Why Your Leadership Program Stalls Before It Scales
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Sep 16, 2026
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Most leadership development programs in food and CPG do not fail because nobody cared enough to build them. They fail because they were built to work for a season, in one part of the organization, carried by one or two people who believed in the mission enough to hold it up alone. And for a while, that is enough. The program runs. People notice it. Someone points to it in a board meeting as proof the company invests in its people.
Then the organization grows, or the person who built it moves on...
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