The 2018 Managers Academy for Dairy Professionals, themed “Attitude: Bringing the magic to dairy” is set for January 16-18, 2018, in Orlando, Florida. This executive-level three-day training brings together CEOs, dairy owners and managers, industry directors, processors, marketers and distributors.

​Attendees will learn from Walt Disney World Resort’s former Executive Vice President Lee Cockerell and Dr. David Kohl, professor emeritus in the agricultural and applied economics department at Virginia Tech. Cockerell and Kohl will share secrets of hiring right and training employees to have the right attitude. The event will include a tour of a Disney park so attendees can discover how the Disney culture, protocols and systems directly relate to dairying.

Participants will also hear from Jim Sleper, CEO of Southeast Milk, Inc. as he shares how they partner with large fluid processors such as Publix Super Markets, Dean Foods and Borden’s. In addition, attendees will tour the Iron Bridge Regional Water Reclamation Facility in the Orlando Easterly Wetlands and learn how the facility ‘polishes’ highly treated water before discharging it into the St. Johns River system.

For more information visit www.pdpw.org or call 800-947-7379.