Jeff Clark, Food Industry Consultant - People-First Leadership That Scales

What makes a culture durable - and a team unstoppable? Jason sits down with Jeff Clark (ex-President, Kitchen Partners; now President & CEO, Jeff Clark Consulting) to unpack four decades of building high-performing teams in food manufacturing and multi-unit restaurant supply. Jeff shares the “get the best people” play, how to coach A-players and strugglers, leading through COVID, and why purpose, values, and clear metrics turn “people-first” into performance.

You’ll learn:

• Hiring to a bar, not a vacancy
• Coaching the top 10% to move the middle
• Communicating under pressure (even when you don’t have all the answers)
• Embedding purpose/values so growth strengthens culture
• Keeping innovation alive with “always improving” habits