Lone Jespersen is principal and founder of Cultivate, an organization dedicated to helping global food businesses make safe, great-tasting food through cultural effectiveness. She has significant experience with manufacturing, having previously spent 11 years with Maple Leaf Foods leading the execution of the company’s food safety strategy and operations learning strategy and prior to that engineering and operations roles in the global automobile industry. Lone holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Syd Dansk University, Denmark, a Master of Science in food science from the University of Guelph, Canada and a Ph.D. in culture enabled food safety with Dr. Mansel Griffiths at the University of Guelph, Canada. She led the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) technical working group, A Culture of Food Safety, and currently is the chair of the International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) professional development group, Food Safety Culture.
