The Leadership Connection™

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®.

Episodes

October 2, 2023 38 mins

Life Cycle Engineering's Peter Thomas joins guest host Tara Holwegner in a discussion about dedication, major life changes and grit. A U.S. Navy veteran, Peter recalls days at the bottom of his rank, cleaning toilets and how a change in perspective from his superior switched his mindset to leading his very own rank. Tara and Peter talk what company moral really means and the importance of listening. 

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In this episode, Vice President Life Cycle Engineering, Bambi Hoyt from joins guest host Tara Holwegner in a discussion about personal triumphs and failures that made them the leaders they are today.

In Bambi’s 14 years with LCE, she has seen it all – leading key growth initiatives, including managing and executing IT and technical programs for the U.S. Navy, DISA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine...

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Since 1976, Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) has provided engineering solutions that deliver lasting results for private industry, public entities, government organizations and the U.S. military.

Bob Fei's mission is to enable people and organizations to achieve their full potential. As a husband and father this mission applies to his wife, kids, church and community. As a professional services organization this same mission is focused...

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Limuel Sagadraca is the Vice President of the Reliability Consulting Group of Life Cycle Engineering (LCE). He is a seasoned senior management professional with over 25 years of manufacturing experience. Limuel is an industry thought leader on enterprise applications, supply chain optimization, and manufacturing integration. He has led Industry 4.0 digital transformation initiatives, creation on IoT strategy, leading transformation...

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President of MotorDoc LLC, a Veteran Owned Small Business, 2017-18 Chair of the Society for Maintenance Professionals (SMRP). Performing reliability and maintenance consulting, program development, industrial assessments, motor management consulting, machine forensics, motor diagnostics training, technical web development, and technical/business publishing. Specialties include motor diagnostics, training, electrical insulation syst...

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Mr. John Reeve is a CMMS Champion. With 21,000 followers on LinkedIn, he regularly shares knowledge on many topics, especially in asset management. Being the 2nd consultant hired by the company that invented Maximo, he spent the first 10 years consulting in project management consulting followed by 20 years on asset management with emphasis on Maximo software. During this time, he was issued a US Patent for maintenance s...

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Nancy Regan has had a love affair (professionally speaking) with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) for the last 2 decades. She believes that it is one of the most majestic asset management processes on the planet. She's been at it for 20 years now and there’s nothing she would rather do.

It all started on an ordinary day in September 1997 when she was an intern at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Lakehurst, New Jersey. On ...

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Matt Stegmiller is currently a Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer at Marathon Petroleum. He has a varied background that includes manufacturing, consulting, project management, power production, forensic engineering, and rotating equipment.

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Andy Page has more than 28 years of experience in the fields of maintenance and reliability, with deep asset management experience attained through designing, teaching, and improving the reliability of manufacturing and processing plants throughout the United States and Europe. 

He has worked with companies across several industry verticals, namely food processing, chemical processing, pulp & paper, and pharmaceuticals. A...

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Mr. Latino is an internationally recognized author, trainer, software developer, lecturer and practitioner of best practices in the field of Reliability Engineering and specifically in Root Cause Analysis & Investigation Management. When an expensive machine breaks down, most companies just fix it without understanding why it broke. Bob shows companies how to reveal Root Causes of complex incidents so they can save million...

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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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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 ...

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Suzane Greeman is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions, a firm headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a senior asset management consultant and instructor in North America working with clients who manage assets in excess of $75 Billion. She has over 23 years of experience across several asset management disciplines and has implemented asset management strategies for cement m...

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Rob Kalwarowsky has spent almost 10 years as a reliability engineer & asset manager within mining, oil pipelines, and consulting in heavy industry. Over that time, he has seen and experienced disengagement, frustration & mental health problems due to fear-based leadership. Since learning about people-centric leadership, Rob has been on a mission to spread the...

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Eng. Shami Mudunkotuwa is a product of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa (UoM), Sri Lanka and a Chartered Engineer currently working for Ceylon Electricity Board.  He carries a great exposure, experience and special interest in Infrared Thermography (IRT) Techniques for Predictive Maintenance and Building Services alike. To date, he is the most experienced Level III Certified Infrared Thermograph...

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George Mahoney is currently acting as the Program Manager and Process Optimization Lead for the Source to Settle Organization at Merck.

While George has had various roles at Merck, his true passions are Process Simplification and Defect Elimination. He has used these passions as the foundation of his work in Maintenance, Reliability, Environmental Sustainability, and Facilities Management.

 

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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 ...

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Jason Tranter is the founder and CEO of Mobius Institute. Jason is the author of the majority of the Mobius Institute training courses and e-learning products covering reliability improvement, condition monitoring, and precision maintenance topics. Over 35,000 people (as of 2020) have been formally...

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Based in Rochester, New York, 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.  She has served as Global Chief Diversity Officer at Atos for 5 years...

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Highly accomplished and motivated Reliability, Maintenance, Process, and Project Professional with years of experience in Pharmaceutical, Automotive, and Food and Beverage Operations. My 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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