Now, as the primary feminine CEO of Land O’Lakes — and the first openly gay female CEO in the Fortune 500 listing of largest US corporations — Ford remembers a dialog together with her mom years in the past that taught her that “whereas we could not have the whole lot, we have now sufficient, and given what we have now, a lot was anticipated of us.”
“She stated, ‘Do you perceive what is predicted of you? Do you perceive how a lot you may have? Do not disappoint,’ and I used to be like, ‘I’ve gotta work exhausting to not disappoint,'” Ford says.
Ford has a imaginative and prescient for Land O’Lakes. She desires to remodel folks’s perceptions of the butter and cream firm and refocus consideration on the efforts it is making within the ag-tech area.
“My imaginative and prescient is to proceed to spend money on know-how,” she says. “It’s important to have agility. E-commerce and e-business and know-how is disrupting all industries, together with agriculture, and there is a possibility when you may have an insight-driven, technology-focused firm, as I imagine Land O’ Lakes is.”
