I’m Coleen Thornton, Steward with Heaven Sent Food Safety Consulting, a team of food safety experts and consultants with a passion for helping food companies build strong, sustainable safety systems. I bring over 10 years of industry experience and hold an MBA focused on finance and accounting. We work with food manufacturers across a range of sectors, including ingredients, snacks, dairy, ready-to-eat foods and packaging, to help them meet regulatory requirements, customer expectations, and GFSI certifications such as SQF, BRCGS and FSSC 22000.

I specialize in:

• Cost of Quality
• Developing customized “Livable Compliance Programs” to meet rapidly changing industry demands
• Internal and third-party audit readiness, corrective action planning
• Preventive controls and root cause analysis
• Documentation systems and Supplier Approval Programs
• Sanitation, maintenance, and Program GAP assessments
• Team training and food safety culture development

Whether I’m guiding a facility through preventing recalls or helping refine an internal audit program, my goal is always the same: build systems that work on the floor, not just on paper, to prevent a costly recall.

I’m open to consulting opportunities, collaborations, and speaking engagements related to food safety strategy, compliance risk, and operational improvement.