Welcome to another episode of Inside Personal Growth! We have Maisie Ganzler joining us today for her upcoming book You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company.

Maisie is an expert strategist with deep experience in scaling organizations, branding, cross disciplinary management, forging supply chains, and sustainability. Currently, she is the Chief Strategy and Brand Officer of Bon Appétit Management Company – an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, museums, and specialty venues. Based in Palo Alto, CA, we operate more than 1,000 cafés in 33 states for dozens of marquee clients. Having joined Bon Appétit when revenues were just $94M, Maisie has been involved in all aspects. She currently manages all brand-related support departments — culinary, purchasing, strategic initiatives, nutrition and wellness, Web development, marketing, and communications — that make up the DNA of this food service pioneer.

Maisie has also served in advisory/board positions for exciting for profit and non-profit organizations such as Air Protein, Blendid, Just, the Equitable Food Initiative, FoodWhat?!, JUMA Ventures, and others.

With all her expertise and experiences, Maisie has completed a book which is set to be released on April 2, 2024. The book title is You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company. Through this book, Maisie takes you to pig farms and boardrooms, factories and farmers’ markets, teaching you not only how to operate more sustainably but also how to get the credit you deserve for doing it.

You may learn more about Maisie by visiting their company website through this link.

Thanks and happy listening!

 

You may also refer to the transcripts below for the full transciption (not edited) of the interview.

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