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The Leadership Skills Your HACCP Plan Is Missing with Tia Glave from Catalyst Food Leaders | Episode 157
In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine sit down with leadership powerhouse Tia Glave, co-founder of Catalyst Food Leaders, to discuss the one thing most food safety professionals overlook: culture and behavior change.
If your HACCP plan is flawless but your team still rolls their eyes at food safety training, this episode is for you.
Because here’s the hard truth: food safety compliance isn’t a paperwork problem. It’s a people problem.
Recorded at the Food Safety Consortium, Tia explains why technical brilliance won’t move your organization forward unless you can explain the why in a way that actually resonates, from preventing foreign material contamination to navigating food safety audits for foodservice.
In this episode:
💩 [01:52] Why technical food safety knowledge isn’t enough for lasting food safety compliance
💩 [05:17] The myth of “21 days to change a habit”
💩 [09:42] The four levels of food safety professionals
💩 [12:58] The “gasket story” that perfectly illustrates foodborne illness prevention and foreign material risk
💩 [19:01] Budget battles: How to pitch food safety investments to your CFO without getting shut down
💩 [27:57] Why traceability software fails (spoiler: it’s not the tech)
💩 [29:45] What’s missing from industry conferences? More culture. Always more culture.
Disclaimer: Episode title and content do not constitute legal or health advice.
Resources from this episode
Connect with Tia here.
Past episodes with Tia:
- Food Safety Talk with Tia Glave and Jill Stuber from Catalyst | Episode 36
Food Safety Voices: Communicating Effectively in Challenging Times (LinkedIn Live) | Episode 106
Noteworthy quotes from this episode
“I don’t need to be the voice of food safety culture as a food safety professional. Everyone knows I care about it. I need that maintenance tech to be talking about it. I need the finance team to be talking about it in a meeting. I need someone else who I didn’t even know heard me to be talking about it in their circles. That’s what we need. We need that commitment, and you get it through connecting to their values.” – Tia Glave
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