Avet Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Avet provides high quality generic medicines that help patients and practitioners achieve affordable healthcare solutions. Our global supply chain network is built around centers of manufacturing and scientific excellence to provide you with the highest level of quality, safety, value and service in generics.

Head of Supply Chain

#EverydayLeaders Interview Series

What's the Most Effective Leadership Tool?

Brady Pyle had great advice...

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I often tell leaders that your most powerful leadership tool is a mirror

You need to start by knowing yourself, your strengths and weaknesses

I like to surround myself with people who are different from me in a variety of ways--how they grew up, personality and communication style, and leadership strengths

I also regularly seek customer feedback about the performance of my team members

Brady Pyle

Bill Castengera had this bit of advice to new and emerging #leaders:

It is easy to get caught up in tasks, but people want leaders who slow down, listen to concerns and take actions that address those concerns.

The question of whether we should push our employees or pull our employees can be a tough one.

Have high standards. If you lead correctly, your employees will want to do their best to match or exceed those standards.

Bill Castengera

1906

Nuka Foods is a privately held firm that manufactures the highest quality cannabis-based tablets.  Its 1906 brand of plant-based tablet and chocolate experiences are market leaders in this emerging industry.

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Oversight of supply from seven strategic internal manufacturing sites focused on the North American markets.  Program manager for a transformational shift focused on fixing foundations and inventory optimization with 11 initiatives incorporated within.

Director, Supply Planning

Change Management Lead for an SAP Implementation.  For this long-term project, I have responsibility for project communications, stakeholder engagement, business process change impact, change readiness, organizational alignment and training for a more than 10,000 end user base.

Director, Organizational Change Management

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (Teva) is a global pharmaceutical and drug company. It develops, produces and markets generic drugs in all treatment categories.

Director, Supply Chain Planning

Teva Animal Health, Inc. is engaged in the research, development and manufacture of veterinary pharmaceutical products for North America and the worldwide animal health community. Teva Animal Health is the largest US manufacturer of generic pharmaceutical formulations for the animal health market, and our proprietary brand line, DVM Pharmaceuticals, leads the industry in the development of companion animal dermatological products and nutraceuticals.

Director, Supply Chain

RPI Lally School of Management

Member of external advisory board for the Master of Supply Chain Management program at the Lally School of Management.

Located in the heart of Upstate New York's Tech Valley, the Lally School of Management is the business school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. We develop aspiring business leaders who have a passion for innovation with the ability to work across business functions.

Supply Chain Advisory Board Member

The Refractive Thinker

The Refractive Thinker is a new, innovative outlet for doctoral scholars who want to publish their research. It is unique because it meets the critical standards of peer-reviewed literature while still appealing to readers outside of the world of academia. 

Vol. VIII: Effective Business Practices for Motivation and Communication
Ch 4: Five Steps to Navigating the Social Exchange Perspective Landscape

Download at no cost at:  http://goo.gl/wpnKbu

Contributing Author

Hospira

Manager, Capacity Planning and Project Management

Hospira is a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company driven by its vision of Advancing Wellness™. Bringing proven leadership and experience, Hospira provides solutions to help improve the productivity, safety and effectiveness of patient care.

Supply Chain | Capacity Planning Manager

Section Manager, International Deployment

Supply Chain | International Deployment

Systems Analyst, Centralized Materials Management Group

Supply Chain | Systems Analyst

Supply Chain | Materials Manager

Supply Chain | Section Manager, SVP Finishing

Supply Chain | Section Manager, Materials Management

Supply Chain | Material Control Supervisor

Section Supervisor, Materials Management, Large Volume Parenterals

Supply Chain | Section Supervisor, Materials Management, LVP

Manufacturing Supervisor, Propofol Filling

Supply Chain | Manufacturing Supervisor, Propofol Filling

Supply Chain | Manufacturing Supervisor, Actiq

Corning Incorporated

Corning Optical Fiber, part of Corning’s Telecommunications segment, invented the first low-loss optical fiber in 1970 and today remains the worldwide market leader, offering a full line of single-mode and multimode optical fibers for all network applications.

Positions Held:
New Technology Receiver (Project Engineer / Production Management)
Shift Supervisor

Production Engineering and Manufacturing Supervision

GE Silicones

GE Silicones, Inc. offers specialty silicones, such as silicone surfactants, emulsions, catalysts, organomodified, and reactive fluids. It serves personal and household care, coatings, paints and inks, crop protection, textiles, oil and gas, paper, food and beverage, tissue and nonwovens, automotive, furniture and bedding, appliances, and shoes markets.

Process Safety Analyst

I profile the extraordinary work being done by #EverydayLeaders. Leaders from the front lines of industry

WHAT I DO: 

I’m on a quest to profile the extraordinary work being done by #EverydayLeaders.  Leaders from the front lines of industry.   

HOW I DO IT:  

I start genuine conversations with real people.  We discuss what it takes to lead people in the real world.  And I help them share or develop their wisdom. 

Over the last two years, I’ve interviewed and profiled dozens of people and published their stories in Volume 1 of the Everyday Leaders Series.  Here are few examples:

➡️ Kerry Wekelo on listening to your teams —  https://goo.gl/BgU8Ma 
➡️ Ross Wirth on asking the right questions — https://goo.gl/zKjf9H
➡️ John Reagan on the art of teamwork — https://goo.gl/UPRcGn

I also help Emerging Leaders discover their innate brilliance. We use a time tested framework to align your desires and preferences with your those of your peers, teams, managers, and organization. No tricks, no secret formulas.  But the techniques are so simple my 4-year-old could do it.

CURIOUS TO KNOW MORE?  

Let’s connect and see how we may help each other.

Dr. Ernest Jones

Ursa Major

To address a critical shortfall in the U.S. industrial base and bring a new model to aerospace and defense systems, I design and manufacture the world’s leading propulsion systems for space, hypersonic applications, and missile systems. 

- Spearhead Aerospace & Defense Lean Manufacturing transformative and strategic initiatives optimizing productivity while eliminating costly waste streams.
- Own engine-level manufacturing. 
- Directly support manufacturing development efforts in multiple technical areas across disciplines including combustion devices, turbomachinery, components, and avionics. 
- Establish and communicate design for manufacturing principles in a collaborative role with the design engineering group 
- Champion early development hardware to enable aggressive development engine programs, committing a hands-on role to first builds 
- Support critical production needs for scaling, cost reduction, yield/quality related issues  
- Lead strategic insourcing efforts across the manufacturing landscape 
- Develop, publish, and maintain manufacturing and process specifications 
- Troubleshoot engine and component hardware issues in the field, develop solutions with the Ursa team and customer, and lead implementation 
- Identify and implement engine improvements focused on customer needs, risk reduction, and end-use 
- Travel to customer sites to support field services

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Danfoss

Spearhead and support all Danfoss Power Solutions corporate efforts requiring Continuous Improvement Expertise while acting as a consultant to manufacturing, supply chain, engineering and quality department managers.

Attain and own tangible results in terms of optimizing quality, delivery, cost, and cash flow by ensuring an efficient value chain.

Directly responsible for:
•	Ambitiously leading facility and operations start up efforts primed for rapid scaling of manufacturing capacity.
•	Optimizing facility labor & resource capacity planning:
      o	Equipment and labor hours workflow balance.
•	Creating an efficient training program improving visibility on, and analysis of, our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT).
•	Securing performance in the plant regarding Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
•	Modeling strategic thinking and technical know-how by way of hands-on leadership and expertise.
•	Developing, implementing and managing manufacturing layouts and workflows to achieve Operational Excellence. 
•	Validating appropriate applications of a wide variety of business improvement tools within the Danfoss Business Systems toolkit; maximizing synergies and reducing cost through waste reduction, inventory management and improvement of flow.
•	Driving and improving results by leveraging lean tools, consulting skills, and change management processes.
•	Creating long term activity roadmaps and lean transformation projects for our factories including Kaizen and step change projects. 
•	Fostering creativity, innovation, and a broader perspective in decision-making while positively influencing our immediate professional surroundings.

Continuous Improvement Expert

Senior Director of Operations

Director of Operations

Operations Manager

KBI Biopharma

Supply Chain Manager

MATHESON

Production Manager

Abound Solar

Thin film, photovoltaic technology.  Manufactured and tested Cadmium Telluride solar panels.

Engineering Specialist

United States Marine Corps

MAWTS-1: Orchestrated the operational integration of the six functions of Marine Corps Aviation (Air Reconnaissance, Anti-Air Warfare, Assault Support, Control of Aircraft and Missiles, Electronic Warfare and Offensive Air Support) in support of a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF). 

Implemented standardized advanced tactical training and certifications of unit instructor qualifications to support Marine aviation training readiness; developed and launched aviation weapons and tactics.

Aviation Weapons and Tactics Instructor

Twenty years of proven and vetted experience leading Marines, Manufacturing Operations Subject Matter Experts and Directors.  I excel in:

•Building, developing and mentoring powerhouse teams from scratch.
•Spearheading Six Sigma / Lean Manufacturing projects.
•Stage Gate Methodology Production Operations.
•Leading by example in the realm of Agile Manufacturing.
•Developing and driving Manufacturing Operations Value Stream Maps.
•Modeling the Servant Leadership mentality.
•Rolling up my sleeves, turning wrenches, making electrical connections and filling gaps where needed.

In addition, my passion for studying the universal principles of Leadership has led me to mentor my peers and team members via the “Leaders Eat Last” philosophy.

"So goes the leader, so goes the culture."

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