Moving Forward by Going Back to School

Huse Culinary’s VP of Culture and Learning Leanna Chroman came to the realization that in order to keep pace with new restaurant training processes she needed to go on a bit of a journey. After rising through the ranks of the Indianapolis-based Huse, which owns the legendary St. Elmo Steak House, Harry & Izzy’s, HC Tavern + Kitchen and 1933 Lounge, Chroman was in placed in charge of training. Right away, she felt the methods were a bit outdated and that you couldn’t expect people to read a 200-page manual. 

“That’s just not how people learn today. I realized I didn’t have the answers,“ she said. "So, one day I just made this decision: I’m going to go back to school.”

Chroman enrolled at Purdue Global, where she began working on her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial/organizational psychology. She is using what she has learned both in the restaurant industry and in her Purdue Global classes to train the trainers, especially in…