Exciting accomplishments of 2024 for Transformance Advisors

2024 Review from Mike Loughrin

With 2024 now in our wake, let’s summarize the top 10 exciting accomplishments of 2024:

Collaborating with Manufacturer’s Edge
Expanding our Partnership with the International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA)
Increasing Value and Reach through Search Engine Optimization
Refining our Lean Programs for Small and Medium Sized Businesses
Enhancing the Transformance Communiqué to become Your Favorite Newsletter
Adding Coaches and Instructors for our Educational Programs
Creating a series of Top 50 Industry Resources
Sharing the exciting adventures in our Trail of the Month program
Taking 1st Place in a Global Competition with The Fresh Connection
Crafting our 2025 Annual Plan

All of the accomplishments deserve a closer look.

Collaborating with Manufacturer’s Edge

We have been very busy working with Manufacturer’s Edge, Colorado’s official Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Center. They provide onsite support, strategy, planning, training, and technical assistance to manufacturers of all sizes. We are helping a number of companies pursue funding for Lean training through Skill Advance Colorado Job Training Grants.

If you are a Colorado manufacturer, then contact us us about how you can benefit from training grants.

Expanding Our Partnership with ISCEA

In July, we announced our an expanded strategic partnership with the International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA) to provide a comprehensive package of Lean and Six Sigma certification programs to supply chain professionals across the globe.

This expanded partnership addresses the critical need for organizations to create and maintain supply chains which meet the needs of their customers and other stakeholders. This includes the challenging aspects of environmental concerns and the emerging opportunities of crafting a circular supply chain.

Learn more about this partnership at: Partnership with ISCEA press release.

Increasing Value and Reach through SEO

We continued our success working with Boulder SEO Marketing (BSM) to enhance our brand recognition through Search Engine Optimization. Their Micro-SEO Strategies℠ takes a hyper-focused approach, whereby we are implementing improvements page-by-page.

The pages for Certified Lean Practitioner and Certified Lean Master are ranking number 1.

We sharpened the focus of our Lean Transformation Program. There is a greater emphasis on the 3 critical components of Lean Projects, Continuous Improvement, and Program Management. The feedback has been swift and our webpage now ranks #3 for Google searches and is heading to #1.

Refining Lean Programs for SMBs

We have always been known for helping big brand names like Levi Strauss, Warner Bros., and Cabela’s. At the same time, our approach has helped thousands of small and medium sized businesses. During 2024, we crafted a better integration of our coaching, education, and program management capabilities as they apply to small and medium businesses. Our investments in people, systems, content, and other critical success factors gives us a competitive advantage which our customers can leverage.

We increased the coaching capabilities we provide with our Problem Solving Program. There is a greater emphasis on the 3 critical components of Problem Solver, Coach, and Systematic Methodology.

The pages for Certified Lean Practitioner and Certified Lean Master are ranking number 1.

Enhancing the Transformance Communiqué

Mara has been remarkable with improving our newsletter. Subscribers, opens, clicks, and other metrics are all growing.

A new feature, highlighting a person of interest from our community, was launched in March. Meet George Rizk and Meet Doug Strachan were both a big success and reflects Mara’s intent to make the Communiqué “Your Favorite Newsletter”.

We also started providing quarterly updates, yearly reviews, and annual predictions. We want you to know how we are working to keep our programs relevant and effective for you are others seeking to craft sustainable organizations.

Adding Additional Coaches

Lale Lovell joined our team in February and has been making a wonderful impact. She has brought the knowledge, experience, passion, and common sense we need to achieve our mission.

Lale hit the ground running and opened the door for discussions with Manufacturer’s Edge and the World Trade Center Denver.

Creating the Top 50 Industry Resources

We launched a great package of resources for organizational improvement professionals.

The package includes:

Top 50 Organizational Improvement Terms you need to know!
Top 50 Industry Acronyms you need to know!
Top 50 Industry Links you will want to use!

Sharing Each Exciting Trail of the Month

We shared the exciting adventures with our Trail of the Month program. Just a few of them featured:

Lale reporting back from Topsail Hill State Park in Destin, Florida
Mara exploring Arches National Park in Utah
Mike taking a ride on the Elroy Sparta Trail in Wisconsin
Lale taking a hike near Cape Perpetua in Oregon
Mara hiking the Mesa Arch Trail in Canyonlands National Park in Utah
Mike skiing down Psychopath at Breckenridge in Colorado

More adventures will be coming in 2025.

Exciting accomplishments of 2024: Trail of the Month

Taking 1st Place in Global Competition

Mara and I were on the team which took 1st place in the Global Educator & Trainer Challenge for The Fresh Connection. Our team beat 30 other teams from across the globe. Other team members were Nicolai Rassolov, Abrar Khan, and Yu-Cheng Chien.

Discover more about the competition at: Transformance Advisors Team Wins Global Educator & Trainer Challenge 2024.

Learn more about The Fresh Connection.