From Football to Pharmacy: Warren Moore’s Journey from Boilermaker to Board Room

Isabella Tobin:

You’re listening to Living the Pharm Life, the official podcast of Purdue University’s college of pharmacy. I’m your host, Isabella Tobin, a PharmD candidate with a passion for telling the stories of our college’s phenomenal and loyal students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends who persistently pursue excellence in all they do.

Warren Moore is currently serving as the vice president of dedicated delivery at Walmart, where he plays a key role in driving innovative logistics and ensuring the smooth delivery of services to customers. A highly accomplished individual, Warren’s journey to corporate leadership began at Purdue University where he made his mark, both as a talented football player and a dedicated student in the Purdue College of Pharmacy. Listen to his remarkable journey of growth and success, highlighting how the lessons learned during his college years continue to impact his career and leadership philosophy today. Warren Moore, thank you so much for being here today on Living the Pharm Life. I’m really excited to hear about your story and I’m sure the audience is too.

Warren Moore:

Awesome. Happy to be here. Nice to meet you in person as well, and looking forward to having a good time.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. Thank you so much. So football player and aspiring pharmacist, can you take us back to that time in your life?

Warren Moore:

Oh, man. I tell people I signed up for that. I would do it again. I don’t know if it was a moment in time to be able to pull that off given the rigors today. But came to Purdue from Memphis, Tennessee with aspirations to play football at a high level, and my educational pursuits were just as high. And had settled on the College of Pharmacy, had a great visit with the counselor over there, Ms. Jimerson. And from football to pharmacy, it felt like home. And when I look back on that time, it makes all the challenges, all the obstacles, all the pursuits, all the achievements, so much worth it. It was a great time.

Isabella Tobin:

Can you tell me one of your favorite memories from that time?

Warren Moore:

Oh, favorite memory. I was taking one in pharmacy school first. When I think about what we did to have a sense of community and what we did in multicultural programs, we would have luncheons where we had cuisines from all over the world represented. And it spoke to the diversity that you find in healthcare and in our college. And then when I think back to football, my first thoughts are always my first freshman camp when my parents brought me up, dropped me off the union, and we then went to camp, the freshmen reported before the seniors. And so building those relationships with friends that last today. And then obviously ending my last game was the Rose Bowl. So those would be how I would book end these memories that I’ve had here.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. Oh my gosh. That’s fantastic. Especially looking at that whole football career, even with ignoring all of your accomplishments in pharmacy first of all, just looking at that football career, starting at that freshman camp, I can’t say I’ve ever done football, but with band camp we had the same set up, freshman report first, so I can relate at least there. But then ending in the Rose Bowl, that has to be incredible looking back on those years in your life. That’s absolutely amazing.

Warren Moore:

And I tell people you can … And I book end it that way, but there’s so much that happens in the middle and it’s always the journey and not the destination. And so whether it was three a day practices that we did back then to 6:00 A.M. workouts in the spring to my internships that I had with Sharon Plow, and so the countless professors. I had professors that came to my wedding. And so you just have the relationships, the journey and everything that you build in between that form these bonds and these memories that shape you and they cause you to come back to this place. Think of it with fondness and try to contribute and get back and inspire the next generation as well.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. How did you land on pharmacy?

Warren Moore:

It’s interesting. My mom’s a nurse, so had the healthcare push from mom. I originally thought I would do accounting because my dad worked for the IRS. But I landed on healthcare. I laugh and tell people I love math and science. No one could tell me what engineering was at the time. And so we landed on healthcare with pharmacy and I found out that I loved it actually after I got into the college. So I had pharmacy when I took my recruiting visits. Purdue won out there. And then when I got into the college, and I tell people when I experienced therapeutics for the first time where you have patient cases and you get to use data to make the best decision for the best outcome, I fell in love with it. And to this day, I’ve stepped away from pharmacy day to day practice. But I have a wife, Aneasha, she’s a pharmacist as well, and so she keeps me grounded. She still works and takes care of patients each and every day.

Isabella Tobin:

She brings you the day to day, the lower level overviews.

Warren Moore:

She called me the executive. She’ll tell people she’s the real pharmacist and I’m executive pharmacist these days. So that’s it.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. So my dad does information security. He does computer stuff. When I was in high school, I thought I was going to do that at first. And looking back, I tried to take a coding class here. Could not take the coding class here. So it’s pretty good for me that I didn’t follow my dad. Probably pretty good. You didn’t follow yours. Look at all the things you’re doing in pharmacy now.

Warren Moore:

And I think kids now, all of my kids, they will say they want to be Purdue grads, and so they want to follow Purdue, but then they’ll say, “I don’t want to be a pharmacist.” So I think that’s right. So still there’s passion and love for what parents do, but sometimes you’re grateful that they want to blaze their own trail and find out what matters to them. And so you celebrate it the same. And I’m sure your dad celebrates that with you as well.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. My dad is one of my biggest supporters, and I have three younger siblings. I don’t have any kids of my own, but I have three younger siblings, and so I’m with you where I don’t want them to be pharmacists. If they wanted to be a pharmacist, I’m all for it, but they don’t want to be pharmacists.

Warren Moore:

Now, Isabella, this is a pharmacy podcast.

Isabella Tobin:

I know. I know.

Warren Moore:

I will say I do think that there’s great chances and great opportunities for sure. But I think that there’s just something about knowing yourself and picking what speaks to you. I have one, Ariel that’s a nurse. I have Aubrey, the 15-year-old. She’s thinking about being a cardiologist from stuff that’s happening. And then I even have some that want to be … One, Addison, I should say, that wants to be a law enforcement, FBI and all that. So they forge their own trails. And I think as parents, we owe it to them to pour into them. So I will encourage you when the time is right, have at least one. One kid, one child. It helps you as a leader, as a person, I think, to have empathy and compassion for others and responsibility for rearing people that can be good, productive citizens as well.

Isabella Tobin:

I got to wait until these three younger siblings grow up first. I’m still pushing. I have a nurse too. And then we’ve got a social worker. My brother wants to be a firefighter right now. He’s the one that my mom keeps saying, “Well, he could look into healthcare too. He could go to the pharmacy school.” And he’s the one that I’m like, “If you want to be a firefighter, be a firefighter, buddy.”

Warren Moore:

We still always hold our hopes.

Isabella Tobin:

Oh, of course.

Warren Moore:

You try to nudge him to healthcare.

Isabella Tobin:

I’m like, “Well, pharmacists are pretty cool,” but he’s dead set, I’m being a firefighter. But going back to Purdue, you said your kids are interested in Purdue. What got you interested in it?

Warren Moore:

It was my official visits. I had a teammate who was a year ahead of me that Purdue was recruiting for football and they started recruiting me. And I tell people, it was actually my last official visit. I did University of Louisville, University of Memphis, North Carolina State, and then Purdue. And I tell people when I hit Chauncey Hill on my ride end and Leroy Keyes was driving me in on campus, it just felt right. It felt like home. And the next couple of days cemented that from meeting with coaching staff to meeting with players on the team to meeting with Ms. Jimerson over a pharmacy school. I never thought about Indiana, never thought about Purdue. I had known about Purdue because of Glenn Big Dog Robinson playing basketball. But when my parents heard Big 10, they was like, “Go Big 10.” And I’m glad that my visits and my own experiences led me here, and it’s been great ever since.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. I had a very similar experience without the football, obviously. But it was pretty much, I drove up that hill and I was like, “Wow. This is a really nice campus.” And then I got to talking with everybody here and I was like, “I guess I’m going to move to Indiana now.” I’m not from Indiana. I never thought I was going to move to Indiana. I told all my friends back home, senior year of high school, I was like, “I’m going to Purdue.” And they said, “Is that in the United States?” So a similar experience there. So now with pharmacy and football, especially being at Purdue, a Big 10 school, that must have had a lot of difficulty associated with it. Could you talk about how you managed all of those expectations?

Warren Moore:

Yeah. I was just telling a group of students that you learn how to be at your best in each and every situation. So when you were in a classroom, your professors wanted your best. They didn’t care about what was happening over here In football. When you’re in the weight room, your strength coach wants you to give it all and hit your PRs and give your maxes. And then when you’re on the field, your position coach and head coach wants you to perform because their livelihood is tied to that. So you learn how to give your best. And then what I learned is that you try not to introduce anything into your schedule that is not productive. If you’re supposed to be at a meeting, don’t miss the meeting because if you do, you’re going to have to do 6:00 A.M. running if you’re supposed to be at treatment, get treatment. And so it was working the schedule.

And I’ll tell you that it was good that our blocks lined up where pharmacy classes were general during the day and your football block was in the afternoon. And so you would have to understand how do you go, how do you be rigorous? How do I attend a class every day? Because we didn’t have video options at that time. We had a little audio. So I took meticulous notes and I was there at class every day. And so you can perform when you needed to. And then you found out the ways to have your outlets, whether it was playing video games with my teammates around Madden or NBA. And so you find and pick and choose. You figure out which weekends you want to go out because every weekend the party are all the same so you’re not missing something if you miss one or the other. So I think it’s a balance of how do you give your best. It’s a balance of being committed to what’s in front of you. And it’s also that balance of knowing how to have outlets in order to make sure you can recharge as well. And I learned all that on the fly and it serves me well today in everything that I do.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. How do you keep everything straight? So I am a very type A person. I got my color coded Google calendar. I’m thinking you didn’t have one of those back when you were here.

Warren Moore:

No.

Isabella Tobin:

So how did you keep it all straight?

Warren Moore:

And it wasn’t that long ago. Just stuff has evolved quick.

Isabella Tobin:

Of course. Of course. I’m just saying my Google … I can’t live without my color coded Google Calendar.

Warren Moore:

You’ll laugh at this. We had this thing for Purdue grads that have been around. We had this thing called a mortarboard. And it’s where you actually wrote your calendar down. I actually thought that that made you lazy. I didn’t write down a lot of things. I actually had my schedule from exams and stuff memorized. It was wild, right?

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah.

Warren Moore:

I knew which days I knew which days I had to lift. I knew which days my meeting with my position coach was on. Obviously knew schedule for school and test that way. So I tried to find everything to make me sharp and not depend on it. Now I have since let that go.

Isabella Tobin:

Okay.

Warren Moore:

I have one calendar today and my assistant at work, she does an awesome job, but I tell my wife, Aneasha, if you want me to be somewhere, make sure you talk to Bernice. And so that way it gets on the calendar and I can be there so I can make all the important dates. But yeah, when I was here, I tried to keep it all there, just try to stay sharp.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. I can’t believe you were out there memorizing your therapeutics notes as well as your entire schedule.

Warren Moore:

Well, I didn’t memorize those. I took them meticulously so I can go back. I will tell you this though. We had a lot of night tests. I don’t know if you-

Isabella Tobin:

No. We do day tests now.

Warren Moore:

Okay. So we had night tests. The rule was you could get out of practice 30 minutes before your test. And so if you had a test at 6:00, at 5:30 the coach was come and say, “You can leave.” That meant at that time, I had to go cut off my tape, take off equipment, take a shower, grab a dinner on the way out and get to your class in 30 minutes. And so you go from running blitz packages and facing double teams to going in and about molecular chemistry, medicinal pharmacology. So yeah, it was interesting.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah .that sounds intense. Not to be like, “I’m just a pharmacist, but I don’t do that.” And I already feel like pharmacy school is pretty intense, so I can’t even imagine the amount of self-discipline and everything that you have.

Warren Moore:

So how do you manage your discipline today? Obviously you came in, you’ve done a lot, you are doing things like this podcast. Talk to me about how you manage your discipline today.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. Definitely. I got my color coded Google Calendar. Every single thing I do goes on that calendar. It irritates my friends because I send to them calendar invites. It’ll be like, “Oh. Do you guys want to go to the mall with me?” And they’ll be like, “Sure.” I’m like, “Okay. We’re going to the mall tomorrow.” Calendar invite. And they get an email for, “Do you want to accept Isabella’s calendar invitation to go to the mall?” And they’re like, “You don’t need to do this.” I’m like, “Yes, I do.” Because this is a record of all of the things I’ve ever done in my life as in that Google calendar. So we’ve talked about how challenging everything was. Were there any specific challenges you faced during your time at Purdue and how did you overcome those?

Warren Moore:

Yeah. Probably the biggest was the injuries you go through high school. Never really had any major injuries. When I came to Purdue and first year red shirted, my redshirt freshman year, toward the end, I started on the defensive line and before the IU game, I dislocated this right elbow.

Isabella Tobin:

Wow.

Warren Moore:

And so that was on the Thursday. We were normally in shorts, but we were really excited, amped up, we call it right for IU. And that hurt. It cost me some bold game time. And then you talked about earlier kneecap dislocation. I had that to happen at the end of my sophomore year into my junior year. And so I didn’t letter my junior year because I balloted and had knee surgery coming off that and then came back senior year. So I tell people injuries, and during that time when you’re playing sports, if you are away from the team, that’s a tough thing to battle because you’re outside, you’re rehabbing away and you’re missing out on those moments a lot of time.

When I think about within the College of Pharmacy, we went through a curriculum change for my class when we got right into the professional school. And so there was no blueprint around how you go through it. The professors were learning at the time, and Dean Barker today was Dr. Barker back then. He was a professor of mine. And he gave me the hardest test that I’ve ever had in my life, and I still remember it. It was in MCMP and we did it during class, but I thought we needed more time than the class time allotted for the type of questions they gave us. And so that became one of the things we laugh about today when he had to come ask me for that test and the look that I gave him at that time.

But curriculum changes were challenging because again, no one had done it before. And then I tell people just the rigor of pharmacy school itself. You know that if you don’t pass a class, you’re automatically a year behind because it’s offered once a year. And for me it was let’s make sure that we continue on, especially while on scholarship there. So I would say on both fronts you battle through. But then those challenges, those things you overcome, whether it’s in football where you come back in your last game, you get to walk into the Rose Bowl Stadium and you compete after winning a big championship or in six years you graduate with a PharmD that gives you access in the life that you have today. So it was all worth it, but those were probably a few challenges that all come to mind right away.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. Especially I know a lot of people come to college, they’re young, they feel invincible, and so it can sometimes be that first injury you get anytime in college, especially if you’re playing a sport that makes you realize that maybe I’m not as invincible as I thought I was. I know that was definitely what happened to me when I had dislocated my knee jogging in marching band practice. So not as exciting as a football sports injury, but it’s definitely one of those that you learn that you’re not invincible. And with the curriculum change and everything, I learned that everyone is doing things for the first time. This is everyone’s first life. But what were some valuable things you learned from these experiences and just your time at Purdue? If you could take a lesson away, what would it be?

Warren Moore:

Gosh, I would say the first is just how important relationships are. When I think back again to the last I had at that first freshman camp. When I think about us when we’re in the locker room sleeping in between three-a-day practices. When I think about 6:00 A.M. workouts and us running stairwells with the doors closed and a little bit of oxygen there. And then I think about the big victories like beating Ohio State and Michigan in the same year. I think about beating Notre Dame. I think about the comebacks we had against Michigan State. All of these things are these memories and things that you take away. It’s a fun set of experiences. I think they are unique as well. And so relationships that are built through all that is probably a theme that I’ll take away there.

And then this notion, again, like I said, on how you be your best at every chance you get. Purdue demands that, playing in the Big 10 demands that. Pharmacy curriculum demands that. And if you can have that idea where I can build relationships with you and I’m going to give you my best, I think it helps you in marriage, it helps you in parenting, it helps you in leading teams. And so those lessons are the two that all I highlight.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. Thank you so much for sharing that. We’ve talked a lot about your time here at Purdue. Transition to what you’re doing now. Could you tell me a little bit about that?

Warren Moore:

Yeah. So I’m a pharmacist by training. I’ve been 23 years with Walmart. And the last two years have been spent in last mile delivery. Okay. So what is last mile delivery? It’s moving goods from our store to customer’s homes. And so I get to do things today likely InHome. We have an opportunity where we can stock your refrigerator while you’re not home.

Isabella Tobin:

Oh, wow.

Warren Moore:

Yeah. So if you are a Walmart Plus member and get InHome, we can stock your refrigerator. We do that. And I get to play the gamut. We are fiercely supportive of our associates, so I get to do associate safety and training. I get to pick the vehicle and the form factor we use to deliver those goods and then I focus and anchor on what the customers are telling us so that we can get better. And then the last thing I’m doing right now too, I’m doing some work around drone delivery. And so we’re expanding and looking at how drones give this ultra-fast delivery in the last mile to win that moment. So innovation. I think the theme still with healthcare is people and customer focus, and then how do you use data to solve problems and innovate in spaces. So it’s been an amazing journey here at Walmart.

Isabella Tobin:

Could you tell me how you got to this position? From Purdue graduate to now, how’d you get here?

Warren Moore:

Yeah. I spent a lot of time in healthcare. I actually came and practiced as a pharmacist for four years in our stores and then got into management. I did all of our field level positions when it comes to health and wellness. And when we think about health and wellness as our pharmacy and vision center operations. So I’ve led 12 to 14 stores. Then I got a regional director role. I led anywhere from a hundred to 200 stores. And then moved to a senior director divisional where I led up to 700 stores. And at one point had coverage for our neighborhood market pharmacy format for the entire US. So I did a lot of operation, traveled across the US, moved three times in four years with the company and then moved to Bentonville, Arkansas in 2014 and had a bunch of relationships and experience through our business.

And I tell people if it’s not … When you think about our core business pharmacy and vision center outside of merchandising and contracting, I’ve led or worked in all of those. So innovation, I’ve ran call centers and optical labs, I’ve done billing and reconciliation, workforce planning. And so just had a lot of tools been added to the toolbox. And then after doing that type work, we have a company that gives opportunities. And the opportunity came for me to have to move over here and do something totally different. And I think that speaks to how you want to stretch yourself and make sure that you’re not afraid to give up something that you feel comfortable in and have done your whole life to make a pivot that would allow you to have something that you couldn’t think of beyond today.

Isabella Tobin:

Did you ever foresee this happening, especially when you were a Purdue pharmacy student? Could you have predicted the trajectory of your life?

Warren Moore:

No. I tell people that at one point five years, I had reached all the goals that I had set because it was that narrow of a lens. What I’m doing today, no one in my family has done within a corporation. And so there wasn’t a blueprint. The thing that I love about coming back and speaking to students is because we get to show them everything that’s possible. And every year I come back and speak to Dr. Scott’s leadership class. This year had the opportunity to speak to the Dean’s Forum. And I think that’s the magic of bringing back alumni who’ve had all of these twists throughout their career so people can dream and understand what’s possible. At that time, no, I thought I would go into industry and I ended up in retail. The common theme between retail and the industry was this opportunity to grow and not get stagnant and be able to move across. And my career has lended itself to doing that throughout all the different roles that I’ve had. And so no, couldn’t have imagined it. And so I always tell people I’m extremely blessed and look forward to the next few years and still stuff to come for sure.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. Thank you so much for sharing that, especially as a student who has the whole trajectory of my career ahead, I love hearing that things aren’t always as they seem, and it’s not always as you think it’s going to be. Especially I’m a big planner and it’s unsettling, but also comforting to know, can’t always plan everything out. It’s tough. So one of your past positions, not one you hold now, was vice president of Social determinants of health.

Warren Moore:

That’s correct.

Isabella Tobin:

We talk a lot about social determinants of health in the pharmacy program, about how those are such an important, sometimes barrier for patients trying to get medical care and how we as pharmacists have such a huge role in helping our patients with those social determinants. Could you talk about how your role … What your role was, how it influenced healthcare, those things?

Warren Moore:

Yeah. When you think about it, I think we’ve gotten smarter in healthcare. We know it’s not just me giving you medication to treat whatever condition. It’s these things that are happening within my environment that are happening around me socially is where the word social determinants come from that actually determine my health outcomes. And a way we always tell individuals to think about that is you can pull up zip codes and one person that lives 10 minutes away from another can have a life expectancy gap of 20 to 30 years. And it’s about the things that are happening there, whether it can be clean air, water, whether it can be access to healthy, nutritious foods, et cetera. And so one of the things that we did, or I did with that role was to look at ways that at Walmart we can help the communities.

We have stores that sit within 10 minutes of 90% of Americans. And so when you think about communities, we think about ourselves as being the best place for people to shop and work. And if we’re going to be the best place to shop, how do we actually bring forth ideas and solutions for communities? And so that was one where we looked at. We have a huge baby department, and so we looked at maternal and infant mortality and what ways we can play there. And then we also looked at food and nutrition and security. So the idea was to create a program that would allow us to do that. And some benefits that came out of the work we did is one, every mom now under Walmart insurance that gives birth has access to a doula. And a doula is a person that comes alongside you during pregnancy, helps you ask the right questions when you end with a doctor and they guide you and to be in the birth room to help prevent unnecessary C sections and those type of things. And so that was one of the things we adopted through that process.

So it was great learnings, great opportunity to design things and to get access to foods. We had a few pilots where individuals could get access to healthy foods. We structured it where you can shop online because we know that food banks are important to be a short-term stopgap. But we know that everyone wants to shop for their food with the same dignity. And so we enable things for them to shop online and to get goods that way. It as amazing work. It was purposeful work. And I look forward to … As healthcare, I know our school is passionate about meeting everyone where they are so everyone can have their best chance at the outcomes for them. You and I won’t be the same health because we have different genetic factors, et cetera. But how can we make sure that Isabella you can be at your best health and Warren could be at his best health because we understand you as an individual. And I think that comes back … We talked earlier about relationships as caregivers. How do we see the individual? How do we understand what’s happening around them? And then how do we try to treat the whole person and not just the condition? And I think we hold our hope that we’ll continue to do that, I think as a country, as a healthcare system. I was proud to do that work for sure.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. I think that’s incredible. And I think what you said, treating the whole person instead of focusing on certain things, I think that is going to be the future of healthcare. And I think that’s going to really show a lot of benefits for a lot of people.

Warren Moore:

Any thoughts you have around the future of healthcare? I know you’re in it now as you’re thinking about it. Any thoughts around the future of healthcare?

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. Like what we were talking about with looking at every person as a whole picture, I was recently diagnosed with this chronic illness that impacts every single part of my body. And so from that experience I’ve seen it’s really hard to go to a doctor and have them not focus on every part of a person. I’ll have a certain symptom, they send me to a pulmonologist, then they send me to an orthopedic person, and I’m like, this is a lot for me. I’m 23. And so I think looking whole picture, especially with medication management. Because I’ll go to that pulmonologist and they give me an inhaler that I don’t actually need. And then I go see orthopedics and they give me something else. But then I go back to primary care and they have no record of any of these prescriptions. And I think that treating all together and having a more universal system with that where doctors are more able to talk to other physicians, other pharmacists, nurses, and everyone, I think that’s going to be really good both for medication management, opioid problems, just in general. I think that that greater communication, building those relationships like we were talking about, I think that’s going to take us to a better future than where we are right now.

Warren Moore:

And I think that why it’s important for … Whether it’s college of pharmacies to teach it or medical schools, because if you don’t know the healthcare system today and you have an illness, it is tough for you to navigate. But if we had practitioners that are willing to help those individuals navigate, speak to them in ways that they understand, understand how to share resources, I think will help us be a lot better in our healthcare system with better outcomes, especially the amount of money we spend in healthcare today in the us. So I think we have to understand that everyone don’t know how to navigate it, and this thing is too complex, so it should be simpler.

Isabella Tobin:

Yes.

Warren Moore:

In the light of that, how do you and I as practitioners come around that individual and meet them where they are to help them get to their best outcomes for sure.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. A couple of months ago, I had been home for winter break and my grandmother, she had arthritis and her doctor that she sees for arthritis told her that one of the best things for that is NSAIDs. They said, “You should try ibuprofen.” She had stage four kidney disease. Should not be having that ibuprofen. But she had six bottles of ibuprofen that confiscated from her bathroom. It was the same thing, but she was like, “Well, the liquid gel one, I take that for something, I take the brand name Advil in the morning, and then I take the generic ibuprofen. Completely different things.” I was like, “Grandma, these are the same things.” So I think that that was definitely another reason. I was like, we need to look at a whole person because yes, she was in a lot of pain, but she would be in more pain if she had kidney failure from taking too many NSAIDs. But looking at your positions now, the ones you’ve had, especially social determinants of health and the position you’re in now, how has your training as a pharmacist helped with those roles?

Warren Moore:

Yeah. I think it is foundational to those roles, and I’ve been blessed over my career to have some additional experiences that help. But the things that I say that are foundational is this ability to use data to make decisions. I tell an individual, our job is to try to make the best decision. There’s always more than one decision you can make, but how do you make the best decision for that time? And I think from healthcare, that played a role. I think attention to detail. We understand that any small mistake can cost someone their life. And so when you’re doing work, so the attention to detail that you pay to the things you do today. I would think from my football time, teams and how you build teams. That individuals understand how they mesh together. When you’re hiring a team, you have to look at, okay, what does my team need? What does that position need? And then do they have the skills to do that role? And so how do you cast a wide net to build teams? I think factors in today.

And then caring for people. I’m biased toward retail. I just, because you get to see individuals for long periods of time. So if you’re in a community, you may get to track someone who’s newly married and then the birth of their child and then that child graduate high school. And so your ability to have these long-lasting relationships there. You have to have this love for people. And how do you, again, meet people where they are will be those things that I think help. And then as you have experiences in your life, your ability to reflect on every experience and opportunity you’ve had. Reflected on that helps you grow. And if you spend time to say, here are the things that have shaped me, here’s what I’ve learned, here’s what I’m curious about. And staying curious, that allows you then to be able to move and have skills that transfer because you’re taking things throughout your life, plus your academic training plus curiosity and allowing that to drive you forward.

Isabella Tobin:

Yeah. Thank you so much. I’ve had an incredible time talking to you. You’ve had so much to share and this has been incredible. Thank you so much for being here.

Warren Moore:

Thank you for the time. Good luck with everything as you finish up your curriculum.

Isabella Tobin:

I have one last question for you, so don’t say your goodbyes just yet.

Warren Moore:

All right.

Isabella Tobin:

At the end of every episode, I like to ask a bit of a fun question.

Warren Moore:

Okay.

Isabella Tobin:

So my question for you today is if you could write a book about your time here at Purdue, football and pharmacy and everything else you did, what would the title of that book be?

Warren Moore:

Well, that’s a good one. I always say you’d go with what comes to mind first. And I would say rigor that leads to reward.

Isabella Tobin:

Okay.

Warren Moore:

How about that?

Isabella Tobin:

I like it. I’ll be looking for that book when next time I go to the Barnes & Noble.

Warren Moore:

Very good. Very good.

Isabella Tobin:

Thank you again for being here. This has been incredible.

Warren Moore:

Awesome. Thank you.