April 8 / 4:00 - 5:00 pm ET

From Culture to Compensation:

A Bakery Owner’s Guide to Building a Strong Team. 

Part 1:   What are Your Culture & Core Values?

As a bakery owner or operator, you do a lot of important and impactful things--you create community, generate economic activity, and you nourish people, but perhaps the most important and difficult thing you do is create jobs and manage people.

In the first installment of this three-part series on building, managing, and motivating teams, Nancie Breunig of Companion Baking will explore how your bakery's culture and core values can serve as the foundation for a strong, successful team.

In this session, we will discuss:

• How to define your bakery’s culture
• What strengthens company culture and what weakens it
• How to identify and implement your core values

Your bakery’s culture and core values are the foundation of a thriving team. By understanding what shapes your workplace environment and aligning your core values with daily operations, you can foster a motivated, engaged, and successful staff. Join us for this insightful session  to gain practical strategies for strengthening your team and setting your bakery up for long-term success.

This session is part of a series.  You can purchase each session individually, or buy the bundle and save $5 per session.

With Nancie Breunig, Chief Happiness Officer for Companion Baking

My love of baking started when I was a child baking with my mother & grandmother.  There is magic that happens in the kitchen.  In my early 20’s, I had a career change  and followed my passions to attend The French Culinary Institute in NYC.  The rest really is history.  I have worked the gamut from 5 star to personal chef to corporate, QSR to bakery production. 

I joined Companion Baking in 2016 as an assistant production manager and shortly thereafter became the production manager.  After a few years, I took on the role of culture and development manager and I currently serve as the Chief Happiness Officer for Companion.  While I still have the opportunity to bake, my days now are focused on engagement, training, development & safety. 

Companion Baking, located in St. Louis, MO, was founded in 1993 by Josh Allen.  With a focus on the 4C’s – Companions, Customers, Community and Company – Companion has built a small family-owned business with strong reputation for doing things right.  They specialize in serving multi-unit concepts, retail growers and product development for food service innovators.