Training & Mentoring

During 2019 and throughout 2020, Marie worked with the Failte Ireland Food Tourism team of Tracey Clouglan, Sinead Hennessy and Laura Brody on the “Building World Class Food Tourism Networks” programme. A summary of the project included a full day training programme and accompanying workbook in addition to two days mentoring with each of the food networks across the country. Each network (up to 25 food networks) in the programme, received one to one mentoring with Marie and a workshop tailored to their objectives. The workshops were onsite in Q1 2020 and online in the 2nd/3rd quarter of 2020. Marie worked closely with the network led to create a finalised action plan for each network taking into account COVID19 and changes in their target markets.  The programme finished with an online webinar in November 2020 and a video entitled “Hear industry voices share how to build world class food networks and grow connections.”