b'Your Change Expert, WENDY HOFFORDOn leaving the family farm to change the corporate cultureby Twila DriedgerNNineteen years ago, Wendy Hofford was at a crossroads. Knee-deep in dirt and drowning in debt at the family farm, she had two options: stay in her current situation or make a change. A stay-at-home mom of three with a grade 12 education, Wendy went back to school and earned a diploma in human resources. Seven years later, she was running a multi-million-dollar call centre.Its Hoffords farm to boardroom talefrom working a combined 12 jobs between her and her husband just to make ends meet, to her experience creating a positive working culture in the corporate worldthat has her credited as a powerful, relatable and inspiringChange Expert.This past February, Hofford made another big change and left her full-time HR job to focus her energy on helping others to embrace their own change. A gifted professional speaker and trainer, Hoffords charisma and congenial qualities make her seem as much a friend and a colleague asa coach. CM&E:Clarity came to me that I had two When did you realize Your Change Expert sat downthat you needed to make a changechoices. I either stay in the situation with CM&E to discuss how, throughin your own life? or make a change. And I remember, her experiences, stories, techniques and strategies, she partners withI stood up, I wiped the dirt off my audiences and clients to WENDY:hands and I made a deal with the I remember the day embrace change. I was literally knee-deep in the dirt.Lord that whatever came across my 20 CORPORATE MEETINGS & EVENTS corporatemeetingsnetwork.ca'