Mary Wold Gochnauer joined Dreyer’s in 1982, where she worked on a variety of key projects, including creating guidelines and best practices for managers, designing the employee pension and savings plan, and coordinating and planning “Dreyer’s University” from its inception. Within these varied activities, her central focus was the development, refinement, and expansion of Dreyer’s unique work culture as the company went through massive growth – including the company policy to not have a Human Resources Department. In her over two decades at Dreyer’s, Gochnauer took responsibility for many of the issues typically handled by Human Resources, such as employee training, workman’s compensation, EEO regulation compliance, health and benefits, while avoiding the bureaucratic infrastructure and slowdowns that typically accompany those necessary corporate tasks.