Todd Spencer
Kruger Family Industries
Portage, WI USA
"You don’t always get every job you want, you don’t always get every promotion you want, but it’s about not losing your confidence in yourself to be able to say, ‘I can learn this.’"
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Technology Education
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Graduate Degree
Secondary Education
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Life & Career Milestones
I've taken a lot of twists and turns
1.
I started my career as a high school teacher—I taught technology education, industrial arts, and woodworking.
2.
I taught for eight years before leaving to start a photography business with a friend, where I managed marketing and sales.
3.
I spent four years with the company and then moved to join Flambeau, Inc., a plastics manufacturing company.
4.
I worked at Flambeau for 17 years, starting as a training manager and working my way up to CEO, heading different departments along the way, including human resources, training, accounting, and IT.
5.
After 17 years, I joined Kruger Family Industries, a manufacturing conglomerate, to help with their efforts to merge two former competing divisions, Penda and TriEnda, into one company.