Daniel Reed

Senior Manager, Digital Operations Baldwin Richardson Foods

Daniel Reed started his career as a design engineer at a small OEM building custom conveyance systems and learned digital manufacturing by automating his own job first. That experience carried him to a multi-national, a not-for-profit manufacturing innovation institute, and to his current role at Baldwin Richardson Foods managing the digital transformation portfolio and leading enterprise architecture. Dan has spent his career both causing and solving diverse problems alongside organizations of all sizes and is excited to share his perspective with those also building real things that last in the heartland.

CWM Summit Day Two - October 15, 2026

2:30 PM Case Study: Driving Transformative Change while Navigating Real World Constraints and Uncertainty

Manufacturing leaders are being asked to innovate faster than ever while still protecting process stability, quality and safety. Yet the greatest variable in any transformation is not the technology, but the people who must adopt new ways of working. This session explores how to balance ambition with operational reality by understanding the human bandwidth for change, anticipating where resistance will emerge and designing transformation efforts that respect the pressures teams face. Through firsthand accounts of successful and challenging change efforts, this presentation offers practical frameworks to help leaders visualize impact on specific personas, evaluate readiness and communicate change in ways that build trust, clarity and momentum.

• Understanding the real world constraints that shape change capacity across teams, functions and shifts

• Using persona based frameworks to map how change affects different roles

• Balancing innovation with process stability and variation reduction

• Communicating change in ways that build trust, clarity and shared ownership

• Making better decisions by assessing "change bandwidth" early and often

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