• The Home Depot highlighted an interview with Chief Culture Officer Crystal Hanlon tied to its partnership with the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream.
• Hanlon said a community wheelchair-ramp project shifted her view of the job from transactional work to a long-term purpose-driven career.
• She framed culture as a strategic asset that scales through storytelling, warning that losing those narratives risks eroding the company’s identity.
• Hanlon said she prioritizes “heart” over skills in hiring, arguing business capabilities can be taught but caring cannot.

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