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It Starts with Leadership: Building a Culture to Navigate Uncharted Waters

Our businesses are facing changes on many fronts, from the technology and advancements impacting our products and services, to the changes to laws and regulations impacting our business and our customers, to the operational landscape impacting how we operate our businesses, attract and retain talent, engage our teams, and achieve our goals. Our success during these ongoing changes is anchored in our culture and our teams. We, as leaders at all levels, can ensure the success of our businesses and our teams by:

  • setting a clear direction,
  • defining our culture including what’s acceptable and what’s not, and
  • leveraging the culture to attract and engage our teams.

In this session, participants will engage in exploring these topics as they relate to their own organizations and learn concepts to help build the desired culture – despite any storms that arise.

Speaker: Erin Mies, People Spark Consulting

Biography: Erin Mies co-founded People Spark Consulting with business partner Kristen Ireland, in 2018. People Spark is a business and human resources consulting company that works with small to mid-size businesses in the ag industry to achieve their goals through their HR strategies. Erin has more than 20 years of experience consulting and coaching executives, leaders, and managers in human resources and leadership development, specifically in the agricultural and food industries. In addition to her work experience, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Music (Harp) from Wittenberg University (Ohio), and her Master of Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Erin resides in Minnesota.