Featured Speaker. Karen Schultz

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1 Karen Schultz Featured Speaker MA, AIP (Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner), Business Developer, WALCO Tool & Engineering An entrepreneur Karen wanted to pay for her education while she learned, Karen Schultz received her associates degree in art and special education while researching, Why Art is Fundamental to Learning, and the Innovative Edge and Health of our Country. She pursued her interests in business with a focus on organizational behavior and development, while working with behavior disorder students in K-8. Her students taught her about the importance of being happy and its effects on your circle of influence. She found herself being pursued by a small manufacturer, WALCO Tool & Engineering, to diversify their portfolio. Background Karen received her associates degree in art and special education while researching, Why Art is Fundamental to Learning, and the Innovative Edge and Health of our Country. She attended to earning a Master s Degree full time, while working full time, to hope to inspire her work community of the power of education, their voice and its influence on the sustainability of their career and work community DCMME/GSCMI Fall Operations Conference on Sustainability

2 Building Sustainable Supply Karen Schultz Business Developer, WALCO Tool & Engineering Researcher, Building Sustainable Partnerships Between Rural and Corporate America

3 NOTES: Sustainable Development Criteria for WALCO Tool & Engineering External Teams

4 WALCO Tool & Engineering A Flat, Responsive, Agile, Educated, Skilled Workforce Diversification of portfolio People with a diverse background who make us whole Different strengths Different backgrounds Enjoy collaboration, are confident enough not to be defensive or offensive People who are focused on personal investment People who are passionate about making stuff People who take their citizenship seriously People who are creative People who understand the importance of responsiveness, agility and why we are in business

5 What defines the sustainability of a business? Is it a building?

6 People? Their titles, roles, levels of success in the hierarchy, pay scales, regulations, handbooks, structure or lack of, profitability?

7 Diagrams, Measurements, Hierarchal titles, Job Descriptions, Cultural Systems? Conservation Science Institute

8 Global Balance of Resources? Minerals Gas Oil Metals Water Weather Regional Environment

9 Karen s definition A shared vision that people are and driven about fulfilling It is about stories behind the people It is about realizing each other s strengths Its about individual life missions Its about writing a new story, drawing up the outline and seeing it through to the end People who are in it, one for all and all for one --with a whatever it takes attitude With a long term vision With the realization that there is someone who needs them to do what they do well while staying able to reinvest, grow and stay focused on those who need results

10 Definitions of Sustainability Different to each individual

11 But understanding how sustainability works. its just common sense! Define Common Sense

12 Definition: Decide What to Learn About Sustainability Together as a Seamless Team Delivery: Sustaining the Change Discovery: Opportunity Context Positive Core Sustainability Design: Finding innovative ways to create that future; Breakthrough propositions Dream: Envisioning what might be; shared images for a preferred future 12

13 SOAR vs. SWOT % of time you spend measuring what went wrong vs. what went great and where else to implement it! What you focus on is what you get! Rule of Attraction

14 Flow Chart of RELATIONSHIPS passionate, driven Supplier A Supplier F Supplier G Supplier B Supplier E Shared Vision Delivers Quality Service and Product Supplier C Supplier D Satisfied Customer

15 Relationships / Seamless Teams Generally what happens in a business hierarchy Generally what happens when someone is procuring a product or service Generally what happens with team building process Generally what happens with relationships in business WHY is sustainability difficult?

16 What happens when you build a relationship?

17 Sustainability is not new it s as old as life itself and its ability to respond, stay agile and survive The relationship of any living system Food / Proper balanced nutrition Water / Liquids that bring nutrition Compatibility / Environment = Spirituallly, mentally, physically Sun / Light Death and renewal Interdisciplinary system structures of give, take, interactive change

18 If sustainability has been around since the beginning of time Why are we still struggling with it?

19 S Will sustainability be something you take the time to understand long term About your educationyour career Your health Your work community Your family Your neighbors Your schools and community Your work community Your vision for self, for others you affect

20 YOU Are the generation with a shared vision focused on sustainability WILL YOU, as young energetic MBAs and passionate PhD researchers UNDERSTAND THAT BALANCE with SUSTAINABILITY in mind is healthy long term

21 WE the generations before you and after you COUNT ON your GENERATION

22 Thank you, Karen! You made whole the pieces of the puzzle! DCMME/GSCMI Fall Operations Conference on Sustainability

23 Q & A Brandon Pitcher Chief Sustainability Officer, 5 Kingdoms Development, LLC. Karen Schultz MA, AIP (Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner), Business Developer for WALCO Tool & Engineering DCMME/GSCMI Fall Operations Conference on Sustainability

24 The Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises & the Global Supply Chain Management Initiative Sustainability October 5, 2012 Purdue University Krannert Center Partners and Event Sponsors