Denise Smutny (Agribusiness)

Empowering Our People: If we don’t empower our people, we cannot grow. It is so critical to listen to the the people doing the work, what they bring to the table, how to make processes and the company better. The best ideas come from the people doing the work as well as those people brought in from outside the organization into new roles who are bringing ideas and improvements with them. Empowering people means letting them take risks and learn, always give merit to an idea even if you don’t think it will work because it might. There is typically more ways to complete a task, process, or engage a customer or vendor and listening to our team members ideas and making sure there is a safe environment to share those ideas is critical and the path to the future.