Agape Food Safety and Coaching LLC

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Agape Food Safety and Coaching LLC

Agape Food Safety and Coaching LLCAgape Food Safety and Coaching LLCAgape Food Safety and Coaching LLC

Expert guidance and support to help you achieve your food safety and academic career goals.

Empowering Professionals to Succeed through consultation and coaching

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Expert guidance and support to help you achieve your food safety and academic career goals.

Empowering Professionals to Succeed through consultation and coaching

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Agape Food Safety and Coaching LLC

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Empowerment through Education

Agape Food Safety and Coaching LLC is a two-pronged business that provides food safety consultation to the food industry and coaching to academic professionals. We offer transparent and open communication, compassion and empathy, comprehensive and critical listening, and timely response to all our clients.

Dr. Angela Walla (formerly Shaw) has been a professor of food microbiology for over 10 years.  As a researcher and educator, she actively conducts research focused on FDA regulated products and provides education to the food industry.   Outside of research, she helps food companies navigate food safety regulations and provides food safety education workshops and courses.  Her portfolio includes over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 20,000 education and training contact hours, and over $20 million in federal and state grant funding. 

As a tenured faculty member, she has been through the ranks at two R1 institutions and has guided over 100 faculty, staff, and students toward their career goals. She has held multiple leadership positions at the university, college, and department level and lead multi-institutional and multi-state funded centers. Her portfolio includes coaching in the U.S. and other countries.

Agape Food Safety Consulting Services

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What do we offer:

  1. Regulatory Support and Interpretation
  2. Crisis Response Management
  3. Food Safety Risk Assessment and GAP Analysis
  4. Literature reviews and educational consultation
  5. Challenge Study Testing Design and Interpretation
  6. Training and Education
  7. Employee mentoring and coaching
  8. Microbial laboratory support and training
  9. Ghost employee (undercover in your food facility to identify key food safety risks)
  10. General food safety consultation

Areas of expertise include:

  • Interpretation of laboratory microbial results
  • Culture Competency 
  • Development and Evaluation of Employee Training Programs
  • Outbreak investigation 
  • Regulatory inspections and interactions
  • Interpretation and response to product positives
  • Food Safety Modernization Act Preventive Control Plans
  • Hazard Analysis Critical Control Plans
  • Food Defense
  • Recall plan review
  • Hazard analysis review
  • Environmental monitoring program development and evaluation
  • Sampling and testing plan review
  • Inspection policy review
  • And general food safety consultation

Courses Offered Include:

  • Lead Trainer for Preventive Control and Qualitfy Individual Training for Human Food
  • Lead Trainer for Produce Safety Alliance Grower Trainer
  • Lead Trainer On-Farm Readiness Reviews
  • Lead Trainer for Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) and Group GAPs Training
  • Lead Trainer for Good Manufacturing/ Handling Practices
  • Basic and Advanced Food Microbiology
  • Basic and Advanced Microbiology Techniques
  • Data analysis and interpretation
  • ServSafe Certified Trainer
  • Cleaning and Sanitizing in the produce and manufacturing industry
  • Risk-based assessment
  • Contact me to discuss other topics

Countries Served:

I have had active research and education projects around the world.  These projects include general food safety consultation and education, Such countries that I have worked with include:

  • Kenya
  • Mexico
  • Caribbean
  • China
  • Romania
  • Sloviana
  • France
  • Morocco
  • Uganda

Much more...

As an extension and outreach specialst since 2010, I have had the opportunity to support food companies, grocers, farmers markets, distributors, manufactures, and brokers from around the world.  From a company profiting $20,000 dollars with 2 employees to a multi-mullion dollar food company with thousands of employees around the world, I have been their when FDA or state inspectors were knocking on the door. No consultation job is too small or too large.  As an active food safety researcher, I am privileged to be in spaces where top food safety research is being exchanged and best practices are tested and established.

Get Ahead with Agape Academic Career Coaching

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Academic Coaching

  • Determining your ideal position and developing a strategy to steer your career
  • Determining professional development and skills needed for the future
  • Strategies to Maintain and Excellerate Productivity
  • Developing and/or refining Leadership Skills
  • I have to give a speech for an event! HELP!!!
  • Post Tenure Slump: I am no longer passionate!!! HELP!!!
  • When is it time to move on to a new opportunity?!
  • And general academic coaching and career coaching

Tenure, Promotion, and Beyond

  • Planning the first 3 years
  • Post third-review planning
  • Preparation and/or review of the tenure and promotion packet
  • Selection of peers to review packet
  • It’s time to go from Associate to Full Professor, let me help you prepare for that transition!
  • And general career coaching

Problem-solving

  • Crisis Management: There are many crisis in academic from flooded labs, a graduate student who quits in the middle of a project, an extra leadership volun-told to you, or sudden life changes. Let me help you develop a strategy to put out the fire and continue to flourish
  • Balancing work and life (time management and self-care)
  • Navigating life changes (such as children, caring for an aging parent, death, etc.)
  • Navigating department, college, and university politics
  • Mentoring the next generation: Graduate student, post-doctoral students, and undergraduate management
  • Navigating academy as a BIPOC in your unit
  • And general academic coaching

Academic Agenda Planning


  • Establishing a research program
  • Teaching and developing  undergraduate and graduate courses
  • Conducting Teaching Scholarship
  • Determining where to publish
  • Determining where to find funding
  • Management of students
  • After Tenure and Promotion, establishing an international portfolio
  • And general academic coaching

Extension, outreach, and service appointments

Extension, outreach and service appointments are unique. Let me help you develop an extension and outreach program and strategize how to measure the impact on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of your target clientele.  I have build an program at 2 different R1 institutions (one a Land Grant and an other a minority serving institution). This service can be utilized in general career coaching at land grants and non-land grant institutions.

Professional Development

We offer customized training and consulting services for organizations and universities looking to invest in their employees. Our programs include leadership development, communication skills, career coaching and team building.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at Agapefoodsafetyandcoaching@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

We offer: 1) Food safety consulting for the food industry, consumers, and/or government agencies; and 2) academic career coaching. 


No, we offer public and private training and educational opportunities in food safety.


Yes, I am available to be an expert witness or consult on any food safety legal case.


No, we offer coaching for assistant professors to dean level.  Our goal is to understand your career goals and develop a strategy for you to have a fulfilling career.


Although my career has focused on FDA regulated products, you should know that I have my bachelors degree in Animal Science and a master's degree in Meat Science focused on processed meats.  My knowledge lies in both FDA and USDA products.


Our fees vary depending on the services requested. We have a separate fee structure for food safety consulting and the academic coaching. Please contact us for more information.


We begin with an initial consultation to discuss your goals and needs. This is typically through a free 30-minute virtual consultation session.  From there, we create a customized plan for you and provide ongoing support throughout the process.


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Agape Food Safety and Coaching

5154513243; Agapefoodsafetyandcoaching@gmail.com

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