The Leadership Diamond at Amy's Kitchen with Andrea Robb, Doug Kirkpatrick, Tim Griffin
At Responsive Conference 2025, Tim Griffin joined Andrea Robb and Doug Kirkpatrick for a thoughtful conversation on what it really takes to grow with integrity.
As VP of Procurement at Amy’s Kitchen, Tim has helped transform a family-run business into a national – and now global – operation, all while preserving the values it was founded on. With decades of experience spanning sustainable agriculture, co-ops, and purpose-driven food systems, he brings a grounded, real-world perspective to leadership in complex environments.
Together, Tim, Andrea, and Doug explored how to apply the Leadership Diamond in moments of tension, scale, and change, where staying aligned to your purpose often requires deliberate trade-offs. This session offers practical insights into how businesses can honor their mission while evolving, how systems and culture can reinforce one another, and what it looks like to lead from a place of clarity and character. Whether you're scaling a startup, stewarding a legacy brand, or navigating values-based leadership at any level, this conversation will give you tools – and inspiration – to lead with both strength and soul.
Andrea Robb
CEO and Founder, ARCX
Former VP of Talent, Autodesk
Former Director of Talent, AirBNB
Andrea Robb has spent 25 years designing workplaces where people want to work. A graduate of the University of Michigan (Psychology) and Harvard (M.Ed. in Education & Public Policy), she began her career in organizational development at Lucasfilm before leading global diversity and talent initiatives at Levi Strauss & Co., building early frameworks for belonging. At Airbnb – pre-IPO and amid hypergrowth – she shaped the company’s culture of “Belonging,” built leadership development programs, and partnered with executives through constant change.
As Vice President of Talent, Culture, and Diversity at Autodesk, Andrea scaled people systems during rapid transformation embedding bias-minimizing practices into hiring and promotions and guiding culture change through periods of intense growth. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, and she contributed to McKinsey & LeanIn.org’s Women in the Workplace report. Today, Andrea leads her own consulting practice, advises mission-driven teams from Stanford researchers to Series A–C startups and is a founding partner at Vibrancy.
Doug Kirkpatrick
CEO at D'Artagnan Advisors
Author of The No-Limits Enterprise
Doug Kirkpatrick is a global voice for self-management, organizational trust, and the future of work. His journey started at The Morning Star Company, the world’s largest tomato processor, where he served as financial controller and helped shape a workplace without bosses, titles, or traditional hierarchy. That radical experiment became the blueprint for his life’s work: building organizations that run on freedom, accountability, and shared agreements.
Doug went on to co-found the Self-Management Institute and now leads D’Artagnan Advisors, where he helps companies like Fortune 500s to public agencies shift from control-based systems to ones rooted in autonomy and trust. He’s also a founding partner of Vibrancy, a global network advancing self-managed practices in education, government, healthcare, and beyond. A sought-after speaker and advisor, Doug brings deep practicality to big questions. His books Beyond Empowerment and The No-Limits Enterprise explore what happens when you strip away outdated structures and invite people to lead from wherever they are.
Tim Griffin
Vice President, Procurement at Amy's Kitchen
If you’ve ever picked up a frozen pizza at Whole Foods, there’s a good chance it came from Amy’s Kitchen. What began as a small, family-run operation in Petaluma, California (where, fun fact, Responsive’s Executive Director Robin Zander learned to do gymnastics) has grown into a nationally recognized organic food brand with more than 2,700 employees and distribution across the U.S.
As Vice President of Procurement, Tim Griffin is helping lead that transformation. He’s at the forefront of scaling Amy’s sourcing and operations while staying true to the company’s roots– organic ingredients, vegetarian meals, and a commitment to values over shortcuts. Since joining the team in 2018, Tim has helped Amy’s navigate global supply chain complexity, deepen its regenerative agriculture partnerships, and future-proof its procurement systems amid growing climate and market challenges.Tim brings a deeply grounded and practical perspective to this work, informed by a dual M.S. in International Agricultural Development and Agricultural & Resource Economics from UC Davis.