FOOD SAFETY LEADERSHIP
Elevate Your Mindset, Transform Your Organization
Our THIRD Workshop, based on Popular Demand
Anelich Consulting and Vyanzo Development are partnering once again to offer this unique interactive and experiential training and group coaching workshop.
We have enhanced the programme with new modules that reflect the latest thinking, emerging trends, and best practices in food safety leadership. Our programme partners with you to discover the life-changing impact of our novel approach, leading to sustainable long-term change in building leaders with the knowledge and skills to lead organizations effectively in food safety.
Leading an organization and building a truly efficient and effective culture that supports food safety requires a growth mindset that inspires individuals and fosters psychological safety in the workplace.
Our approach to training and coaching the current and next generation of food safety leaders from CEOs to other leadership levels, aims to change the narrative, building business leaders who excel in food safety. This programme will support you as a leader to increase your presence and impact, equipping you with the skillsets, mindsets, and toolsets needed for this transformation and change.
Programme Benefits
Develop your leadership skills in food safety through:
- Systems Approach to Food Safety: Understand this novel approach which goes beyond the Food Safety Management System and regulatory compliance
- Growth vs. Fixed Mindsets: Learn to adopt a growth mindset and avoid complacency
- Comprehensive Mindset Training: Understand why a growth mindset is crucial for effective/meaningful food safety leadership
- Language and Beliefs: Discover the power of language and beliefs in shaping reality
- Team Dynamics: Building trust across teams, bridging the gap
- Ownership and Response-ability: Take ownership and learn to respond effectively
- Foundation Building: Identify and strengthen your weakest link
- Clear Communication: Master effective and clear communication
- Difficult Conversations: Gain skills for having effective conversations and build a robust communication culture
- Leadership strategies: Handling food safety issues with confidence
- Psychological Safety and Trust: Foster psychological safety and trust within your team
What is different with this programme from any other?
- We have added new modules to keep the training relevant and to support our own culture of continuous improvement.
- It does not provide detailed technical training in food safety, but focusses on the higher level of leadership, specifically in food safety
- It is designed to unpack the deeper human elements that lead to limitations in establishing effective team cultures of food safety and therefore does not focus on measuring food safety culture per se.
- It focusses on helping leaders identify what may be hindering them in their efforts to create a culture of food safety in their organisations.
Who Should Attend?
Middle to senior and executive-level leaders in all divisions of the business including marketing and human resources who want to increase their ability to influence, impact, and create positive change in their teams and the broader systems within which they work.
Join us to transform your leadership and your organization. Unlock your potential and lead with confidence, clarity, and purpose in fostering an effective team culture of food safety, with the aim of preventing food safety failures.
Date: 05 August 2026
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: Focus Rooms, Heaton Lane Longlake 20, Modderfontein Lethabong, Sandton
Cost: R5900 excluding VAT (discount of 5% for group bookings of 8 or more from the same company)
Your Trainers
Prof Lucia Anelich of Anelich Consulting:
With a PhD in Microbiology and after several decades in food safety practice, covering academia, industry associations and the private food production, manufacturing and retail space, Lucia has experienced first-hand the significance of the human element in food safety and in particular, leadership.
Lucia has worked with leaders who genuinely champion food safety, and the impact is evident in every aspect of the organisation. It can be seen in the simple act of a senior leader greeting a frontline employee by name, and the pride and engagement that acknowledgement creates. It is reflected in employees who feel confident to stop a production line when they identify a food safety risk, knowing they will be supported rather than criticised. It is evident when food safety discussions are integrated into everyday business decisions, not treated as a compliance afterthought.
Unfortunately, she has also seen the opposite, where a person in a leadership position creates an environment of fear and suspicion in which there is a complete lack of trust between members of a team and in leadership; she has experienced how this has led to a direct failure in food safety.
In partnering with a credentialled and internationally certified coach (Lee Griessel) and building on her successful Food Safety SummitTM Lucia and Lee share a totally novel approach that will positively impact the food industry and that goes beyond the technical. She is thrilled with this continued partnership, due to its success in the food industry and looks forward to this third and novel workshop.
Lee Griessel from Vyanzo:
Lee is an accredited COMENSA master coach and an internationally accredited Executive Coach (ACMC), NLP Practitioner and experienced Facilitator and is a registered member with the ISNS, MCF, COMENSA and the ICF. She specialises in developmental and transformational coaching of individuals and teams.
Lee has worked in various environments supporting Executives and their teams and is passionate about supporting them with mindset and belief change concepts as well as facilitating their own discoveries of how these can be applied and implemented to get meaningful change.
Lee has run her own coaching practice since 2007 and in addition to the 17 years of coaching experience, Lee has more than 25 years of experience in the Corporate, as well as small business environments where she held various senior Leadership and Management roles.
Lee is delighted to have the opportunity to partner with Lucia to support the industry with this novel course that has already impacted the food industry in a positive way, since its inception in 2023.
