Red Chocolate Has Arrived with Tom Finn and Glenn Gardone

Glenn Gardone, a 30-year veteran of the Consumer-Packaged Goods industry, is a proven growth strategist. Glenn is the President of Red Chocolate and shares his experience in finding his purpose, building a culture, and bringing a European chocolate company to the US. Glenn explains the importance of creating value for customers and building a culture. He also shares his personal advice for entrepreneurs: be positive, find people you can latch onto, and build relationships.Talking Points: {03:22} Glenn the whirling dervish{04:57} The defining moment{08:40} Tactics to help build a culture within teams and organizations{10:50} The Chocolate business{16:62} Bringing a European company to America{18:50} The Art of Deal-making{25:48} The process to understand the value continuumGlenn Gardone Bio:Glenn is a 30-year veteran of the consumer packaged goods industry. He has had the pleasure of leading and building amazingly successful teams while helping people enjoy their Sunday nights! He has played the role of Multiple Award-Winning Chief Revenue Officer, with more than 15 years of revenue generation experience in building unified performance-based sales cultures He has worked in industry-leading organizations such as Del Monte Foods, Inc., The Kellogg Company, and Pepsico, Inc.He is now the President of RED chocolate. www.red-chocolate.com.RED was born from the passion of European Master Chocolatiers. They envisioned chocolate with the expected delivery of divine creaminess, yet without the added refined sugars of commercialized chocolate. It wasn’t intended to be a “healthy” alternative or a “dieter’s” chocolate. The intent was to simply create chocolate emphasizing the natural sugars we experience when consuming fruits. He has worked at 4 of the top CPG (Consumer packaged goods) companies in the world in various positions such as sales, marketing, & finance. As an award-winning, entrepreneurial, multichannel growth strategist with a distinguished record of producing immediate results, along with massive sales growth for multinational Fortune 100 brands, including some of the largest direct store delivery (DSD) and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the world— his experience is broad ranging & encompasses small startups to enterprise-scale businesses. Resources and Links: Website: https://www.red-chocolate.com  Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/Glenngardone  Connect with Tom Finn LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therealtomfinn/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/therealtomfinn YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@therealtomfinn Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealtomfinn Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealtomfinn/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealtomfinn Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/therealtomfinn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices