Operations Leadership Development
Senior business leaders, Kathy Miller and Shannon Karels offer inspirational keynotes and development programs designed to develop and empower resilient leaders of all levels.
Keynotes
Women in Leadership & STEM
Kathy and Shannon offer sage advice on key success factors that shaped their careers. They share their unique perspectives about the relationships, realities, and results that contributed to their professional trajectories, all while unapologetically contributing from a place of authenticity.
Leading Meaningful Business Transformations
Leading change that results in new ways of doing business and better results is facilitated by deliberate endeavors. From setting the vision through celebrating their teams’ success, Kathy and Shannon share the elements that drive an engaging, high-performing culture, and ultimately accelerated improvement.
Development Programs
Meaningful Lean Transformations for Manufacturing Plants
Learn the implementation roadmap of a meaningful, results-driven transformation. Kathy and Shannon have collectively provided leadership to hundreds of manufacturing plants globally utilizing the steps they describe in Steel Toes and Stilettos. Key points of the lean system elements and the fundamental environmental characteristics required to achieve sustainable success are taught.
Value Stream Transformations: From the Plant to the Office
Many organizations that undertake a lean transformation begin and end their efforts in manufacturing. However, the principles and tool sets, with minor modifications, are equally applicable in the business functions of a company. Learn how to take the lean concepts to functional processes to enjoy operational excellence throughout the enterprise.
Effacious Workplace Development Program
Develop individual and leadership skills based on principles that are scientifically correlated to personal and organizational thriving. Through a series of group discussions and experiential homework assignments, participants learn concepts and techniques that contribute to an efficacious workplace. (Efficacious means possession of a special quality or virtue that gives effective power.)
Coaching
Individual
Receive individual coaching sessions from an International Coaching Federation Certified Coach with over 30 years of senior leadership experience and formal education in the science of human flourishing.
Group
Teams of 8-12 participate in a facilitated learning program consisting of 10 sessions designed to improve individual and leadership skills based on principles that are scientifically correlated to personal and organizational thriving.
Through group discussions and experiential homework assignments, participants learn principles and techniques that contribute to an efficacious workplace. (Efficacious = possession of a special quality or virtue that gives effective power.)
