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Monday, July 11th – Management & Leadership
- 8 a.m. | Breakfast
- 8:45 – 10:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks and State of the Natural and Organic Industry | Featuring Dean Sharon Matusik and Carlotta Mast
- 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Break
- 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Leadership Lessons from Current and Former CEOs | Featuring Doug Radi and Liz Myslik
- 12:15 – 1 p.m. | Lunch
- 1:15 – 3:15 p.m. | Developing a “Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging” Program in Your Company | Featuring Jennifer Forman
- 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Break
- 3:30 – 5 p.m. | Strategies for Hiring and Retention During the “Great Resignation” | Featuring Creative Alignments and Robin Kane
- 5:30 p .m. | Dinner and Networking
Tuesday, July 12th – Food Systems, Manufacturing and Innovation
- 8 a.m. | Breakfast | Featuring Remarks from Mark Retzloff
- 8:45 – 10:30 a.m. | Law & Policy of Food Systems | Featuring Taber Ward
- 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Break
- 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Bridging the Gap: Factoring Marketing and Emerging Consumer Concerns into Your Quality System | Featuring Jackie Bowen
- 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. | Lunch
- 1:15 – 2:30 p.m. | Panel: Emerging Certifications | Featuring Ben Gray and Kathryn Britton
- 2:30 – 3 p.m. | Break
- 3 – 5:30 p.m. | Design Thinking: A Human Centered Approach to Innovation | Featuring Morley McBride
Wednesday, July 13th – Strategy & Analytics
- 8 a.m. | Breakfast
- 8:45 – 10:45 a.m. | Statistics and Data Analytics | Featuring Lori Seward
- 10:45 – 11 a.m. | Break
- 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Developing a Sales Strategy or Making Decisions Based on Sales Data | Featuring Chuck Engle
- 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch
- 1:30 – 5 p.m. | Field Trip visit to Skyway Foods (transportation from the University provided)
Thursday, July 14th – Creating and Marketing Brands that Build Trust
- 8 a.m. | Breakfast
- 8:45 – 10:15 a.m. | Cut Through the Clutter with Purpose | Featuring Bill Capsalis
- 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. | Break
- 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Developing a Digital Strategy: How to Take Advantage of Social Media Data
- 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch
- 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Marketing to Gen Z | Featuring Heather Kennedy
- 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Break
- 3:45 – 5:15 p.m. | The New Normal of Grocery Shopping
Friday, July 15th – Finance, Managing Cash and Margin
- 8 a.m. | Breakfast
- 8:45 – 10:15 a.m. | The Importance of Margin | Featuring Jeremiah Contreras
- 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. | Break
- 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | 10 Reasons Investors Pass, Managing Cash | Featuring Andy Whitman
- 12:45 – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch and Certificate Presentation
With sales of natural and organic products projected to surpass $300 billion by 2023, the industry is growing quickly and has the potential to create positive social, environmental, and economic impacts. This executive education course provides up and coming leaders in the food industry an opportunity to learn graduate-level coursework with the pragmatic real-world experience of practitioners. The program takes place July 11-15th in beautiful Boulder, CO, considered an epicenter for the industry that changed how Americans eat and how Americans expect businesses to operate.
