Elizabeth Ward is a Recruiting and Training professional with nearly 20 year’s experience partnering with Agriculture producers to source the best talent and equip teams with the knowledge and skills to add value and increase the return on each owner’s investment in the food supply chain. Having worked with some of the top producers in the nation, Elizabeth is a skilled international and domestic recruiting manager, passionate training and development administrator and well-versed Human Resources advisor.

Elizabeth is fluent in English and Spanish and has successfully worked in 5 countries, with a focus on Latin America and North America. Her hands-on experience growing up on a farm in Nebraska, combined with a masters in International Business from the University of Texas give Elizabeth the work ethic and knowledge to overcome the challenges of today’s agriculture industry. Elizabeth brings a deep cultural and interpersonal understanding of the needs of both the producer and the worker in order to make a sustainable relationship.

Elizabeth is a managing partner of Soluciones Recruiting, Translating, Training, LLC working to recruit and train the right team members for Ag producers across the nation.

Maria Schott is an accomplished professional with more than 14 years’ experience in management in the Agriculture and Financial industries.    

Maria grew up in Costa Rica, where she attended EARTH University and received a Bachelor’s degree in Ag Science. Her passion to travel took her to live and work abroad, spending time throughout Central America and Chile, where she cultivated relationships and networks throughout Latin America. In 2007, Maria grabbed an opportunity to move to the United States to work in the swine industry. Her strong background in management was enhanced by the hands-on opportunity to work in commercial swine production. Maria’s expertise encompasses recruiting, training, personnel management, production placement, professional translating and customer service.    

Maria has always had a passion for training and recruiting. From her time as a Farrowing Manager in large commercial barns, she set out to staff her department with most talented farm employees; she was determined to find the best team and train them for success. Later, Maria moved from production to Human Resources, where she started applying her skills to a company-wide approach of recruiting and training a multi-lingual workforce. Maria loves connecting good people with good companies!  

Maria is a high-energy, accomplished focused professional, known to her clients and candidates as someone who really gets things done! She delivers high quality results efficiently because she understands that your production needs won’t wait , when she is takes on a project, she does it “today not tomorrow” .