​Did you know...30% of family farms make it to the 2nd generation; 12% of those make it to the 3rd generation; 3% make it to the 4th generation. As a dairy farmer’s daughter, I have seen the tragedy when farm families fail to plan  the legacy they want to leave for future generations. Families who have the tough conversations and begin the estate planning discussions early have more control over the legacy they leave. 

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What is the vision you have for your operation?  Do the people involved want this life or is it someone else’s dream? Where do you start? How do you start? This presentation will provide a starting place for these critical discussions. It takes one generation to build a farm; one generation to grow a farm, and one generation to lose a farm. 

For the first time in history, up to five generations find themselves working alongside one another in a typical company or organization. What does that mean? Collisions, frustrations,strange interactions or perhaps it even seems as if each generation is literally speaking a different language. How can we hope to work together when we can’t understand each other?

This presentation will provide facts and statistics and strategies for working across the generations. Through humor, personal experience, stories and honesty, the audience will come away hopeful, rather than hopeless.

There are very few projects that we work on for an entire lifetime. In fact, you are the only consistent in your life, from birth to death. Family, friends, colleagues, jobs will all come and go, but YOU go with you everywhere. If this is true, then why wouldn’t we want to become the best version of ourselves. How do we do that over time? This presentation provides encouragement and practical application with tools and resources for each person to implement as they become a leader others want to follow.

Our mind is a powerful force, in fact, I might argue, it’s THE most powerful force we as human beings have. It is our control center. Health has been categorized into several dimensions: physical, intellectual, environmental, vocational, social, emotional and spiritual. Personally, I consider the overarching umbrella of these dimensions to be our mental fitness. 

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I would compare the health of our mind to the soil of our land. Without proper care, expertise, resources, and intentionality, over time, it will become strained and not properly grow the seeds we plant. You are the most important commodity you have. How will you tend to your mind, intentionally putting the best nutrients into your mind so that you can care for and reap the best for your life?

“No one likes change!” I believe this is a false statement. If we didn’t like change we would live in the same house, drive the same vehicle, wear the same clothes, talk to the same people, and buy the same foods week after week. 

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What I believe is that people don’t like the process of change. This is where we get tripped up. It is not a question of change, but  of change management.  Change is inevitable; the question is how do we manage change so it doesn’t undo us, even if it’s a change we want. Methods, tactics and attitudes to lean into the changes are the focus of this presentation.