Topic(s)
- People-centric leadership
This content will not be available on-demand.
Overview
Fundamental forces such as population demographics and shifting societal attitudes are changing the nature of work and the relationships between people and their employment environments. This is particularly obvious within front-line team members who now expect to be treated with dignity and expect to perform work that is meaningful.
While nobody knows for certain how work will evolve into the future, we do know that organizational cultures and leadership strategies will also modernize as we connect the roles and relationships of people within our organizations.
Adding to these advancements, we have decades of experience and lessons learned through our efforts in Lean and enterprise excellence focused on continuous improvement. While there have been many lessons learned, we know for certain that the future of work and workforce development will have a focus on building Meaningful Employment Environments.
Join TrailPath Workplace Solutions as we discuss current research and operational initiatives relative to building Meaningful Employment Environments.
Key learning objectives
- Future of workforce development: How are population demographics, societal attitudes and workforce development fundamentally changing, and what may be the future implications of these changes?
- Lessons in enterprise excellence: What are the most important Lean lessons learned in enterprise excellence that will allow us to build upon a solid foundation of learning for the future of work and leadership?
- Dignity and meaningful work: How could an organizational workforce strategy be simplified to just focusing on dignity and meaningful work?
- Creating Meaningful Employment Environments: How will we create a roadmap to bridge conceptual insights to tangible action items to determine, “What will we do with this on Monday morning?”
Interactive components
In this workshop, experience the interactive Meaningful Employment Environment (MEE) survey with same-day results and data breakout activities, including workforce challenges, MEE framework, and organizational project planning.
Company
At TrailPath Workplace Solutions (TWS), we stand at the forefront of transforming workplaces into Meaningful Employment Environments (MEE™) — spaces where both organizations and individuals can thrive. With a steadfast belief that the core of every successful organization is its people, TWS is committed to reshaping the landscape of work into one where every team member finds purpose, participation and success. https://www.trailpathws.com/
Presenters
Robert Martichenko is a business leader and chair of TrailPath Workplace Solutions. Previously, as a business leader with an entrepreneurial focus, Martichenko spent over fifteen years as the founder and CEO of the LeanCor Supply Chain Group, an organization focused on implementing Lean principles across the end-to-end supply chain. A continuous thought leader, Martichenko sits on multiple advisory boards, including chair for the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) and the executive board for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). In addition, he has received several prominent industry awards, most notably, the distinguished service award from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), the highest recognition achievable for professionals in the supply chain industry. Martichenko has written and co-written award-winning business books and multiple articles related to Lean, enterprise excellence, supply chain management and leadership. In addition, Martichenko published a fiction novel, “Drift and Hum,” which won multiple awards, including the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Winner award for best first book fiction. He has also written poetic verse for two children’s books.
Martichenko is an active member of the business community and is passionate about the people side of Lean, enterprise excellence, the future of workforce development and creating meaningful employment environments. Martichenko complements his professional experience with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, an MBA in finance, and a Six Sigma Black Belt. 
Matt Melrose is a co-founder and CEO of TrailPath Workplace Solutions. With over two decades of supply chain leadership and operations experience, prior to founding TrailPaths in 2023, Melrose spent thirteen years as the chief operating officer of the LeanCor Supply Chain Group. LeanCor Supply Chain Group was then acquired by Uber Freight in 2020, where Melrose then spent two years leading a successful integration of these two organizations’ teams and customers.
Melrose is a people-focused and results-driven leader experienced in designing and implementing end-to-end supply solutions, transforming organizational cultures and building world-class teams. This work has taken Melrose around the globe, where he has had the unique pleasure of working as a leader, operator, consultant, educator and always a student in a wide variety of industries, organizations and cultures. While Melrose will forever have a strong drive for Lean and operational excellence, it is the people and leadership parts of his work that he is most passionate about. Melrose compliments his professional experience with two bachelor’s degrees in supply chain management and marketing. 
