This month we are honoring Adam Hagar, MBA, CEC, CWPC, CDM, CFPP, of the Ohio (OH) ANFP. Adam joined ANFP in 2008 after taking the Dietary Manager’s Certification program at Columbus State Community College, apprenticing at New Albany Gardens and Care Center with Don Damron, and successfully completing the CDM Credentialing Exam.
For Adam, volunteering is a way of giving back to those who have helped him through the years, serving in long and short-term roles and wherever assistance is needed either with ANFP or other organizations. He began volunteering with ANFP in 2021 as the chapter treasurer and is currently serving as the chapter president. As chapter president, he is focused on driving member engagement at the chapter level and introduced monthly, virtual education sessions for members as one way to increase this. Ohio members are offered monthly, free presentations where they can earn CE hours in sanitation or ethics as well as general hours. With the assistance of the Chapter Secretary, they recruit speakers in various disciplines, or Adam presents the topic himself. These sessions take place online via Microsoft Teams around the 3rd week of each month and are available to all OH ANFP members. In addition to the monthly sessions, Adam and his team digitized and centralized all past and current documents related to the chapter for a seamless transition for future leadership. Adam also serves on the Chapters Insights & Data Task Force that is taking a closer look at all areas related to ANFP chapters.
Outside of volunteering with ANFP, Adam has volunteered with Columbus ACF as the Dining Room Manager at the Columbus Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Clam Bake at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and provided training for displaced people, in food safety and basic kitchen fundamentals, to give them the skills they need to create a career in hospitality. He has also served as the Certification Chair for the Columbus ACF from 2012-2016.
For the future of the OH ANFP chapter, Adam plans to revive the regular state conferences once again and give members a chance to get away from their day jobs and learn new and upcoming trends that they can then take back to their facilities. He also plans to continue to build relationships with vendors and speakers so the chapter can once again have the educational seminars they had pre-pandemic.
Thank you, Adam for your hard work and service to ANFP and the OH chapter. Dedicated volunteers such as yourself ensure our chapters are stable and continue to benefit our members. We appreciate your volunteerism!
We’d like to recognize you as our Volunteer of the Month. Please send your nominations to asolazzo@ANFPonline.org.