How to Build an Unshakable Food Safety Culture Without Perfect Systems with Dom Mitial

Episode notes

In this episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork, host Lydia Adams sits down with Dom Mitial, VP of Food Safety, Quality, and Regulatory at Goldbergs Group, to discuss how to build a strong food safety culture while driving business growth. Dom shares practical strategies for fostering cross-functional collaboration, gaining executive buy-in, and leading transformational food safety teams. The conversation explores actionable insights on balancing compliance with business objectives, navigating the unique challenges of airline catering, and integrating emerging technologies into food safety programs. Dom emphasizes the importance of transitioning from transactional to transformational leadership, where understanding individual working styles and building strong relationships across departments are key to creating a sustainable food safety culture. He introduces a diplomacy framework for aligning food safety requirements with business goals, demonstrating how separate quality and compliance teams can work together without conflicts of interest.

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