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Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders

A coffee podcast providing coffee shop owners and leaders, with insights, inspiration, and the tools you need to grow and advance your coffee business or coffee career. We learn from experts both in and outside the coffee industry as they deliver specific, practical, and actionable advice about ownership, optimization, profitability, barista work, employee culture, management, scaling, leadership, personal development, and anything else that will help you achieve success in the coffee shop.
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Mar 22, 2022

It's not very often you come across someone who has spent decades as a true example of what it is to be an exemplary manager, leader, and professional. When you do find them you better be prepared to absorb their wisdom and let it help guide your own career. 

Well, today we are privileged to sit down with some one who has done exactly that. We are talking all about leadership, management, and training, with Selina Viguera of Blue Bottle Coffee!

Selina Viguera is well-known in specialty coffee mostly for being an amazing and dedicated barista. She leads the Barista Guild Café at Specialty Coffee Expo and U.S. CoffeeChamps; she’s been a lead barista at TED in Vancouver, as well as TEDxWomen and TEDxMed; her latte art is featured on the Pacific Barista Series Oat and Rice packages. And she’s been “the face” of Blue Bottle, especially in her adopted home in Los Angeles, for years.
 
Selina Viguera is a coffee professional who has worked in the industry for over 20+ years. Selina has managed some of the busiest Blue Bottle cafes in the North American market such as San Francisco’s Ferry Building location and LA’s Abbot Kinney location, where she is currently the cafe leader for over 7 years. 
 
In our conversation we explore here long career and the experiences that have shied who she is as a leader today. 
 
We cover:
  • Discovering the work of the cafe and then specialty coffee
  • Connecting with customers and becoming a leader
  • Leading the change to specialty in her first cafe
  • Learning to train and teach
  • Doors opening for management and leadership
  • Leading "Team First" and the metric of staff happiness
  • Training and onboarding effectively
  • Empowering feedback and conflict resolution 
  • Balance of structure and culture
  • Embracing difficult conversations and being courageous
  • What she is most proud of accomplishing
  • Advice to fellow managers

Links: 

Instagram: @sellybean_13 

Email: Selina.viguera@gmail.com

 

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