“You have to be willing to grow and develop and never be afraid of continuing to learn. I think as a young lawyer I was very headstrong and wanting to do things my way. I think I’ve grown in that regard.”
After earning her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1990 and her law degree from Columbia Law School in 1993, Reid returned to her hometown of Houston to work for a law firm. Wanting to work on issues with a direct, daily impact on people’s lives, she accepted a new challenge, working for Walmart in employment law. She established the employment compliance team, one of the company’s first compliance functions.
In 2005 she was named to the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 class.
“Walmart and Bentonville, that experience in Northwest Arkansas was pivotal to my growth from a career standpoint,” she said, calling her work at Walmart “a foundation for the work that I continue to do.” It was also foundational for her family. Reid got married and started a family in Bentonville.
Throughout Reid’s career she’s tried “to leave a mark or make a place better than I found it,” by “improving a process, changing a perspective, helping grow a company’s culture, or helping them improve their engagement score,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be something huge. I’m not Steve Jobs. It may not be something that’s going to set the world on fire, but leaving a mark is important to me.”
After Walmart, Reid’s work in global ethics and litigation, arbitration,...
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