Scaling Smarter: Unlocking Growth & Efficiency in Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Join us for this live webinar and learn how to scale smarter, not harder!
Growth is exciting—but for food and beverage manufacturers, it often brings new challenges. As production scales, maintaining efficiency, protecting margins, and ensuring food safety become even more critical. Without the right systems in place, what should feel like progress can quickly turn into bottlenecks, waste, and missed opportunities.
That’s why Maryland MEP is hosting Scaling Smarter: Unlocking Growth & Efficiency in Food & Beverage Manufacturing—a one-hour webinar designed to help leaders uncover smarter ways to grow. Together, we’ll explore the strategies top manufacturers are using to strengthen their operations, align product development with process efficiency, and protect profitability as they expand.
This isn’t about theory—it’s about practical, real-world insights. You’ll hear how companies are addressing food safety risks before they become costly problems, where they’re finding hidden efficiencies in their processes, and how they’re building resilience for long-term success.
What You’ll Learn:
- Real-world operational improvements that unlock scalable growth
- Approaches to food safety that go beyond compliance
- How to align product development, process efficiency, and profitability to protect margin as you scale
In Partnership with:
DATE & TIME:
- October 28, 2025
- 10:00 – 11:00 AM
LOCATION:
- Virtual
COST:
- There is no cost to attend this webinar, but you must register.
CONTACT:
For more information about this training, please contact:
Sara Keith
Maryland manufacturers
Maryland MEP Incumbent Worker Training Program
Maryland MEP through the Maryland Department of Labor’s EARN initiative has made funding available for Maryland manufacturers to assist with the total cost of training for incumbent workers. To be eligible, your organization must be registered with Dun and Bradstreet and have a valid manufacturing NAICS code, and have a physical location in Maryland.
About the Instructor:
Matt Inniger
Partner - Shaprio Negotiations Institute
As a partner of the firm, Jeff has led high-impact negotiation and influence sessions—ranging from forty-five minutes to multi-day engagements—while also coaching and training professionals across a variety of industries. His audience size has ranged from five executives around a boardroom table to one thousand people in an auditorium. In addition to his role as an educator and an entertainer, Jeff has also played a significant role in designing negotiation training programs for SNI.
Jeff has delivered customized programs for clients across many functions and sectors, including: Financial Services (Barclays, PricewaterhouseCoopers, J.P.Morgan Chase); Government (Defense Acquisition University, Department of Treasury); Pharmaceutical (Novo Nordisk, Sanofi-aventis, Bristol Myers Squibb); Insurance (GeneralReinsurance, Nationwide); Telecommunications (Verizon, Comcast); Medical Devices (Toshiba Medical Systems, Siemens Medical); Sports (Chicago Bears, Baltimore Ravens, Madison Square Garden); Media (ESPN, Hearst Corporation); Aerospace/Manufacturing (Boeing, Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney), and a host of others. Jeff also works closely with the Anthony Robbins Platinum Partnership, an exclusive membership-only group personally coached by Tony Robbins.
Thanks to Jeff’s global experience, he is often asked to speak on international and cross-cultural negotiations. Equally, having served as both a sales manager and sales trainer—and having trained hundreds of procurement professionals—he offers a unique 360-degree perspective on procurement and sales.
Before joining SNI in 2000, Jeff was an Account Manager for Tessco Technologies, the nation’s largest communications infrastructure supplier. He managed a portfolio of over 250 accounts including Mitsubishi Electronics. In his role as corporate sales trainer, Jeff was responsible for educating new sales professionals and handled new hire training for Tessco, a company that had grown to $196 million in annual sales at the time of his leaving.
Jeff’s first career was working in Nepal for three years as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. Assigned to the Nepal Bank Ltd., he used his status as an outside foreign advisor to successfully implement a micro-lending project targeting poor farmers and small business entrepreneurs to help them form borrowing co-ops.
