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Transformational Performance Solutions, LLC, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the only leadership and reliability consulting firm led by an authentic and transformational leader and true maintenance and reliability professional. Using over 40 years of hands-on experience, Dr. Nathan Wright has physically worked in all key positions within industry. He has led a team in war time and peace to include some of the most iconic companies on the planet. He will help your organization achieve peak performance through practical leadership, personally proven proactive maintenance strategies, and skilled trade mentorship alongside your plant floor team.

Dr. Wright Focuses On

  • Leadership development
  • Reliability assessments
  • Proactive reliability program design
  • Lubrication program engineering and design
  • PM optimization
  • Workflow management
  • Program and skills assessment
  • Root cause problem elimination
  • Storeroom maximization
  • Skilled trades development

And other best practices.

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Proactive Reliability Programs

  • Leadership is the foundation for all other efforts. Benchmarking, mentoring, and measuring your organization’s leaders is key to your success.
  • Experience in successfully transforming companies in the heavy equipment, forestry products, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, and defense industries.
  • Ability to manage Maintenance and Reliability Engineering programs, including programs focused on safety and design for reliability.
  • Use of a true reliability design which goes beyond root cause analysis and focuses on preventing failures.
  • Building “next practices” that significantly increase the reliability of multi-million-dollar systems to the benefit of client and company alike, instead of copying “best practices” from others.
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Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

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Nathan’s Transformational Approach

Nathan has enjoyed an impressive career working for some of the nation’s leading defense, forestry, mining, manufacturing, and food and beverage corporations.

And while he was passionately involved in leading teams and organizations, he began to work with corporate training programs and lecture series that did little to develop effective leadership skills.

Analyzing the ways in which professionals learn and apply leadership skills, Nathan developed a transformational approach that is vastly different from the transactional methods typically used.

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I have known Nathan professionally for more than ten years. He has a unique combination of journeyman skills and advanced education that is extremely rare and valuable. Many of today’s business leaders don’t fully understand the value that great, consistent reliability can bring to the success of a business. And they certainly do not properly value the experience and talent a skilled craftsperson brings in gaining reliability. I especially liked Nathan’s take on Transformational Leadership—empowering great people to perform and reach their full potential. They motivate and support their leadership teams, are positive thinkers, create inspirational vision that drives motivation into their teams. Leaders should understand the connection between hands-on experience, matched with strong leadership, and the value great leadership brings to a business.
Steve HolmesChief Operating Officer First Majestic Silver Corporation
For over 25 years, as Co-founder and CEO of Quma Learning Systems, Inc., I have had the privilege of observing and working with hundreds of exceptional leaders and specialists in a broad spectrum of business disciplines. My association with Dr. Nathan Wright has been one of the highlights of that experience. Dr. Wright has a unique grasp of the realities of the business world and the often-perplexing challenges associated with focusing and channeling the energies of leaders, managers and workers within an organization. He has gained his insights from his extensive background in manufacturing, mining, and consumer products, giving him the ability to see the dynamic balance between the policy and process issues of an organization and the people issues that make or break implementation and execution.
Dr. Dennis R DeatonCo-founder and CEO, Quma Learning Systems Inc.
I have had the privilege of working with Nathan at 3 different companies. All were in mining and wanted to have a reliability-based maintenance program. Nathan is a back to basic type of leader. He knows that to build a good program you start at the bottom and build a good base. That starts with employees. He says you need people that have the skills whether it's planners, journeyman, and apprentices. Nathan also believed that you must have buy-in from operations and management. Without it you cannot make things happen. I have personally seen his program work and decrease the cost of maintenance and increase safety and retention of workers. If I had the chance, I would work on another project with Nathan.
Bill ColeElectrical Supervisor, Kinross Gold Corporation, Round Mountain, Nevada
Dr. Nathan Wright’s approach could be the missing piece needed to complete the leadership puzzle and bring about the increase in plant profitability that today’s engineers and managers are looking for. Dr. Wright is correct in his analysis of the challenges manufacturing facilities face regarding leadership, and industry is indeed in a very dire position and needs to act quickly before it is buried beneath its own mistakes. Before Nathan led the maintenance team at the plant where I was working, maintenance was mostly reactive and poorly organized. Within a few weeks, he had begun to introduce the ideas he expands upon in his book which brought the plant uptimes which had not previously been thought possible. It was clear that his rich background in maintenance, reliability and leadership was a huge advantage to any organization.
Larry WiskirchenReliability Professional, Vibration analyst, ISO Cat. IV, Kraft Foods
For almost 40 years I've been involved in the processing and manufacturing fields in various roles and have seen how the maintenance structure can either set up a company for success or failure. Nathan Wright's no-nonsense approach to building maintenance systems gives you the tools needed to operate as a world class department. Follow his sound principles based on his extensive experience and you too can take your organization to the next level.
Jeff RushingMaintenance Manager, Kraft Foods
Dr. Nathan Wright’s approach has been refined through years of experience. He is a hands-on professional with tremendous technical and leadership skills and this makes him a valued partner for anyone involved in maintenance, engineering, and management. It is this combination of effort, led by one of the top professionals, that will make a tremendous impact on overall productivity. He warns those looking to take this easy path that they are about to miss many opportunities, and these misses create a risk to their efforts. His approach is a simple straightforward one, designed for anyone to understand. Don't be reactive and stop missing out on the last true competitive advantage!
Dale A. SmithCertified Lubrication Specialist, Schaeffer Manufacturing Company
My fellowship with Dr. Nathan Wright has been one of the highlights of my 40 years of experience. His extensive background gives him the ability to see the balance between the process issues of an organization and the people challenges that make-or-break implementation and execution of any change effort. As a teacher of leadership skills, he brings the hands-on experience of having turned around ineffective teams by developing both the skill set and the mindset of leadership in those he has coached and mentored. He has a no-nonsense approach to development, which stems from a keen awareness of what people need to know and do … to achieve the outcomes demanded in today’s global economy.
Mark ChristensenFounder and CEO, Learning Point, Inc.
Nathan Wright's approach to maintenance and reliability is inspiring! He describes that it is the implementation of basic concepts through your people, in your plant, is the key.
Tor IdhammerCEO and President, IDCON, INC.
We have had the privilege of working with Dr. Nathan Wright in regard to maintenance, and reliability and appreciate his step-by-step guidance and leadership. His programs have been user friendly and robust, and our entire maintenance and production teams have relied heavily on the information we have implemented for greater performance, reliability, and decision making. I’m confident a company can achieve a significant return on investment (ROI) if you follow the certification program the right way and involve as many applicable associates as possible in the process.
Lou Rotella IIIJD., Chief Operating Officer, Rotella's Italian Bakery
I was fortunate enough to be able to work for Nate multiple times. Nate was an incredible mentor to me. As a young man aspiring to be an engineer, I cannot thank Nate enough for what he has taught me. I witnessed Nate develop programs and processes that not only benefited equipment and the company, but also the employees. With great leadership skills, experience, knowledge, and certifications; Nate is a man that pushes to accomplish goals which involve everyone around him. Not everything is taught in the classroom, the rest is something that comes from years of experience and hands on work. Many lessons from Nate will be carried on and hopefully implemented wherever I end up. I can thank Nate for playing such a huge role in shaping how I look and think about reliability.
Antonio DiFrancoMechanical Engineering Student, University of Cincinnati
I have worked with Dr. Wright for many years. His knowledge of maintenance best practices, techniques, and organization structure is phenomenal. Nathan has a thoughtful and practical approach when providing direction to leadership which follows the structure outlined in his book The Death of Reliability. In my 30 years in heavy industry in management, engineering, operations, and executive leadership, Nathan stands above the crowd in Reliability and Leadership.
Jon PierceVice President, Corrugated Supply Company
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Transformational Performance Solutions, LLC excels in improving organizational performance through leadership and people development, maintenance, reliability, executive coaching, strategic planning, and facilitation.

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