John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, has built the natural and organic grocer from a single store in Austin, Texas in 1978, into a Fortune 500 company, which went public in 1992, and was purchased by Amazon in 2017. Today Whole Foods Market is a top U.S. supermarket with more than 500 stores and 95,000 Team Members across the U.S., Canada and U.K. Mackey has been recognized as one of Fortune’s “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” “Best CEO” by numerous financial journals, and “Most Inspiring CEO” by Esquire. He is author of the books Conscious Capitalism and Conscious Leadership.