A talk that comes out of the book
Jay wrote Leadership Between the Lines. He also created the LBL-10 framework. A keynote draws on both.
Heart, humor, help. In that order, on purpose.
Speaking
Everything Jay says up there, he has to do on Monday
Jay runs an engineering team on weekdays. He talks about leading people the same way he does it at work, in plain words, with the mistakes left in.
Four things Jay does
A working session, not a talk
In a workshop your people do the work while Jay is in the room.
DISC, for teams that keep talking past each other
Jay is a certified DISC consultant. DISC gives a team shared words for how each person works and what each person needs to hear.
One person at a time
Jay is a John Maxwell Certified Coach and Executive Director. Coaching is the slow version of everything above. Same work, fewer people in the room.
What all four are built on
The same base sits under every one of them. A book Jay wrote, and a framework he created called the LBL-10.
There is also the LBL-10 Leadership Assessment. It is 100 items long, and it has its own page on this site.
My phone rang at two in the morning. One of my technicians was alone in the building. Three carousels down, trucks waiting, and an operations supervisor standing nearby supplying pressure. I drove in and walked past all of it to the end of the line. One tote, wedged at the top of a spiral conveyor, holding back everything behind it. I climbed a ladder and pushed it. The line started breathing again.
Who is actually standing up there
Jay is 63 and lives in Lindenhurst, New York. His work has been in manufacturing and operations. Estée Lauder, Coca-Cola, AmerisourceBergen, FreshDirect, and now Oerlikon Metco, where he is an engineering manager.
Those are jobs he held, not clients he sold to. It matters for one reason. He is not describing a plant floor from the outside. He still works on one.
The rest of it, since people ask:
- Author of Leadership Between the Lines
- Creator of the LBL-10 framework and the 100 item LBL-10 Leadership Assessment
- Certified DISC consultant
- John Maxwell Certified Coach and Executive Director
- CPMM
I trained my own team on the machine itself. There were forty diverting conveyors in that building, and the cog belt was the thing that failed most. So I pulled a spare unit into a quiet corner and worked out how to change that belt in place. Then I ran every team member through it. Not until they got it right. Until they couldn't get it wrong.
How to book Jay
There is no booking calendar here yet, so this part is old fashioned. You send an email.
Say who the group is, roughly how many people, the date you have in mind, and what you want them to walk out with. That is enough to start.
Where the money goes
Leadership TeamBuilder is the 501(c)(3) Jay founded in 2017. Every dollar from his coaching, speaking, workshops and The Second Shift goes to it. Jay donates his time.
If the nonprofit is what you came for, go straight to leadershiptb.org.
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