How it works
We Start with a Conversation
We take time to understand your business, your workforce, and your goals. Whether you're a family-owned farm, a growing food processing plant or enterprise, we tailor our approach to your needs. Schedule your introductory call with us today!
We Deliver and Support Your Team
We provide direct support to your employees, helping them grow in confidence, competence, and career direction. As a third-party partner, employees are more likely to be open, honest, and engaged, free from internal biases and office politics. Utilizing a third party can be viewed as a neutral, confidential, and trustworthy source for underserved or frontline employees who may not feel safe voicing concerns to in-house teams.
We travel to you to provide services in-house or virtually to your employees, and they will have after-hours access for coaching and mentorship if they prefer.
We Keep It Affordable
We offer flexible pricing and partner-based models so that small farms and large companies alike can provide quality development to their teams. Your employees shouldn’t have to pay hundreds for coaching; we make it accessible by partnering with you.
Why It Matters
Turnover is expensive. Replacing an employee can cost 30–50% of their annual salary. Not to mention downtime, productivity, recruitment, and training costs.
Retention is loyalty. When employees feel invested in, they’re more likely to stay and thrive.
Growth builds culture. Investing in people creates stronger leaders, safer workplaces, and better performance.
Who we are
After nearly a decade of public service, Deanna returned to where her heart had always been, agriculture. From walking fields to working in manufacturing plants, she realized her deepest passion wasn’t just in the work itself, but in the people doing it. She found purpose in helping others grow, succeed, and see a future for themselves in the industry that feeds the world.
Cut Above Consulting was born from that passion. A mission-driven firm dedicated to developing the people behind agriculture. Deanna believes that when employees are seen, supported, and given room to grow, they don’t just stay, they thrive.
Her work is guided by a simple truth: cultivating people cultivates possibility. Through mentorship, training, and strategic development, Cut Above Consulting empowers agricultural businesses to build strong, resilient teams—because thriving individuals lead to stronger farms, plants, and communities.
Contact us
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