One System – One Team | The Future of Leadership and Making Work Meaningful

Technology, pandemics, social and political dynamics and disruptive business models are fundamentally changing the nature of work and the relationships between people and the work we perform. Therefore, as leaders, we are tasked with the combined goals of remaining relevant and competitive, reducing business risk all while navigating the human elements of building environments for meaningful work and continuous improvement.

While nobody really knows what work will look like in 20 years, we do know that leadership strategies will need to change as we understand and connect the roles and relationships of people to these new work dynamics.

In addition, we know that leaders will need to focus on building cultures of continuous improvement through respecting people and the valuable attributes they possess. As part of this new view, leaders will need to focus on building an environment that is characterized by One System – One Team.

 Join Robert Martichenko as he discusses the future leadership and making work meaningful.

 In this session, Robert will outline:

 How advanced technologies are changing the nature of work and working environments.

·    The importance of making work meaningful and the power of focusing on people.

·       What it means to create a business environment that exemplifies One System–One Team.

·       What it will mean for us as leaders in order to achieve the goal of One System – One Team.

·       How to bridge conceptual insights to tangible action items in order to determine, "What will we do with this on Monday morning?"

DISCOVERING HIDDEN PROFIT

The "Amazon effect," and e-commerce are demanding more out of businesses. The pressure to adapt and innovate amidst higher customer expectations has created complexity that we are navigating for the first time, making us feel as if we are all learning for the first time. Yet, in the search for new strategies, one golden nugget lays readily available to us: connecting the core processes of the business in order to break down silos and focus on long-term customer value vs. short-term departmental gains. By generating this value and eliminating waste, companies can drive revenue growth, lower operating costs, improve margins, and reduce resource requirements.

Join Mr. Martichenko as he discusses the next frontier for organizational development in our new world of continuous industry disruption and increased complexity. Based on the newly released book, Discovering Hidden Profit, this presentation details an actionable framework to stay current and profitable by removing organizational masks and connecting people and business processes in order to maximize customer value at the lowest possible total cost.

Robert will discuss:

• Systems thinking: how to view a business from a horizontal, holisitic perspective

• The "perfect order" and the "ten rights:" how to drive leadership dialogue and improvement activities based on connected decision making across the core processes of the business

• Results-based operating principles and management methods: base organizational development strategy around connecting the core processes of business strategy, product life-cycle management, sales and marketing, and supply chain operations (the engine of business performance)

THE POWER OF NARRATIVE LEADERSHIP: CHANGING THE TONE IN WORK AND LIFE WITH POSITIVE STORIES

The stories we hear shape our beliefs. Beliefs shape our leadership styles and the way we perceive the world. Yet at times the tone of these stories feels negative and biased, leading to unproductive social interactions and suboptimal decisions in our organizations. 

We have the power to change the tone of the story to positively re-shape our beliefs, confront unconscious biases, and take a broader, systems viewpoint of our environments. We can change the tone of the story to focus on what matters: the positive events happening in our world. This new narrative can help us become better leaders and make more effective decisions in work and life.

Join Robert Martichenko as he discusses the power of narrative leadership. Building upon his award-winning business books and award-winning novel - Drift and Hum - Robert explores how to:

• Understand the power of story in our lives and connect the art of narrative to business and our leadership effectiveness.
• Gain awareness of unconscious bias and overcome its negative impact by viewing our environments from a systems perspective.
• Leverage the power of narrative leadership in personal reflection to create change.

Let's change the tone to stories that matter.

BUILDING CULTURES OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Amidst all the disruption in business today, one commonality exists in progressive organizations: they are working to create corporate cultures of continuous improvement. It can be argued that a business's culture of continuous improvement is necessary for meaningful, holisitic business results - and ultimately survival.

For those who build these corporate cultures with people and processes, this work can be very rewarding while challenging at the same time.

But how do you do it?

One certainty is this: building cultures of continuous improvement is an evolution and never-ending search for opportunities.

Join Robert Martichenko as he discusses his lessons learned while implementing and practicing lean thinking across many industries and organizations.

In this thought provoking and engaging keynote, Robert will share:

1. Leadership techniques and strategies to successfully engage teams and create a high-performance organization

2. The progression and maturing process of building continuous improvement cultures

3. An action plan to immediately identify quick wins and long-term improvements by recognizing opportunities within the business holistically

Robert speaks globally on relevant topics and lessons learned from over 25 years of transforming end-to-end supply chains and organizations at large. Weaving in themes of "business disruption," "systems thinking," "respect for people," and "personal narratives," Robert leaves his audiences supercharged and ready to improve their organizations and personal journeys.

Robert is the Founder and CEO of LeanCor Supply Chain Group, and Chairman of Karmack Publications. He is also an entrepreneur, thought leader in lean management, professional education instructor, business author, poet, and novelist. He is a board advisor for a private company and volunteers for universities focused on supply chain and leadership.

Robert has written several business books and one novel – most recently, Discovering Hidden Profit (Karmack Publications). His others include two Shingo Research award-winning books: People: a leader's day to day guide to building, managing, and sustaining lean organizations (Karmack Publications) and Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream (Lean Enterprise Institute). Additionally, Robert is the author of Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade (Karmack Publications) and Lean Six Sigma Logistics (J. Ross Publishing). His debut novel, Drift and Hum (Karmack Publications), has won multiple awards including the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Winner Award for Best First Book-Fiction. He has also written two children's books, It's Perfect Being Me and A Day Well Spent.

He is a recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), a "Pro to Know" by Supply & Demand Chain Executive, a 2014 "Rainmaker" by DC Velocity, and a 2015 C-Suite honoree by Venue & LEAD Magazine.

Robert complements his professional experience with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics, an MBA in Finance, and a Six Sigma Black Belt.Born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, Robert and his family have lived in the United States for the past two decades.