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Joel Leonard has traveled the globe to elevate workforce
performance. Over the last two years, he has helped support
the growth and expansion of the 11-county region surrounding
Fort Bragg by coaching the eight local community college
presidents. Joel introduced numerous workshops, new industry
certifications and technologies into that region. Most
notably, Goodyear reports that by attending his classes, the
company has saved more than $800,000 by conserving energy
costs.
The average age of hundreds of thousands of maintenance people
across the globe is 48. Members of the boomer generation
have started to retire, leaving empty maintenance positions
unfilled. Companies are facing a challenge in finding
qualified workers to fill these vacancies. With no one to
fix broken pipes, frayed wires, aging equipment, and few who
understand how to support modern automation technologies,
nations are finding themselves in what Joel Leonard has
coined, “The Maintenance Crisis.”
A former vice-president of the Association for Facilities
Engineering, Joel is taking the lead internationally in
identifying, explaining and helping to solve the problem.
His creative strategies to build awareness have included
holding job fairs specific to the maintenance industry. As a
result of his efforts, Joel was appointed to the United
States Council on Competitiveness, a national think-tank
whose purpose is to work with legislators and the White
House to inform policy decisions that lead to effective
strategies for economic development. Internationally,
corporate and governmental leaders are seeking Joel’s
advice, He has been interviewed on National Public Radio and
CNBC.
Working with Chicago-based Putman Media, Inc., a publisher of nine
trade magazines, Joel has been a contributing columnist for
Plant Services Magazine since 2004. The 140,000 readers have
followed his work onto the Internet, where, in 2007, Joel
founded SkillTV.net, the first on-line television network
dedicated to helping build awareness of and offering
solutions to the “Maintenance Crisis.” Programming includes
interviews with congressional leaders, Fortune 500 CEOs,
educators, engineers and maintenance technicians in the US,
Canada and abroad.
In 2008, Joel received the Gold Award for his column in Plant
Services Magazine from the American Society of Business
Publications Editors. He writes for MaintWorld Magazine out
of Helsinki, Finland and contributes regularly to the
Strategic Asset Management Newsletter out of Australia.
Joel has often presented at and been the keynote speaker at
national and international conventions since 1998. In 2008,
he was the first American to deliver the opening address at
the Euro Maintenance Conference in Belgium, a meeting
attended by governmental and corporate leaders from 51
nations. He was the first American Chairman of the Middle
East Maintenance Managers Conference in Dubai in 2008. His
songs, “The Maintenance Crisis” and “Find Me a Maintenance
Woman,” have been played on National Public Radio and
downloaded more than 300,000 times. They are often played at
major conventions.
Contact:
Joel Leonard
www.SkillTV.net
Phone: 336-338-1011
E-mail:
joel@skilltv.net
