Brock Leach

Rev. Brock Leach is UUSC's vice president for mission, strategy, and innovation. In this position, his primary responsibilities are to strengthen the agency’s impact, develop tools for measuring the effectiveness of its programs and launch the College of Social Justice, a program designed to build the capacity of Unitarian Universalists and other UUSC members and supporters to catalyze justice.

An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Leach joined UUSC after a 24-year career as an executive with PepsiCo Inc., having served as president and CEO of its Frito-Lay North America and Tropicana divisions. Most recently, he was PepsiCo's chief innovation officer, leading the corporation's health and wellness initiative to develop healthier products across all corporate divisions. In that capacity, he also helped found several private-public collaborations to work against childhood obesity. In addition, he has extensive nonprofit leadership experience as a volunteer, having served on the boards of the Y of the USA and the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and on local boards of Habitat for Humanity and Head Start. He is a community minister affiliated with the UU Church of Sarasota and a trustee of the Florida District of the Unitarian Universalist Association. 

Leach has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, an MBA from the University of Chicago and a master of divinity degree from Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago.

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