Business Management

Learn from Leaders

Learn from Leaders is just one way the Lakeland Business Management program provides value-added experiences for our students and community.

Access to local leaders in business management, human resources, entrepreneurship and leadership gives students and community members the opportunity to learn from the best, ask questions and gain invaluable insight into the business world.

The following event requires registration!

• Nov. 12 | 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | A-2100 | Nathan Rutz ft. Ingbert Schmidt - Director of Soil for Rust Belt Riders Composting.

View the live presentation videos from our previous guests here.

Leaders:

Nathan Rutz is a professional composter which means he gets to drive big machines, start hundreds of seedlings, think critically about our social-ecosystem, and talk about poop and corpses in professional settings. He works as Director of Soil at Rust Belt Riders Composting in Cleveland Ohio, a worker-owned cooperative that rescues food from the landfill and makes and sells compost and compost based products for home gardeners and organic growers under the name Tilth Soil.  He is a Certified Compost Operations Manager through the US Compost Council and elected board member of the Ohio Organics Council. Rust Belt Riders won best small scale composter of the year from USCC in 2019, a special recognition award from SWANA-Buckeye chapter in 2022, and the H Clark Gregory Award for outstanding service to the compost industry through grassroots efforts from the USCC in 2024. Nathan is glad to be living on Earth and hopes that compost can play a role in healing broken places while making use of squandered sunshine.