Emporia, Kansas
Leadership development for Emporia's manufacturing, healthcare, and education employers
Emporia calls itself the Pet Nutrition Capital of the world, and it's not an exaggeration: Simmons Pet Food, Cargill Animal Nutrition, and Hill's Pet Nutrition all run major operations here. Add Emporia State University and Newman Regional Health, and this is a town with a genuinely varied leadership landscape for its size.
What that looks like here
A production supervisor on a manufacturing line, a department chair at the university, and a charge nurse at the hospital are managing very different rooms, but the same thing trips them up: nobody ever taught them what to do with pressure before it started looking like bad management. Most leadership training is written for none of those rooms specifically. This is built around the actual person under the actual pressure, not a generic framework applied afterward.
How this works in Emporia
- In-person workshops and coaching on-site or nearby
- 1:1 leadership coaching for production, clinical, and academic leaders, in person or virtual
- Leadership recruiting for roles where a bad hire costs a shift, a semester, or a patient's trust
- Engagements sized to the actual problem, one struggling leader or a full leadership layer
Where to start
Tell me what's actually going on: a specific leader, a team that's stopped listening to each other, turnover you can't explain. That's a more useful starting point than a service menu.
I also work in Wichita, El Dorado, Newton, and Marion County, where I'm based.
Frequently asked questions
Do you work with Emporia's pet food and animal nutrition manufacturers?
Yes. Emporia calls itself the Pet Nutrition Capital of the world for good reason, Simmons Pet Food, Cargill Animal Nutrition, and Hill's Pet Nutrition all run major operations here. Production supervisors managing shift-based manufacturing teams are a core part of this work.
How close are you to Emporia?
I'm based in Marion County, within realistic driving distance for in-person workshops and coaching.
Do you work with Emporia State University or healthcare employers too?
Yes. Between Emporia State and Newman Regional Health, there's a real mix of academic and clinical leadership here too, alongside the manufacturing side. The pressures look different, the underlying pattern doesn't.