b'GOING THEEXTRA MILEFor the chief executive officer of Limagrain Cereals Research Canada, keeping your eye on the finish line means the difference between success and failure.Marc ZienkiewiczIN JANUARYof 2015, Tatiana Henry found herself and her team at Europes Limagrain Field Seeds caught in perhaps the most challenging situation they had ever faced.After a ceasefire between the two sides collapsed, Russians and Ukrainians found themselves submerged in an armed conflict that sent the region into upheaval. The conflict itself was the result of what is known as the War in Donbass, an ongoing conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. Since the start of the conflict there have been more than 20 ceasefires, each intended to remain in force indefinitely, but none of them stopping the violence.At the time, Henry led a team charged with the task of ensuring growers had access to field seeds.Now the chief executive officer of Limagrain Cereals Research Canada, the experience taught her the value of staying focused on the road ahead and not quitting when things get harda key quality for any good leader to have. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she also serves of CEO of Limagrain Cereal Seeds, Henry talked to Germination from her home office, which she has been working out of pretty much full-time since March. For someone who until then spent up to 60% of her time travelling internationally, staying at home has been a real change for her.Its been a lot of conference calls, for sure, she says with a chuckle, adding shes always liked the solitary experience of focusing on her work alone at a desk. As a child growing up in Ukraine, she spent a lot of time in her fathers lab. He was a physics scientist, and after school shed run there to do her homework. It was quiet, and she was able to concentrate. Her mother was involved in the Ukrainian textile industry. My family had no real involvement in agriculture,but I grew up around science, the 44-year-oldmother-of-three says. I always liked biology, chemistry and math. You com-bine those and you have agronomy. When I called my mom and said I got into the ag faculty in Kiev, she was 20GERMINATION.CAJULY 2020'