Food For Thought

Innovation requires out-of-the-box thinking. Whether in the chicken industry – or another sector of food or agriculture – being innovative often means leaving your comfort zone and expanding your network. If you’re looking for connections across the food value chain that can help drive innovation for your organization, we welcome a conversation. Our team of search professionals leverages deep industry knowledge, data, and connections (100,000+ executives in our proprietary global database) to identify and place leaders with the right experiences, values, and cultural fit to help organizations innovate.

Striving toward a more diverse workforce is not new. It has been incrementally happening for the last few decades; recent years and events have brought a renewed focus, sense of urgency, and understanding.

Today, the organizations we serve, are experiencing significant need for talented executives and senior level leadership. Filling a seat with a qualified individual is not enough. Given the demand for talent, leadership retention becomes an imperative priority.

For 40 years, Kincannon & Reed has served the ag food value chain, touching upon all stages, from putting a seed in the ground to stocking the supermarket shelf, every function, and all geographies. The executives that we place with our clients are highly engaged in this endeavor and they are making a difference in what we consume every single day.

It will take innovative approaches to address the demand for pork. It will also take innovative leaders and the right strategy to bring them to the industry, and to the organizations in need.