WOMEN LEADERS IN FOODSERVICE


there, it can be scary. If you don’t ask, the answer is always going to be no.” Gustafson shared her


story, working her way up in a consulting business where she was office bound until she asked to meet clients with colleagues. “When I insisted, new


doors started opening for me and I brought new clients to the company,” she recalled. “I think it is very important that you implement that rotation in the company. Tat gave me a chance to get out there and see what the world of consulting was like


outside the office setting.” Te three, having now


made it to a high level in the foodservice sector, are keen to encourage younger women to join them in changing the face of the business. “I’d advise them to get


themselves a good female mentor and stay with her and learn,” said Gustafson. Morales agreed. “It is


very important to have good women close to you,” she said. “I’d say that they need to be curious to come to this beautiful sector and keep learning.”


“I think the most important qualities are that quiet confidence and positivity, learning and listening before you speak; all those soft skills”


Daro stressed the need


for each of us to find our own confidence and rest in that. “I know I am not a man, I am not going to be a man, I think about things differently but there is a place for all of us,” she said. “I think the most important qualities are that quiet confidence and positivity; learning and listening before you speak; all those soft skills.” Concluding the discussion,


the panellists expressed hope that foodservice is a sector on the cusp of real change when it comes to gender equality.


The panel shared their journeys to leadership roles in their own careers


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