When Sarah London was tapped to lead health care company Centene in 2022, she became the youngest woman to be named CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
One of the biggest lessons she’s learned since then is the importance of balance, she told Julia Boorstin on the latest episode of the “CNBC Changemakers and Power Players” podcast.
London “barely saw [her] kids for the first nine months” after becoming CEO, she said. She woke up at four a.m. every day to read binders full of material and stopped exercising.
“Work sort of took precedence over everything else, including my family,” she said.
A car ride with her children was the catalyst for London to reevaluate her work-life balance. “I realized it was the first time I had driven them to school all year,” she recalled. “They were asking me about work and, you know, one of them said, ‘What’s going on? You seem really stressed.’”
