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Manika Turnbull, Ph.D., believes in the power of people. She knows what they\u2019re capable of because she knows what she is capable of.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was born and raised in Pittsburgh. It\u2019s a blue-collar city, and that\u2019s a huge part of who I am,\u201d Dr. Turnbull says. \u201cMy dad was a single father. He was an electrician, and he went to work every day while also taking care of three kids. He taught us to have grit. He used to say, \u2018The easiest thing to find is an excuse, and we don\u2019t make excuses here. We just go get it done.\u2019 So that\u2019s been my mantra my whole life: No excuses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Something else Dr. Turnbull learned from her father was a love of sports. In fact, she ended up going to college on a full basketball scholarship. But she never intended to play professional ball. For her, basketball was a means to an end, and that end was a career in psychology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason my dad was a single father is because my parents got divorced. My mother has bipolar disorder, and in the African American community at that time, you did not talk whatsoever about mental health disorders. So it went undiagnosed and untreated for a really long time, and my dad made the decision that he wasn\u2019t going to put his kids through that,\u201d continues Dr. Turnbull, who began quietly researching bipolar disorder at age 10 in an attempt to understand it. Deciding that she wanted to help families like hers, she pursued a career in clinical psychology.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Dr. Turnbull took a different path. After getting a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from James Madison University in Virginia, Dr. Turnbull earned her master\u2019s degree in industrial and organizational (I\/O) psychology from The Chicago School, where she also earned a doctorate in organizational leadership with an emphasis on servant leadership and emotional intelligence. Simultaneously, she started an 18-year career at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), which operates as Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. She started as a unit manager in learning and development and is now senior vice president and chief human resources officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re talking about psychology, you\u2019re talking about healing people. I see my role as helping to heal organizations,\u201d explains Dr. Turnbull, whose modus operandi is making employees happier so they can be more productive. \u201cTake COVID. When COVID hit, I had to ask myself what I could bring to bear in terms of my knowledge and my skill set to support our organization. What could we do to keep our workforce engaged during this trying time? Because unless we have fully attentive employees, we can\u2019t be our best selves to help our customers get through the unimaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helping people overcome the unimaginable is as much HCSC\u2019s mission as it is Dr. Turnbull\u2019s. \u201cOur purpose as an organization is to do everything within our power to stand with our members in sickness and in health, and that\u2019s what brought me here,\u201d continues Dr. Turnbull, who feels a similar kinship with The Chicago School, on whose Board of Trustees she has served since 2014. \u201cProviding service to the board was a calling to me. This is an institution that set me on my path, so I want to give all that I can back to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the ways she\u2019s most proud to support her alma mater is by hiring fellow alumni. \u201cI\u2019ve been able to employ several graduates of The Chicago School, and I think that says a lot,\u201d Dr. Turnbull says. \u201cAs a trustee and a proud alum, it means a lot to be able to do for others what the school has done for me, providing them a solid career path in a strong company where I know there are opportunities available.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s especially meaningful when Dr. Turnbull considers the path she\u2019s taken. \u201cWhen I was getting my bachelor\u2019s degree, someone once asked me, \u2018What are you majoring in?\u2019 And when I said psychology, the person literally laughed in my face. \u2018Good luck,\u2019 they said. \u2018You\u2019ll never go anywhere with that degree,\u2019\u201d she recalls. \u201cI decided to work even harder and when I found The Chicago School, I realized all the various avenues that were open to me. What I learned studying psychology is what has made me successful in every job I\u2019ve had.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that way, Dr. Turnbull likens herself and others like her to seeds in a garden. \u201cIf you take a seed and you plant it, give it light and give it water, it eventually grows into a flower,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s what The Chicago School represents to me. It gave me the right environment to grow in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manika Turnbull, Ph.D., believes in the power of people. She knows what they\u2019re capable of because she knows what she is capable of. \u201cI was born and raised in Pittsburgh. It\u2019s a blue-collar city, and that\u2019s a huge part of who I am,\u201d Dr. Turnbull says. \u201cMy dad was a single father. He was an electrician, and he went to work every day while also taking care of three kids. He taught us to have grit. 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