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Lasting reliability improvement depends on your ability to build trust, develop people, create accountability, lead through change, and gain organizational buy-in.
The Autumn Accelerator is a one-day leadership intensive built specifically for maintenance and reliability professionals, led by experts who've transformed organizations – and reliability cultures – worldwide.
Build the skills to lead people, earn trust, and create a culture where teams can perform at their highest potential.
Set priorities, clarify responsibilities, and create structured accountability that keeps your plant moving forward.
Spend the day with maintenance and reliability peers facing the exact same organizational, cultural, and executive challenges.
Create an environment where teams can address problems, recognizing that reliability work involves admitting failures and allowing failure as part of process development.
Focus on helping leaders grow their people, improve performance, and take on greater responsibility.
Highlight key maintenance culture elements and clarify expectations with actionable RACI frameworks tailored for managers and floor teams.
Guide teams smoothly through the friction of new technology rollouts, process upgrades, and evolving working habits.
Shift permanently from firefighting reactive mode to proactive risk mitigation and structured decision-making.
Communicate value with clarity to win executive backing, secure necessary maintenance budgets, and build company-wide buy-in.
Learn from Practitioners Who've Done the Work.
Founder, Eruditio
N.C. State engineering graduate. Has led reliability and maintenance improvement work in pharmaceuticals, metals, petrochemical, paper, and power generation.
Past Chairman of SMRP and former SMRP Director of Education. CMRP, CAMA, and change-management certified through Prosci and Colorado State. Works with TPM, RCM, RCA, Lean, and Six Sigma, and with the leadership side of getting those practices in place.
Principal Trainer and Consultant, Eruditio
Purdue aerospace engineering graduate. Retired Captain of Marines. CMRP, Reliability Engineering Certification from Clemson, ISO Category II Vibration Analyst.
Has worked in oil and gas, steel, and as a maintenance manager, then in predictive technology services. Now trains and consults on reliability engineering, planning, leadership, and building the people and processes behind a reliability program.
One focused, high-impact day designed to turn leadership concepts into plant-floor results.
Registration, name badge pickup, and casual networking.
Setting workshop objectives, personal goals, and leadership ground rules.
Fostering psychological safety, vulnerability, and transparent problem identification.
Mentoring technicians and supervisors to step up, take ownership, and lead.
Constructive expectations, RACI alignment, and root-cause accountability.
Included networking lunch with fellow maintenance and asset leaders.
Overcoming cultural resistance to new technologies, workflows, and reliability systems.
Hands-on simulation addressing real-world operational challenges.
Escaping reactive firefighting through proactive risk assessment and focus.
Speaking the language of the executive suite to unlock necessary budgets.
Drafting your personal 30-60-90 day plant execution roadmap.
Relax, unwind, and build lasting relationships with peers in Charleston.
October 20, 2026 | Charleston, SC
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