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Level 1 Food Systems Consultant Training
March 8, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm CST
Note: This Event Is Sold Out!
If you would like to join Food Finance Institute Food Systems Expert in Residence Eric Deluca for a future Level 1 Consultant Training, visit our Consultant Training Page, fill out the form, and let us know you are interested in our Food Systems Consultant Training in the comments.
Level 1 is a prerequisite for our Level 2 Consultant Training.
Level 1 Focuses On
- Food Industry Market Trends, with current COVID-19 updates and implications
- Conducting Market Research
- Food Business Models Basics – Benchmarks and Metrics
- Putting it all Together – Case Studies and Business Model Optimization
Level 1 Goals and Objectives
After our training you should have the tools, templates, and resources to enable you to better:
- understand current market trends and consumer preferences that drive and shape food, beverage, and value-added farm businesses
- analyze and rework your clients’ business model to ensure long-term profitability – we call this process Business Model Optimization.
- know where to access industry information to best inform client advising
About The Trainer
Eric DeLuca has engaged in over $10 million in funding decisions benefiting working lands enterprises since 2010 and serves on the national Food Systems Finance Advisory Council of the Council of Development Finance Agencies. For three years he led the Slow Money VT network catalyzing impact investment in the food system asset class, as well as the Financing Crosscutting Team of the VT Farm to Plate Network. He co-founded the University of Vermont Food Hub Management Professional Certificate program, the first of its kind in the country. DeLuca managed the U.S. Program for the UN-declared International Year of Cooperatives. He guided the development of the Neighboring Food Co-op Association—now a network of over 35 food co-ops in New England and NY State with $90 million sales of local products annually. Principal of Leverage Point Consulting and previous vice-chair of the Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Board.