Join us for an NMC webinar presented in Spanish byJuan Quezada, "Leaving a Leadership Legacy: Where Milk Quality Starts"
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 1:00 PM – Chicago time
Description
Given today’s challenges of finding, training and retaining employees, dairy operations must develop a culture that creates a positive and welcoming environment for new hires. Too often, dairy producers and industry professionals want immediate results for accelerated performance and lasting change. However, several leadership and training programs produce short-term gains, such as in milk quality, that will fade away as teams go back to their old habits. When a culture of excellence is built, it then creates an organizational structure that empowers, focuses and engages employees.
During the webinar, Quezada will share that he is motivated by other people’s success. “I want to have a positive influence on others,” he stated. He will discuss the importance of employee engagement and working together as a team. Ultimately, a culture of excellence empowers employees to execute best practices, such as proper milking procedures, and achieve sustainable results. Learn how to create, develop and maintain a culture of excellence.
Juan Quezada, Milk Source LLC’s director of training and development, is a globally recognized expert on achieving high-achieving dairy operations, including individual animal care, herd dynamics and farm safety.
A 43-year dairy industry veteran, Quezada worked in New Mexico, California and Texas before joining Milk Source in 1998. He worked his way up from milker to a director-level leader who has mentored virtually every senior manager in the company. Milk Source, which maintains five dairies, a show barn, calf-raising facility and heifer lot, holds the distinction of being the single largest milk producer in Wisconsin, also known as “America’s Dairyland.”
Quezada successfully co-founded Milk Source University in 2019 – a two-year training program that identifies the next generation of farm managers and then hones their leadership skills. Additionally, he has consulted with dairies – large, small and everything in between – across the United States, as well as Mexico, Germany, Spain, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
