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Trainer leading a Leading Reliability session
January 2027
Charleston, SC

January Jumpstart

Learn proven strategies from practitioners who’ve led reliability programs, and go back to your plant ready to build trust, drive accountability and lead in a fast-evolving industry.

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Why Attend

Plants are changing faster than ever—AI, new technology, tighter budgets and a shifting workforce. Leading through it—getting buy-in and keeping reliability moving—has never mattered more.

January Jumpstart is a one-day leadership intensive led by practitioners who’ve transformed plant cultures worldwide—and know what’s working now and what’s coming next.

Lead With Confidence

Build the skills to lead people, earn trust and create a culture where your team performs at its best.

Turn Strategy Into Action

Set priorities, clarify roles and build accountability that keeps your plant moving forward.

Solve Problems With Peers

Work through real challenges alongside leaders who face the same pressures at their plants.

Topics We’ll Cover

Building Trust and the Psychology of Leadership

Create an environment where teams surface problems openly and treat failure as part of improvement.

Coaching and Developing Your Team

Grow your people, raise performance and prepare them to take on greater responsibility.

Driving Accountability Without Blame

Clarify expectations with practical RACI frameworks built for managers and floor teams.

Leading Through Change and Uncertainty

Guide teams through new technology rollouts, process upgrades and shifting work habits.

Strategic Thinking and Prioritization

Move from reactive firefighting to proactive risk mitigation and structured decisions.

Communication, Body Language and Influence

Communicate value to win executive backing, secure budgets and build buy-in across the company.

Featured Speakers & Trainers

Learn from leaders who’ve spent decades doing the work, with insights from what’s working at hundreds of organizations.

Lance Haymore
Lance Haymore
Sr. Director, PepsiCo
William Sloan, DBA, CLS, CMRP, CMRT, MLE
William Sloan, DBA, CLS, CMRP, CMRT, MLE
Trainer & Consultant, Eruditio

The One-Day Experience

A structured, high-impact day designed to turn leadership concepts into plant-floor results.

7:30 – 8:00 AM
WELCOME

Check-In, Refreshments & Orienting Objectives

Morning check-in, networking with peers and setting the day’s leadership ground rules.

8:00 – 9:10 AM
SESSION 1

Building Trust and the Psychology of Leadership

Fostering psychological safety, vulnerability and transparent problem identification across plant crews.

9:10 – 10:20 AM
SESSION 2

Turning the Curtain Into an Umbrella

The mental preparation and resolve required to “lead up,” cultivate high-performing teams and stand firm through organizational pushback.

10:20 – 11:30 AM
SESSION 3

Setting Expectations While Leading Change: Driving Accountability

Why buy-in alone doesn’t move every team—and how to match Direct, Coach or Empower to what people need while holding the reliability standard.

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
MIDDAY

Catered Lunch & Leader Roundtable

Included networking lunch with fellow maintenance, engineering and plant leaders.

12:30 – 1:40 PM
SESSION 4

One Team, One Direction: Mentoring the Next Generation

How unexpected leadership opportunities become a catalyst for success, and how intentional teamwork and mentoring build sustainable reliability programs.

1:40 – 2:40 PM
EXERCISE

Interactive Problem-Solving Simulation

Hands-on collaborative simulation testing decision frameworks against live operational constraints and cross-functional friction.

2:40 – 3:50 PM
SESSION 5

Making the Invisible Visible: Telling the Reliability Story

How to show the value of problems that never occurred—translating condition-monitoring data into business stories that shift recognition from firefighting to prevention.

3:50 – 5:00 PM
SESSION 6

Executive Influence & the 30-60-90 Day Action Plan

Speaking the language of the executive suite to unlock maintenance budgets, then drafting your individualized plant execution roadmap.

6:00 PM
EVENING

Charleston Brewery Tour & Tasting

Relax, debrief the day’s insights and build lasting relationships with peers in downtown Charleston.

Reserve Your Seat

Start the year ahead. Seats are limited—secure yours for January Jumpstart today.

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