Shaleta Dunn Vick

Identifying one word to describe Shaleta Dunn Vick is simple: invested. She is invested in community, her family and firnds, colleagues and team, and personal growth. Her investment in each of these areas serves one purpose: to positively impact the lives of others.  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 environmental sustainability, social impact, enhancing transparency and reducing risk in the healthcare supply chain, while delivering significant member value and satisfaction, and economically impacting patient populations.  In her role at Vizient, Shaleta has led the organization to implement strategies, stakeholder collaborations, and increased offerings across environmental sustainability, supplier diversity, and governance, Shaleta championed 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 Federation of American Hospitals as the 2024 Corris Boyd hononoree, 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.