Sandy Baruah: Leadership, Resilience, and Community Building

Sandy Baruah’s path to leading the Detroit Regional Chamber didn’t begin in Michigan. It began on Capitol Hill, then inside two Bush administrations, then at the U.S. Small Business Administration during one of the most consequential economic periods in American history. When he arrived in Detroit in 2010, he had real credibility. It just wasn’t his own yet. In this conversation, Dan and Sandy talk through what government service at that scale actually teaches about leadership. They discuss what it took to build influence in a new city after a career defined by the credib...