The Right Mix: How CraftMark Bakery Blends People, Process, and Learning

On most shop floors, training quality depends on who's doing the training. That inconsistency has a cost - and it shows up in ramp time, turnover, and output.

Join Meaghan Meyer, SVP Manufacturing, Quality & Compliance at CraftMark Bakery, and Redzone Product Consultant, Derrick Bookwalter, for an honest conversation about what it actually takes to build a frontline workforce that performs consistently across shifts, across lines, and through turnover.

You'll hear how CraftMark moved from a reactive, high-churn environment to one where new hires ramp faster, skills are visible to leaders, and institutional knowledge doesn't walk out the door when a veteran operator does.

Walk away with:
- A real-world look at how a high-volume bakery tackled onboarding, retention, and upskilling with Redzone Learning
- Practical approaches you can bring back to your own floor, whether you're managing one shift or multiple lines
- Insight into what changes when training is tied directly to performance, not just compliance.

If inconsistent training, slow ramp time, or knowledge gaps are holding your team back, you won't want to miss this one.

Meet Meaghan Meyer

Meaghan Meyeris Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, Quality and Compliance at Craftmark Bakery, where she leads quality, operations, engineering, and workforce initiatives. With more than 20 years of experience in food manufacturing, she has built a track record of delivering measurable results.

Prior to Craftmark, Meaghan held quality and food safety leadership roles at Weston Foods, where she developed training and continuous improvement programs across dozens of manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Canada. A Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, she is known for using data-informed problem solving to drive operational efficiency and organizational effectiveness across multi-site manufacturing environments.

Meaghan is active in industry leadership as Committee Co-Chair of the Food Technical and Regulatory Affairs Committee (FTRAC) for the American Bakers Association, and she mentors students pursuing careers in food science, food safety, and regulatory affairs. She holds a Master of Science in Food Safety Management and International Food Law from Michigan State University and a Bachelor of Science in Food Science from Purdue University.

Meet Derrick Bookwalter

Derrick Bookwalter is a workforce technology strategist specializing in food and beverage manufacturing, with deep expertise in learning management systems, frontline workforce development, and AI-driven operational performance. He has guided manufacturers through LMS implementation and helped organizations move from tribal knowledge to scalable training programs that meet both production and compliance goals. At Redzone, Derrick uses a consultative approach and his extensive domain knowledge as a trusted advisor to help customers modernize how they onboard, develop, and retain their frontline workforce.