EMERALD HONORS WINNERS
SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR T
EMERALD HONORS’ 2013
by Gale Horton Gay
editors@ccgmag.com
hose who know Corlis Murray best professionally describe her as a change agent, pioneer, leader and mentor. Murray is senior vice president of Quality Assurance, Regulatory and Engineering Services
at Abbott in Abbott Park, Ill., a global health care company devoted to discovering new medicines, technologies and ways to manage health.
Of her 30-year career, Murray has spent 23
years at Abbott. She has been involved in the or- chestration of key engineering development moves, multiple new product launches and plant acquisi- tions.
Murray also has demonstrated superb leadership in business-critical situations. She led the company’s Executive Crisis Man-
agement Team during the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic, evacuation of their Grenada plant due to Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Murray’s leadership style is de- scribed as collaborative and decisive. She is said to excel at calculated risk-taking. “She consistently holds herself and her organiza- tion to high standards of performance,” and she takes time to recognize the contributions of others, according to her colleagues. And when it comes to reaching out a helping hand to young people, Mur- ray has been a leader. At Abbott, she initiated the first high school engineering internship and expanded the Global Engineering Services summer internship program. Murray attained an undergraduate degree from Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. She also attended Abbott leadership development courses. Murray has achieved many “firsts” at Abbott includ- ing first African-American plant manager in the Ross Products Division, first African American and woman to lead Corporate Engineering and the Cor- porate Quality function.
She is credited with helping to form and con- tinuing to drive Abbott’s vision of a diverse and inclusive work environment. Specifically she has helped Abbott increase its representation of minori- ties in America management by nearly 50 percent during the past 10 years.
Murray explained her view on diversity in this way: “I embrace diversity in all its forms—in people and ideas…I see and respect ideas from people at all levels and areas of the company. Never underestimate who you can learn from.”
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Corlis Murray Senior Vice President of Quality Assurance, Regulatory and Engineering Services Abbott Laboratories
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