Steve Baumgartner didn’t arrive at the executive table by reading about leadership. He earned it from the ground up. Over a 32-year career in industrial operations, Steve held virtually every role in the business: operator, maintenance technician, maintenance supervisor, maintenance manager, plant engineer, and ultimately Director of Asset Reliability and Maintenance, overseeing 42 plants for the world’s largest pork company. He went on to serve as Plant Manager of a 350-person facility before leading a 1,700-person operation with a $226 million budget as General Manager. That progression is his credential. Steve has sat in every seat your teams occupy, and when he speaks about maintenance and reliability, operational excellence, and leading under pressure, people in the room know he has lived it.