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AUTUMN ACCELERATOR

The One-Day Reliability Leadership Workshop

October 20, 2026 | Charleston, SC
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Technical Knowledge Only Gets You So Far

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.

Why Attend

Strengthen Your Leadership

Build the skills to lead people, earn trust, and create a culture where teams can perform at their highest potential.

Turn Strategy Into Action

Set priorities, clarify responsibilities, and create structured accountability that keeps your plant moving forward.

Learn With Other Leaders

Spend the day with maintenance and reliability peers facing the exact same organizational, cultural, and executive challenges.

Topics We'll Cover

  • Building Trust and the Psychology of Leadership

    Create an environment where teams can address problems, recognizing that reliability work involves admitting failures and allowing failure as part of process development.

  • Coaching and Developing Your Team

    Focus on helping leaders grow their people, improve performance, and take on greater responsibility.

  • Driving Accountability Without Blame

    Highlight key maintenance culture elements and clarify expectations with actionable RACI frameworks tailored for managers and floor teams.

  • Leading Through Change and Uncertainty

    Guide teams smoothly through the friction of new technology rollouts, process upgrades, and evolving working habits.

  • Strategic Thinking and Prioritization

    Shift permanently from firefighting reactive mode to proactive risk mitigation and structured decision-making.

  • Communication, Body Language, and Influence Up and Across

    Communicate value with clarity to win executive backing, secure necessary maintenance budgets, and build company-wide buy-in.

Leading Reliability - Strategy, Leadership, Teamwork, Innovation, Planning

Meet Your Speakers & Trainers

Learn from Practitioners Who've Done the Work.

Shon Isenhour, CMRP, CAMA

Shon Isenhour, CMRP, CAMA

Founder, Eruditio

Leading 9:15 AM & 4:00 PM Sessions

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.

Brian Hronchek, CMRP

Brian Hronchek, CMRP

Principal Trainer and Consultant, Eruditio

Leading 1:15 PM Session

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.

Additional speakers TBA.

Workshop Agenda

One focused, high-impact day designed to turn leadership concepts into plant-floor results.

8:00

Check-In & Morning Refreshments

Registration, name badge pickup, and casual networking.

Arrival
8:30

SESSIONIntroductions and Overview

Setting workshop objectives, personal goals, and leadership ground rules.

Workshop Session
9:15

SESSIONBuilding Trust and the Psychology of Leadership

Fostering psychological safety, vulnerability, and transparent problem identification.

Led by speaker Shon Isenhour
Workshop Session
10:15 Break
15 Minutes
10:30

SESSIONCoaching and Developing Your Team

Mentoring technicians and supervisors to step up, take ownership, and lead.

Workshop Session
11:30

SESSIONDriving Accountability Without Blame

Constructive expectations, RACI alignment, and root-cause accountability.

Workshop Session
12:15

Catered Lunch

Included networking lunch with fellow maintenance and asset leaders.

Included
1:15

SESSIONLeading Through Change and Uncertainty

Overcoming cultural resistance to new technologies, workflows, and reliability systems.

Led by speaker Brian Hronchek
Workshop Session
2:15 Break
15 Minutes
2:30

SESSIONInteractive Group Activity

Hands-on simulation addressing real-world operational challenges.

Interactive Exercise
3:15

SESSIONStrategic Thinking and Prioritization

Escaping reactive firefighting through proactive risk assessment and focus.

Workshop Session
4:00

SESSIONCommunication, Body Language, and Influence Up and Across

Speaking the language of the executive suite to unlock necessary budgets.

Led by speaker Shon Isenhour
Workshop Session
4:30

SESSIONAction Plan and Close

Drafting your personal 30-60-90 day plant execution roadmap.

Wrap-Up
5:00

Brewery Tour and Tasting

Relax, unwind, and build lasting relationships with peers in Charleston.

Social Event

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October 20, 2026 | Charleston, SC

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