Webinars & Courses
Build & Enhance Skills With Webinars & Courses
Our webinar offerings span a wide range of topics but remain anchored in the needs of the fresh produce industry. From leadership development to integrated pest management, topic experts spend 30-minutes deep-diving into practical, relevant subject matter. Many sessions include live audience Q&A, interactive toolkits and actionable takeaways.
Our course offerings include multi-day online programs led by expert facilitators who keep each session interactive and engaging. These courses are designed to drive company-wide change by combining practical skills with meaningful personal reflection. We encourage multiple employees from the same company to participate together, building shared knowledge that supports the implementation of key social responsibility initiatives.
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Meet Our Facilitators
Lulu Rivera
Lulu’s facilitation style is rooted in adult education principles, where she values the learner’s experience and encourages reflection, self-directed learning, and practical application. She designs dynamic, participatory learning experiences that empower adult learners to build upon their existing knowledge and skills. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she combines her facilitation expertise with strategic planning, project management, and stakeholder engagement to drive organizational success. Her commitment to fostering inclusive, supportive learning environments create spaces where individuals can thrive and contribute meaningfully to their communities and organizations.
Alice Linsmeier
Alice is currently the Manager of Organization and Workforce Development of EFI. In her capacity at EFI she is responsible for working with workers and their employers in recognizing and developing skills and competency for working together on issues of workforce education and development, improved work conditions and environment.
She has facilitated farmworker management Leadership Team trainings within EFI’s certification program from its inception in 2012. In addition, she facilitates the international LT Advisory Committee, comprised of frontline farmworkers and managers from all the LTs. Alice integrates her experience in popular education and adult education that she has learned from her greatest teachers, the farmworker communities in Central America, Mexico, United States and Canada for decades. They have inspired her to earn a teaching credential and a Masters in International Multicultural Education and contribute to her continuous learning and improvement.
Karla Cook
Karla is an experienced accountable leader with a strong understanding and robust experience in compliance and ethics verifications program for retail, manufacturing and fresh produce supply chain. Karla has worked extensively throughout the latin America region educating, driving and implementing compliance initiatives enabling manufacturers and growers to be more competent to sell their products to the US and European markets. Born in San Francisco but later moved to El Salvador, graduated from high school and got her University Degree in Business Administration from Universidad Jose Simeon Canas. Learning how to live in two cultures helped Karla understand how to make locally relevant, those international business standards and requirements. She enjoys baking, watching movies, road trips and scuba diving. Karla is currently finishing her master’s degree in renewable energy with an emphasis on environmental management systems and currently resides in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle is currently the Director of Organization and Workforce Development at EFI. In his capacity at EFI he is responsible for working with growers and their employees in developing skills and competency for working together on issues of workforce education and development, improved work environment, food safety and sustainable pest management.
His experience ranges from designing and facilitating from total factory redesign in the chemical, manufacturing, textile and telecommunications industries in US, Canada and Europe; also redesign and process improvement in agriculture, service (public and private), healthcare organizations and union organizations. He has facilitated over 200 collective bargaining sessions using an interest-based approach to reach common agreement on labor and management interest and needs in negotiations in the US and Europe.
Kevin also facilitated the multi-stakeholders from agriculture, growers and unions; retailers, food safety, social responsibility, integrated pest management and workforce educators to develop and create what is today the Equitable Food Initiative.
Lilian Autler, MA
Lilian is an educator and facilitator with extensive experience in project management, organizational development, research and fundraising. She worked for ten years in organizational and workforce development with EFI, training worker-manager teams on agricultural operations in North and South America. Previously, she worked as an adult educator with immigrant workers in union, workplace and community settings and as a community development planner. Lilian mas a master’s degree in urban/regional planning and bring content knowledge related to food systems, environmental sustainability, climate adaptation, and community development. She deeply believes in the power of play and creative expression to build connections between people across cultural, class and educational diversity. She is currently based in Massachusetts.