Leadership Strategies to Survive and Excel in a Post-COVID World
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Leadership Strategies to Survive and Excel in a Post-COVID World

November 10, 2021

What are some of the unexpected lessons —good and bad— we have taken away from 2020 and 2021? Discussing examples of innovations created by necessity during the global pandemic that will continue on long into the future Taking this chapter in our working lives as an opportunity to re-evaluate, reconsider, and rethink some of the finance processes and strategies we had in place before COVID-19 How should we adjust our approach to communication, coordination, mentoring, and management in the emerging ‘new normal’ of work? Valdis Lenss Head of Finance, Marketing & Core Services Uber Valdis joined Uber in 2017 and…

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Change Leadership in the 21st Century
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Change Leadership in the 21st Century

November 10, 2021

One of the only constants in business is that your company must continually change and adapt to survive. Change Management is not a new concept. However, in the 21st Century, companies need to evolve beyond the age old cliché of Change Management to Change Leadership. To efficiently implement change and capture all of the benefits associated with the change you want to make, employees must want the “change” as much or more than you do. To unlock the power of change in ways that will unleash the maximum potential from your employees, we will look at the difference between making…

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Walking the Ice: How Finance leads Amazon Devices & Services
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Walking the Ice: How Finance leads Amazon Devices & Services

November 10, 2021

As Amazon Devices & Services scales with additions of new customer offerings while facing supply chain challenges, the role of Finance must keep pace How do we engage with customers to ensure we are innovating on their behalf How are we using technology to improve our tools and processes How we measure financial success when traditional GAAP doesn’t work — Enerino “Rino” Caruccio VP, WW Analytics and Planning, Amazon Devices & Services Amazon Enerino “Rino” Caruccio is currently Vice President Worldwide Analytics for Amazon Devices & Services based in Seattle, WA. His team is responsible for developing, implementing and delivering…

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Two Strategic Issues Currently Confronting Walmart’s Supply Chain
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Two Strategic Issues Currently Confronting Walmart’s Supply Chain

November 10, 2021

Optimizing cost to serve in an Omni Channel World. How do we approach channel decision making to serve our customers and make their lives easier. Understanding cost to serve through different channels and in real time, becomes increasingly more complex as the combination of nodes, delivery methods and inventory assortment scales rapidly across our network The need for automation has escalated as the competition for labor drives pressure on wages. Finance plays a key role in understanding the business case for automation and benefits across different parts of the Supply Chain — William J. (Bill) Mines SVP Finance and Strategy,…

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Bridging the Gap Between Food Safety Cloud Solutions and Handheld Devices
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Bridging the Gap Between Food Safety Cloud Solutions and Handheld Devices

October 25, 2021

As the smarter era of food safety continues to evolve, more and more companies are digitalizing their food safety systems Food safety systems are becoming easier to use, deploy, and easier to scale our ability to manage risk and deploy resources will change We’ll cover a unique example of deploying sanitation monitoring, from production enabled devices to a digital environment Joe Heinzelmann Director of Business Development NEOGEN Joe Heinzelmann began his career in nanotechnology. He has held various sales and marketing positions in the nanotechnology space until he joined Neogen in 2011. He’s been in food safety for over a…

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Accelerating Business Growth by Embedding a Culture of Food Safety
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Accelerating Business Growth by Embedding a Culture of Food Safety

October 19, 2021

Demonstrating that a culture of Food Safety within our companies drives business performance Understanding the elements necessary to build and maintain a true Food Safety Culture into your company’s DNA Discussing the role of the leader in supporting proactive and preventative thinking throughout our organizations Once Food Safety is everyone’s business, what comes next? What can Food Safety-centric operations do better than anyone else? Offering ideas and suggestions to help other Food Safety professionals on their own journeys to develop Food Safety cultures — Lone Jespersen Principal and Founder Cultivate Food Safety Lone Jespersen is principal and founder of Cultivate…

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Collaborating on Technology to Address the Future of Food Safety

October 13, 2021

Working across departments on shared challenges and prioritizing innovative solutions that support and reflect company values Leading with “technology first” Exploring advanced technologies to determine efficacy and applicability Mining data for insights to shift towards more predictive modelling Leveraging diverse team skillset to achieve creative solutions — Carletta Ooton VP Product Assurance, Risk and Security Amazon Carletta Ooton is Amazon’s Vice President for Product Assurance, Risk & Security. She oversees the company’s Product Assurance, Food Safety, Trade Services, Product Safety & Recalls, Transportation Risk & Compliance, Dangerous Goods, Global Security Operations and Environmental Assurance & Protection teams worldwide. Her responsibilities…

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Transforming Our Manufacturing and Distribution to Elevate FSQ Excellence
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Transforming Our Manufacturing and Distribution to Elevate FSQ Excellence

October 13, 2021

Discussing the role of senior leadership in implementing impactful change on FSQ processes Treating compliance as the starting line and then setting ambitious goals that challenge and inspire us to achieve excellence Encouraging input from all levels of the manufacturing and supply chain organization to find, apply, and support good ideas of all shapes and sizes Building a better system requires good data: What are the KPIs and metrics that matter? What information do you need and when to inform decision-making? Highlighting some of our success stories. What can other organizations on their own journeys learn from our experience? —…

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Leadership in a Time of Crisis

October 13, 2021

What are the types of challenges and opportunities that can occur throughout the end to end supply chain during a global pandemic, and how to mitigate them? How can we best support, communicate, and reinforce the right food safety culture throughout our organizations during a time of crisis? What lessons have we learned about ourselves, our teams, and our organizations during the pandemic? — Sherry Williamson VP, Global Quality and Food Safety Kellogg’s Sherry Williamson is currently the VP of Global Food Safety and Quality that oversees Food Safety, Sanitation, Quality Management Systems, Auditing, Supplier Quality Management, Supplier Certification, Premiums,…

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