she recently retired as director of corporate social innovation and president of the caterpillar foundation. the philanthropic arm of the $46 billion manufacturing giant, caterpillar inc. in addition to her 30 year career holding various leadership positions at the company, she recently held transform the foundation into one of the world's most influential corporateme foundations through the launch of its collaborative impact platform known as together stronger. i catalyst for shared prosperity unites businesses, nonprofits, government and citizens to combineti this strength to alleviate poverty for millions of people p worldwide. please give a warm savannah welcome to michele sullivan. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you to savanna book festival for the fabulous event. my first time here, i absolutely love it. i'll definitely return. i also love the weather. when i left home yesterday, it was minus eight in illinois. i deeply appreciate the 60 some degrees weather today. [laughter] i also thank you for your time today. take it home and treated like it's everybody else. that's advice

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she recently retired as director of the corporate social innovation and president of the caterpillar foundation. the philanthropic arm of the 46 billion-dollar manufacturing giant, caterpillar inc.. in addition to her 30 year career (-open-paren his leadership positions at the company, she recently helped letransform the foundation into one

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she recently retired as director of corporate social innovation and president of the caterpillar foundation the philanthropic arm of the $46 billion manufacturing giant, caterpillar inc. in addition to her 30 year career holding various leadership positions at the company, she recently held transform the foundation into one of the world's most influential corporateme foundations through t