Building Better Businesses #004 - "Growth Hacking: Food & Bev, and beyond"
In this occasional series we talk about the inner workings of for profit / for good businesses: we surface common challenges and pitfalls across the various elements of a business, and talk with experts about how to address them.
Up next: "Growth Hacking"
Ever wonder how that hot sauce got on your supermarket shelf? Join me as I talk with Amy Jermain of Plumbline CoLab about what it takes to get that handmade food product into a grocery store. Few sectors exemplify the rigor required to take a great prototype to scale as consumer packaged goods, especially in the food and beverage industry. 🍏
Amy Jermain is the Principal of Plumbline CoLAB, a strategic support collaborative designed to improve and align the business needs, mission and programs of nonprofit organizations, public entities, and social impact initiatives with gender and culturally competent strategic advising and facilitation that centers impact and human wellbeing in partnership with experienced practitioners.
Amy’s depth of experience in program, advocacy and impact strategy comes from her work at the United Nations, in Brussels, as a Program & Policy Officer at World Food Programme to field work with partner NGOs in SE Asia, West Africa and Central America. Her focus in women’s economic empowerment and vocational training has been foundational to her projects with Mercy Corps, Xcelerate Women, Friends International and Zebras Unite. Her current portfolio features developing theories of change and strategic plans for impact organizations such as The Contingent and Oregon Ocean Cluster. She continues her work in economic development via enterprise capacity building and technical assistance projects in building more robust food system infrastructure with Oregon food hubs and the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
Amy holds Masters degrees from the University of Kent at Brussels and Portland State University.