Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford: From the Cornfield to the C-suite

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Beth Ford is the newly appointed President and CEO of Land O'Lakes, and the first woman to run the company. She also makes history as the first openly gay woman to run a Fortune 500 Company. She opens up about her rise to the top and what the Trump administration's tariffs mean for their farmers. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.4	with your manager, to say, what do I need to do to be in position to be considered for that?
0:31.6	I would say you have to be, you have to recognize and be ready for the answer.
0:36.3	Beth Ford, the newly appointed CEO of Lando Lakes,
0:40.4	and the first woman ever to run the company,
0:43.3	from detassling corn for two bucks an hour to the C-suite.
0:48.1	Ford also makes history in another way.
0:50.3	She's the first openly gay woman to run a Fortune 500 company.
0:54.5	My aspiration, obviously, was to be the CEO.
0:57.1	The fact that I'm openly gay or that I have my spouse as a woman and I have these children
1:02.2	is just part of my life.
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