Her family has built an empire in aquaculture -- and now, Regal Springs Tilapia’s Magdalena Lamprecht Wallhoff is well on her way to helping to change how the company and the industry does business. What can fish farmers around the globe learn from this top executive?

Regal Springs is the largest tilapia company in the world, with annual sales nearing $200 million and employing more than 8,000 people in Indonesia, Mexico, Honduras and the United States. But walking into Global Sales and Social Investment Director Magdalena Lamprecht Wallhoff’s small Edmonds, Washington office, about 17 miles north of Seattle, things seem rather ordinary.

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