Mike Thayer Email & Phone Number

Billings, MT, US

Billings, Montana, United States

Work with all Refining & Logistics business units to craft and deploy impactful leadership development and sustainment programs, with special focus on front-line leaders.

I am the author of THE DOUBLE LIFE OF DANNY DAY (2021) and THE TALENT THIEF (2023)

Author of THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF THE TECHNO WIZARD series.Conduct engaging, entertaining, inspirational, and motivational school visits and writers workshops for groups of 10 - 600+.Two-time Whitney Award Finalist ("Passage to Avalon", "The Vacant Realm")

- Assess, assist, and develop improvement solutions for all elements of ExxonMobil's Global Reliability System.- Conduct quarterly Leadership Workshops- Provide group and individual leadership coaching to all site leadership

Billings, Montana, United States

Implement and train 300+ refinery staff and wage personnel on the Extreme Ownership Leadership framework to drive site culture change. Worked alongside Echelon Front instructors to develop and implement site-specific LDAP (Leadership Development and Alignment Program), including presentations, guides, workshops, trainings, rewards program, and other tools.

Billings, Montana

• Lead maintenance team of planners, schedulers, first line supervisors, and maintenance contractors for the Exxon Billings refinery.
• Lead team of maintenance planners, schedulers, first line supervisors, wage employees, and maintenance contractors during 2017 Fall Turnaround.
• Responsible for all dimensions of mechanical execution and planning performance (safety, reliability, efficiencies, betterments, business controls) to Complex 1 Business Team.
• Accountable for development and execution of Annual Maintenance Plan for Complex 1 Business Team.
• Site lead for Incident and Investigation analysis

Longford, Australia

• Managed international team of 10 inspectors and quality coordinators to oversee procurement, fabrication and construction (welding, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation, painting, insulation) quality for.
• Provided oversight of EPC contractor’s and sub-contractors’ quality programs.
• Actively participated as member of Project Leadership Team

• Responsible for functional supervision, career development, and staffing moves for 20 direct reports in Asia Pacific and Caspian Sea regions.
• Provided project contracting strategy, scheduling and organization support for 5 projects in the Asia Pacific and Caspian Sea regions.
• Performed case study on Risked Based Organization results, tool, process and guidance document.
• Developed an integrated regulatory and engineering milestone schedule for pre-Concept Select work for Golden Pass Liquefaction Project.

Houston, Texas

• Plan and co-lead/facilitate 14 IPR teams in 11 months for projects in Canada, Angola, Norway, and USA, to evaluate compliance to Exxon’s Capital Project Management System.
• Responsible for conducting IPR training courses for Project Management & Execution organization.

Houston, Texas

• Project Manager for four simultaneous projects (drill well facilities, flare upgrades, filter coalescer installation) through design, construction and commissioning at four different assets totaling $17.4M in.

Bay City, Texas

• Head investigation of temperature instability issues with company’s propionaldehyde reactor, recommending modifications with a projected savings of $740,000/yr.
• Make possible the production of a new product with a projected profit of $1,000,000/yr by providing necessary hydraulic and heat transfer calculations (as well as recommendations for pump and pipe sizing).