Walk onto any food manufacturing floor and you feel it immediately. The pace does not stop. Production lines run around the clock. Quality checks happen constantly. Every shift carries the weight of food safety compliance, workforce pressure, and the knowledge that the margin for error is razor-thin.
I know this feeling well. I spent years inside it before Tia and I built Catalyst. And what I know from that time, confirmed now by every organization we work with, is that the leaders running thos...
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...
