How to Build a Proactive Food Safety Culture (That Auditors Love)

Episode notes

In this episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork , host Lydia Adams is joined by Lora Stone, a food safety and quality leader with more than 15 years of experience. Lora shares how her grounding in mindfulness practices - shaped through formal training and inspired by influential books such as The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn - supports her approach to leadership, communication, and decision-making in high-pressure regulatory environments. Lora explains how connecting teams to the “why” behind food safety regulations builds genuine buy-in and helps employees understand that every rule exists because something once happened to protect consumers. She walks through her model for managing multiple certifications - including GFSI, FSMA, Kosher, Organic, and Halal - by integrating requirements into existing programs instead of creating separate systems. She also discusses the power of slowing down, using intentional pauses, and approaching challenges with clarity to improve problem-solving during operational or regulatory pressure.

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