I started on a butter-plant floor - visiting farms, learning how milk actually becomes product, and discovering the idea that still drives me - there is value at every level of an organization. A decade later, I lead Planning & Dairy Analytics for a dairy cooperative in the Upper Midwest. 

The throughline was never the math. It's translation - taking the parts of the dairy that sit locked behind jargon and bringing them down to where everyone in the room can use them. No dumbed down. Brought down.