University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Regional Vice President, Pharmacy and Retail Operations (Retired)

Connie provides strategic, financial and operational leadership in a diverse geographic territory encompassing over 550 retail, specialty and health system drug store and pharmacy locations.  She works with seven area-level Directors in the Texas/Oklahoma Region and, with full business oversight, partners with Healthcare, Human Resources, Asset Protection, Finance, Facilities and Merchandising region leaders to exceed standard expectations.Connie is an experienced executive with a proven record of effective leadership in the retail and healthcare sector.  She has a history of demonstrated management strengths in creating customer-first ways of working throughout the region, and developing unified, purposeful leadership teams focused on operational excellence.Connie’s first region as a Vice President was in the Mid-South states of Tennessee and Kentucky; in February 2017 she was promoted to the Texas/Oklahoma region.

Walgreens

Regional Vice President

Based at Walgreens corporate offices in Deerfield, Illinois, Connie led and worked with myriad cross-functional teams focused on a nationwide unification of Walgreens corporate social responsibility platforms; strengthening corporate and store operations by enhancing diversity and inclusion programming; and creating a critical feedback loop for team member involvement in corporate-level decision making, known today as the Walgreens Advisory Council.Connie also managed multiple task forces and pilot programs, including initiatives around pharmacy shrink; research and testing of optical departments at store level; the initial phases of Field Transformation; evaluation of the challenges and opportunities surrounding a possible Real Estate Department consolidation; and the leadership of field work streams for Women of Walgreens.

Connie Latta