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Workforce Innovation in Manufacturing: Gilster Mary Lee and Boone Center on Inclusion, Retention,...

In today's episode, host Matt Horine interviews Tom Welge, CEO of Gilster-Mary Lee, and Troy Compardo, CEO of the Boone Center, about workforce innovation through employing people with disabilities and neurodiverse individuals. Welch shares Gilster-Mary Lee’s evolution as a long-standing private label food manufacturer and how labor shortages drove efforts starting in 2019 to recruit and support employees with autism through manager training, better job definition, and role matching, resulting in 21 neurodiverse employees and strong retention and culture benefits. Codo explains Boone Center’s mission since 1959, its pivot to contract packaging, and current operations employing 185 adults with developmental disabilities, plus community placements and job coaching. They describe a partnership sparked by a need for e-commerce fulfillment and discuss misconceptions, scalable practices, and future goals including broader adoption, career advancement, and addressing transportation barriers. Timestamps 00:00 Welcome and Theme 01:14 Meet Tom Welge 02:17 Labor Challenges at Gilster 02:59 Meet Troy Compardo 04:43 Boone Center Mission 06:31 Gilster Food Manufacturing 08:22 Partnership Origin Story 11:54 Building Inclusive Jobs 14:47 Myths and Retention Wins 16:50 Systems That Sustain 19:04 Scaling the Model Nationwide 23:06 Five Year Vision 28:20 Where to Learn More 29:50 Closing Takeaways Links ⁠Tom on LinkedIn⁠ (  / tom-welge-1b258215  ) ⁠Troy on LinkedIn⁠ (  / troycompardo  ) ⁠Gilster Mary Lee⁠ (https://gilstermarylee.com/) ⁠Boone Center⁠ (https://boonecenter.com/) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://sustainment.com/) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Navigating Trump 2.0 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.veryableops.com/navigatin...) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Revitalizing US Manufacturing⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.veryableops.com) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign Up on the Veryable Platform ⁠⁠ (https://company.veryableops.com/creat...)