Joel Leonard Email & Phone Number

Asheboro, North Carolina, United States

Mission to provide Career Exploration to Manufacturing & Technology Job Opportunities MakesboroUSA.comHelping support the Maker movement by visiting spaces around the country.Thus far met with over 100 Makerspaces, supported 22 Maker Faires and traveled over 48,000 miles, and 40 states. Planning Oregon Maker Trail in preparation for Nomcon2020.

Conover, Nc

STEM, Makerspace, industrial workforce development, retention, recruitment services. Currently supporting Newton Conover Middle STEM School quest to provide better educational experiences for students.

Piedmont Triad Region

Help promote and advance efforts to build the next generation of skilled workers to advance defense manufacturing and support services.

Help found and form the board of the directors for the Indian Reliability Maintenance Council. Helping guide their development, growth and enrichment activities.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Working to create skill development and energy conservation programs

Serving an organization dedicated to reaching out to impovervished youth and providing enrichment and career development programs.

Helsinki, Finland

Regularly contribute editorial on the Maintenance Crisis to Maintworld Magazine

SkillTV.net is an online video channel that focuses on resolving the worldwide maintenance crisis. SkillTV is collaborative endeavor with Joel Leonard and Putman Media and serves as the online video component for Plant Services Magazine.

Joel Leonard served CoC to help create the Thrive document and exposed governmental and business leaders to the opportunities in the Maintenance and Reliability Sector. His advice helped open the beltway to the opportunities of this critical economic driver.

Although not a job, I have taken on the mission to fight the Maintenance Crisis and have been evangelizing about the value contribution worldwide.

Triad Region Of Nc

Roles & Responsibilities: Senior Chapter ChairResponsibilities Recruit members to your chapter to expand your size and influence. Retain members by encouraging and promoting their involvement, and reminding them when they are up for renewals. Develop and schedule chapter events and programs (no fewer than four meetings or technical tours per year). Communicate regularly with SME members through chapter meetings and through your chapter's print and electronic communications vehicles. Provide training to chapter officials and representatives. Appoint members to the Honor Awards Committee. Appoint a chapter Certification Chair. Preside over all official chapter functions according to the SME Governance Document. Counsel and advise chapter administrative committees. Ensure that all chapter officials and committees can handle their responsibilities and that all required documents are completed and submitted on schedule. Oversee the Nominating Committee functions. Ensure the chapter is well-represented at a minimum of one SME Professional Development Conference each year. Communicate often with your member and industry relations manager and/or membership consultant, sharing ideas and generating solutions to problems.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Building a start up Non profit to generate higher level skills and talent in the area. Roles not completely defined at this point, but involved in the recruitment and retention of member by creating value oriented offering and working with media outlets to promote offerings.Also involved in locating equipment, developing member discounts at area suppliers.http://www.forgegreensboro.org/

Served as a volunteer on Board of Directors and will be working to develop strategies and approaches to enhance performance in the Facilities Engineering profession worldwide. Established connections, worked to build the next generation of skilled technicians. Provided online seminars and other outreach initiatives to grow the profession.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Supporting the machinist development programs to build the next generation of skilled technicians.

Joel Leonard writes a monthly column for Plant Services called the Crisis Corner. He provides insight and information on tactics and techniques on how to fight the Maintenance Crisis. In 2008 his column won 2008 ASBPE Gold Award for regular column in a business publication.

MPACT Learning provides hands on Technical training for multi-craft technicians. Also offer classes for Maintenance Managers, Plant Engineers and Plant Managers. MPACT was the former in house technical training division of Burlington Industries. Joel Leonard helped expose the market to MPACT beyond the textile industry. Also hosted 5 major jobfairs that helped over 1500 people locate jobs.

Developed marketing and sales strategies to implement Computerized Maintenance Management Systems for 13 states, major coporations. Was involved in over 1000 implementations including Procter and Gamble, Burlington Industries, Coca Cola and set up Richard Petty to be Corporate Spokesperson.

Bs, Marketing

Education record

Attended North Carolina Chapel Hill for two years. Later transferred to Elon University where I could focus on Business Marketing Degree.

Education record