers to champion inclusion, equity and diversity in their supply chains and accelerate economic growth in local communities, which in turn leads to increased overall community health.
Shaleta works with executive leaders, providers, suppliers, and community and advocacy organizations to lead the development of new offerings and implementation of strategic initiatives that drive health equity, empower minority-, women- veteran-owned, LGBT, and disability owned businesses while delivering significant member value and satisfaction, and economically impacting patient populations.
In her role at Vizient, Shaleta has led the organization to implement two supplier diversity policies – an enterprise-wide policy and another for the GPO, expanded and enhanced supplier diversity to also include LGBT and disability owned businesses, and implemented Tier II spend reporting requirements. She transformed the inclusion of diverse suppliers in the hospital supply chain by shifting areas of spend to local, diverse community-based suppliers through the creation of Community Contracting. She developed new strategies to address socio-economic factors that contribute to economically impacting and empowering communities and has led Vizient to be recognized as a Top Corp for women owned businesses.
Shaleta has been named on the Journal of Healthcare Contracting's list of 10 People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting, recognized by the National Minority Supplier Development Council as a Corporate Catalyst Award honoree, and one of Diversity Plus' Top 25 Women in Power Impacting Diversity, among several other recognitions.
She leads the development and implementation of new offerings and strategic initiatives that drive health equity while empowering minority, women, veteran, LGBT, and disability-owned businesses and impacting the patient population economically. She works closely with executive leaders, providers, suppliers, and community and advocacy groups.
Shaleta has led Vizient to implement two supplier diversity policies – enterprise-wide and GPO-wide, expanded and enhanced supplier diversity to include LGBT and disability-owned businesses, and implemented Tier II spend reporting requirements.
A recipient of the Journal of Healthcare Contracting's 10 People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting, a Corporate Catalyst Award honoree from the National Minority Supplier Development Council, and a Top 25 Women in Power Impacting Diversity, Shaleta has received many other accolades.
Shaleta is responsible for guiding the strategy and vision of Vizient’s industry-leading supply chain equity and community contracting core tenets, enabling the Vizient enterprise and providers and suppliers to champion inclusion, equity and diversity in their supply chains and accelerate economic growth in local communities, which in turn leads to increased overall community health.
Shaleta works with executive leaders, providers, suppliers, and community and advocacy organizations to lead the development of new offerings and implementation of strategic initiatives that drive health equity, empower minority-, women- veteran-owned, LGBT, and disability owned businesses while delivering significant member value and satisfaction, and economically impacting patient populations.
In her role at Vizient, Shaleta has led the organization to implement two supplier diversity policies – an enterprise-wide policy and another for the GPO, expanded and enhanced supplier diversity to also include LGBT and disability owned businesses, and implemented Tier II spend reporting requirements. She transformed the inclusion of diverse suppliers in the hospital supply chain by shifting areas of spend to local, diverse community-based suppliers through the creation of Community Contracting. She developed new strategies to address socio-economic factors that contribute to economically impacting and empowering communities and has led Vizient to be recognized as a Top Corp for women owned businesses.
Shaleta has been named on the Journal of Healthcare Contracting's list of 10 People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting, recognized by the National Minority Supplier Development Council as a Corporate Catalyst Award honoree, and one of Diversity Plus' Top 25 Women in Power Impacting Diversity, among several other recognitions.
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