Document Type

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Publication Date

5-19-2025

Abstract

One of the world’s most influential leaders in the health ecosystem never thought he’d make it to college, let alone to the C-Suite of a major corporation helping diversify the American health care workforce. But Steve Beard isn’t your average CEO.

Raised on the south side of Chicago, Beard just assumed he was destined for a blue collar career after high school. But a guidance counselor, seeing something in Beard that he didn’t see in himself, urged him to apply to college. Four years later Beard was a graduate of the University of Illinois. A brief stint in banking led to a desire to go even further with his own education. Three years later—Steve Beard, JD.

And now the Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumnus is a member of the TIME100 Health class of 2025, alongside a number of other prestigious leaders including Melinda French Gates, Bill Nye, and Kate Middleton.

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