The Leadership Connection™️

The Leadership Connection™ is home to conversations with leaders from the condition monitoring, reliability, and maintenance industry. If you are looking to develop in your career, this is your connection! Leaders come from all over the world to share their experience and advice about leadership with contributing host and industry leader, Doug Plucknette. Produced by the industry's leading learning and networking community; MOBIUS CONNECT®.

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TLC 022 Leadership Connection Interview with Denise Reed

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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TLC 021 Leadership Connection Interview with Rendela Wenzel

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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TLC 020 Leadership Connection Interview with George Galvin

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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TLC 019 Leadership Connection Interview with Michelle Henley

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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TLC 018 Leadership Connection Interview with Rob Kalwarowsky

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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TLC 017 Leadership Connection Interview with William Bower

Leadership Connection Interview William Bower

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, Interview’s reliability leader Will Bower in Episode 17 of this series. Will is the Director of Services with Maintain CM based in the United Kingdom. Will strives to help engineering mangers achieve reliability excellence through every channel that he can.

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TLC 016 Leadership Connection Interview with Scott Brown

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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TLC 015 Leadership Connection Interview with Don Yates

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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TLC 014 Leadership Connection Interview with Rick Baldridge

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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TLC 013 Leadership Connection Interview with David Howard

Leadership Connection Interview David Howard

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader David Howard in Episode 13 of this series. David Howard is an American entrepreneur, a veteran of the United States Air Force, and respected leader in the predictive maintenance industry. David is the CEO of Erbessd Instruments and is responsible for Strategic Direction, Distribution, Sales, Marketing and Operations worldwide.

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TLC 012 Leadership Connection Interview with Perry Steele

Leadership Connection Interview Perry Steele

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Perry Steele in Episode 12 of this series. Perry Steele is a maintenance & reliability leader that has extensive experience in large, industrial manufacturing facilities. He has a passion for helping teams Deliver Certainty to their customers in these organizations.

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TLC 011 Leadership Connection Interview with Cliff Williams

Leadership Connection Interview Cliff Williams

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Cliff Williams in Episode 11 of this series. Cliff has had a successful career in Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management spanning four decades and industries from Steel, Pulp and Paper and food and beverage giants Coca Cola and Kraft. He has recently retired as the Corporate Maintenance and Reliability manager for a Canadian based chemical manufacturer where he guided the performance at 10 facilities.

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TLC 010 Leadership Connection Interview with Jason Hartman

Leadership Connection Interview Jason Hartman

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Jason Hartman in Episode 10 of this series. Jason has held many roles in leadership and currently is a top leader, leading teams in a diverse number of plant operations roles including production management, project management, facility leadership, maintenance management, reliability leadership, and manufacturing engineering.

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TLC 009 Leadership Connection Interview with Bill Barto

Leadership Connection Interview Bill Barto

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Bill Barto in Episode 9 of this series. Bill has spent over 20 years in various Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance roles. His work interests include Preventive Maintenance Optimization, Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS).

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TLC 008 Leadership Connection Interview with Ron Moore

Leadership Connection Interview Ron Moore

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Ron Moore in Episode 8 of this series. Ron specializes in maintenance, manufacturing performance leadership, and engaging the workforce, management. Ron is the author of Making Common Sense Common Practice, 5th ed.; of What Tool? When? A Management Guide, 2nd ed.; of Where Do We Start Our Improvement Program?; of Business Fables & Foibles; of A Common Sense Approach to Defect Elimination; and of Our Transplant Journey: A Caregiver’s Story, as well as some 70 journal articles.

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