Beth Ratliff has been in recovery for 30 years. As COO of Premise Health, she's created something vanishingly rare in American corporations: a certified recovery-friendly workplace where personal struggle becomes professional strength rather than career liability. The statistics are stark. One in five adults in this country lives with substance use or alcohol use disorder.
Most people know someone currently struggling. But almost no one knows someone in long-term recovery, and Beth identifies this invisibility as the precise mechanism that perpetuates stigma.
This conversation refuses inspirational platitudes. Instead, Beth articulates the specific leadership capacities that recovery develops: accountability that can't be faked, empathy earned through vulnerability, resilience built from repeated failure and reconstruction. These aren't soft skills. They're operational advantages. And organizations that celebrate rather than conceal them don't just create better cultures. They create better outcomes.
If you've wondered what authentic leadership actually requires beyond the corporate slogans, listen to how Beth uses her platform to rebuild systems from the inside.
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