The Pacesetter Pod
As an agribusiness executive, you operate at the intersection of value creation and preservation.
You are challenged every day to take risks and grow the business while protecting the organization, people, and customers with superior execution.
From highly fragmented supply chains and capital intensive business models to exceptionally narrow margins and hyper-competitive markets, you need an edge to outperform the competition.
Welcome to The Pacesetter Pod, where we explore and reveal the perspectives, insights, and approaches to deliver great results and growth in your agribusiness, through better execution.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Ep31: Create Markets Don't Chase Them with Jeff Van Pevenage
Jumping into new markets is quite difficult…
It’s like walking in a dark, abandoned cave, not knowing what scary thing will pop up next.
So it’s crucial that you have someone that can guide you throu…
Ep30: The Best Decisions Don't Run From Risk, They Build Off It
As a leader, you must make decisions. The problem is you need to make the decisions before you have all the necessary information.
Delaying your decision makes your team question your leadership ski…
Ep29: Supply Disruptions are Demand Opportunities with Ken Dallmier
Agribusiness was about being the best supplier of calories in the past.
But with the global supply of food getting much more competitive, you either have to enter a price war or distinguish your offe…
Ep28: Three Questions you Cannot Afford NOT to Ask
The difference between a successful M&A that excites your team, grows your revenue, and creates a better experience for your customers… And a failed one where you invest tons of capital and time and …
Ep27: Safety Performance is Business Performance with Marc Mears
No plan survives first contact with the enemy.
While this saying has its roots in the military, it applies perfectly to your business.
As a business leader, you may be well prepared if a plan doesn’t…
Ep26: Effective Leaders Compete with the Competition, Not Each Other
The most popular definition of leadership alignment is a fine line between productive dissent and aiding your team to operate as a group.
But like it is with most “soft” skills, no one will come to y…
Ep25: Future-Proofing your Agribusiness with Garrett Stoerger
The best company you can acquire is often not the most successful.
Instead, it’s more important to assess how well the seller prepares the exit.
This may sound obvious, but most M&A integrations fail…
Ep24: Overcoming the Heavy Lift of M&A Cultural Integration
An M&A integration may fail if you ignore the culture of the company you acquire.
A business may have a similar offer in the same market as you, which makes them an excellent candidate to integrate i…
Ep23: Executing Ag Strategy with Steve Becraft
One of the fatal mistakes agribusinesses make is focusing their strategy around their margins.
Yes, it’s true that your business depends on the value it creates in the economy.
But some of the best s…
Ep22: A Profile of Effective M&A Integration Leadership
M&A integration is a process where nothing may happen for a long time.
And then everything happens at once.
But this can go 2 ways.
Either you enter a lucrative market, or you can scare your customer…