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How Middle Managers Shape Food Safety Culture and Risk Performance

KEYWORDS: active managerial control / employee training
11/5/26 11:00 am to 11/5/27 EST
Contact: Vania Halabou

A mature food safety culture is not built through technical systems alone; it emerges through people who feel heard, empowered, and responsible.

Middle management is an often-overlooked sub-group that plays a large part in determining the food safety culture, execution, and risk performance of your food business. The key to unlocking meaningful change in a company's food safety and quality culture—and its organizational culture—does not necessarily come from the top down. In fact, this power often lies with middle managers.

Drawing on findings from social psychology, organizational management, risk management, and real-world case studies, industry and culture experts will show how food safety and quality effectiveness and culture are impacted by organizational structure and resulting behaviors. Register today to learn how the "middle-up-down" approach helps inform managerial interventions that measurably improve FSQ culture, organizational culture, and business strategy.

Attendees will:  

  • The value middle managers bring to the table in being accountable for day-to-day food safety work and translating intent into on-job behaviors
  • How to develop a high-power mindset in middle managers to effect meaningful FSQ culture change and prevent food safety risks
  • How investing in middle managers improves both FSQ strategy implementation and accountability across all levels of the company

Speakers:

Lone Jespersen, Ph.D. , Founder and Principal, Cultivate SA. Lone Jespersen, Ph.D. is a published author, speaker, and the Principal and Founder of Cultivate SA, a Switzerland-based organization dedicated to eradicating foodborne illness, one culture at a time. Dr. Jespersen has worked with improving food safety through organizational culture improvements for 20 years, since she started at Maple Leaf Foods in 2004. She chaired the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) technical working group A Culture of Food Safety, chaired the International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) professional development group Food Safety Culture, and was the technical author on the BSI PAS320 Practical Guide to Food Safety Culture. Dr. Jespersen holds a Ph.D. in Culture Enabled Food Safety from the University of Guelph in Canada and a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Syd Dansk University in Denmark. Dr. Jespersen serves as Chair of the IFPTI board and as Director on the Stop Foodborne Illness board. She is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Food Safety Magazine and a member of the Educational Advisory Board of the Food Safety Summit.





Marie Tanner, M.S. , retired Quality and Food Safety Executive. Marie Tanner, M.S. is a recently retired executive with over 35 years of global leadership in quality and food safety. She has served as Senior Vice President of Global Quality at Reckitt, Senior Vice President of Quality and Food Safety at DFA, and Global Chief Food Safety and QHSE Officer at Kerry. Earlier in her career, she held progressive quality leadership roles at PepsiCo and Godiva. Marie holds an M.S. degree in Food Science from Rutgers University and has contributed her expertise as a former board member for SSAFE, a global nonprofit working to integrate food safety, animal health, and plant health across supply chains.





Moderator: Adrienne Blume, Editorial Director, Food Safety Magazine 


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