FEDA Young Industry Leaders Retreats Return
Ice-O-Matic will host the 2024 retreat with a focus on leading through economic downturns and business transformations.
As FEDA celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2023, it was not lost on us that many of the distributors the association represents have been around even longer. Foodservice equipment and supplies distributors have endured for so long in part because they’ve been able to successfully transition between each generation of the business, maintaining what sets their company apart while innovating alongside their customers and technological progress. Part of FEDA’s mission is to help distributors maintain and develop that pipeline of generational talent through the FEDA Young Industry Leaders (YIL) program. For the past several years, that has come largely through our online YIL forums and special programming
Young Industry Leaders
20 FEDA News & Views
By Tim O’Connor Communications Manager
at the FEDA Annual Conference. However, this upcoming year we are thrilled to bring back the in-person YIL retreat for the fi rst time since before the COVID-19 pandemic. These retreats are among FEDA’s most popular programs and are an effective way for those in the early and middle stages of their careers to learn about the industry, create connections with their peers and think more deeply about leadership topics that will benefi t their organizations. The 2024 YIL retreat will be held at Ice-O-Matic’s headquarters in Denver from April 10-11. Ice-O- Matic President Erica Motes and Director of Sales and National Accounts Brittany Skulski will lead the retreat, which will be open to any FEDA member between the ages of 21 and 46. “We are very excited to host the YIL event because attracting and retaining new talent is critical to the success of our industry,” Motes says, adding that this kind of in-person leadership discussion is invaluable
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