Leadership Connection Interview with Drew Troyer

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Drew Troyer in Episode 28 of this series.

Drew brings nearly 30 years experience and thought leadership in the fields of manufacturing reliability engineering and physical asset management. He believes that most organizations in the physical asset-intensive industries have a tremendous opportunity to improve the uptime, profitability, safety and environmental performance of their plants and physical assets with a dedicated focus on reliability-driven practices.

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Leadership Connection Interview with Thomas Boehm

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Thomas Boehm in Episode 27 of this series. Thom H. Boehm is a knitting machine technician at Stanfield’s Ltd., a textile mill in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.  He has worked there for the last 20 years, and before that was an English teacher in Japan.  At Stanfield’s, although down in old textile lingo as a knitter/fixer, he does whatever needs to be done to keep the room functioning as well as possible, and this includes repairing and maintaining a host of different styles of circular knitting machines.

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Leadership Connection Interview with Jason Tranter

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews CEO Jason Tranter in Episode 23 of this series. Jason Tranter is the founder and CEO of Mobius Institute.

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Leadership Connection Interview with Denise Reed

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews Global Chief Diversity Officer Denise Reed Lamoreaux in Episode 22 of this series. Denise has been involved in diversity and learning-related endeavors for 30 + years.  Her career has encompassed Secondary Education, Professional Leadership Coaching, Leadership, and Instructing at both the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and Monroe Community College’s Corporate College program.

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Leadership Connection Interview Rendela Wenzel

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Rendela Wenzel in Episode 21 of this series. Highly accomplished and motivated Reliability, Maintenance, Process, and Project Professional with years of experience in Pharmaceutical, Automotive, and Food and Beverage Operations. Her experience includes API Pharmaceutical/ Biotech Manufacturing which includes high-risk Mechanical Integrity processes, Corporate Global Reliability Ownership and Oversight, Engine and component machining, casting, and assembly manufacturing.

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Leadership Connection Interview George Galvin

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader George Galvin in Episode 20 of this series. George is a chemical engineer that spent the first half of his career the commodity chemical manufacturing and technology environments. Development is his core value, and he builds teams that learn, improve, and deliver.

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Leadership Connection Interview Michelle Henley

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader Michelle Henley in Episode 19 of this series. Michelle Henley is President of TMG Frontline Solutions where she has spent the past 20 years helping hundreds of organizations navigate the difficult waters of organizational change using a game-based simulation.  Her enthusiastic facilitation style along with the innovative workshop design bring the workforce (even the most skeptical among them) energetically onboard with their site’s reliability improvement efforts.

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Leadership Connection Interview Rob Kalwarowsky

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Robert Kalwarowsky in Episode 18 of this series. Robert started Rob’s Reliability Project (now Maintenance Disrupted) in 2018 and currently produces leadership & mental health content for the industrial community. Rob has spent almost 10 years as a reliability engineer & asset manager within mining, oil and gas, and consulting industries.

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Leadership Connection Interview Scott Brown

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Scott Brown in Episode 16 of this series. Scott joined Shell in 2006 following eight years as an Aeromedical Evacuation Officer and Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot in the U.S. Army. Scott started as a Reliability Engineer on Shell’s Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico, analyzing unscheduled production deferment and equipment failure history to determine overall risk and economic potential of improvement scenarios. He facilitated numerous root cause analysis investigations, utilizing various RCA methods such as 5-Why, Apollo Reality Charting, and Causal Learning.

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Leadership Connection Interview Don Yates

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Don Yates in Episode 15 of this series. Mr. Donald Yates is a senior manufacturing executive with more than 40 years’ experience spearheading the rapid and sustained growth of leading manufacturing organizations. Mr. Yates gained his expertise in lean manufacturing by building effective teams, and formulating strategic reliability plans during his extraordinarily successful career in several leadership roles.

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Leadership Connection Interview Rick Baldridge

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Rick Baldridge in Episode 14 of this series. Rick Baldridge, CMRP, CAMA is the Corporate Reliability Excellence Leader and has 41 years of experience working within Cargill. Experience in plant operations management, project management, information technology, procurement management, reliability excellence and maintenance management.

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