IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Coca-Cola Consolidated joins as Platinum sponsor of Dare to Overcome National Faith@Work ERG Conference, with Vice President of Culture & Care to share how faith is key to the company’s transformational journey.
Mark Whitacre will share about the transformation journey at Coca-Cola Consolidated into a purpose-driven, faith-friendly, and servant leadership orientated organization. The session will include how Coke Consolidated has transformed its workplace culture by providing chaplaincy at all of their production and distribution sites (102 sites), and also how prayer groups and Bible studies play a critical role in culture transformation.
Mark Whitacre’s major passion the past 2 decades is the faith at work movement. Mark is Vice President of Culture & Care and Executive Director of the t-factor initiative at Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. and Mark has worked with Coca-Cola Consolidated since 2019. Mark had served as National Director and then COO of Christian Business Men’s Connection (CBMC) from 2013 to 2019. Mark previously was the COO and Chief Science Officer from 2006 to 2013 at Cypress Systems, Inc., a faith-friendly, purpose-driven biotechnology company located in California.
After completing his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Ohio State University, Mark earned his Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in biochemistry. He worked as an executive for some Fortune 500 companies, including Ralston Purina (now Nestle), Degussa (now Evonik), and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). He was recruited at ADM when he was 32 as the President of the Biotech Division. Mark has extensive international business experience, having lived in Germany for four years working for Evonik at their world headquarters in Frankfurt.
Mark and his wife Ginger have been married over 43 years and have three adult children.
