Meghann Harker
5th Generation Family Member
Cargill
Meghann Harker is a family member, spouse, and fifth generation mother to 4 children. She spearheads two family engagement programs, one for adults and one for children. Meghann is a perpetual student in Kellogg Northwestern’s executive education programs. Cargill originates grain and oil seeds and moves them from areas of surplus to areas of deficit, transforming them into value added products for industrial and human consumption. We feed animals and we disassemble animals, we trade on commodity markets around all of those activities. We are the largest charterer of dry bulk freight in the world, we do trade structured finance. oh and we make chocolate!
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Working Groups: From a Whisper to a Scream — How NextGen Women are Finding their Voices – Speaker
So you’re new to family business decision making and you have ideas. Big ones. What is the best approach for sharing those ideas? How can you bring your innovative — even disruptive — ideas to your family’s business? And how will you possibly find the time to bring those ideas to fruition when you’re taking care of very young kids? It can be daunting, but we offer advice on how NextGens can be both family-focused and entrepreneurial.