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Episode 19: 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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Episode 18: Rob Kalwarowsky

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s 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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Episode 17: Will 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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Episode 16: 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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Episode 15: 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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Episode 14: Rick Baldrige

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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Episode 13: David Howard

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader David Howard in Episode 13 of this series. David Howard 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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Episode 12: 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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Episode 11: 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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