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Featured Speaker

Karen Schultz MA, AIP (Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner), Business Developer, WALCO Tool & Engineering

An entrepreneur Karen wanted to pay for her education while she learned, Karen

Schultz received her associates degree in art and special education while researching, “Why Art is Fundamental to Learning, and the Innovative Edge and Health of our Country.”

She pursued her interests in business with a focus on organizational behavior and development, while working with behavior disorder students in K-8. Her students taught her about the importance of being happy and its effects on your circle of influence.

She found herself being pursued by a small manufacturer, WALCO Tool & Engineering, to diversify their portfolio.

Background

Karen received her associates degree in art and special education while researching, “Why Art is Fundamental to Learning, and the Innovative Edge and Health of our Country.”

She attended to earning a Master’s Degree full time, while working full time, to hope to inspire her work community of the power of education, their voice and its influence on the sustainability of their career and work community.

Building Sustainable Supply

Karen Schultz Business Developer, WALCO Tool & Engineering

Researcher, Building Sustainable Partnerships Between Rural and Corporate America

www.walcotool.com

NOTES: Sustainable Development Criteria for WALCO Tool & Engineering External Teams

WALCO Tool & Engineering A Flat, Responsive, Agile, Educated, Skilled Workforce

• Diversification of portfolio – People with a diverse background who make us whole

• Different strengths • Different backgrounds • Enjoy collaboration, are confident enough not to be defensive or

offensive • People who are focused on personal investment • People who are passionate about making stuff • People who take their citizenship seriously • People who are creative • People who understand the importance of

responsiveness, agility and why we are in business

What defines the sustainability of a business?

Is it a building?

People? Their titles, roles, levels of success in the hierarchy, pay scales,

regulations, handbooks, structure or lack of, profitability?

http://csi-global.org/content/socio-ecological-assessment-framework

Conservation Science Institute

Diagrams, Measurements, Hierarchal titles, Job Descriptions, Cultural Systems?

Global Balance of Resources?

• Minerals • Gas • Oil

• Metals • Water

• Weather • Regional Environment

Karen’s definition • A shared vision that people are and driven about fulfilling

• It is about stories behind the people • It is about realizing each other’s strengths

• Its about individual life missions • Its about writing a new story, drawing up the outline and

seeing it through to the end • People who are “in it, one for all and all for one” --with a

whatever it takes attitude With a long term vision

With the realization that there is someone who needs them to do what they do well while staying able to reinvest, grow and

stay focused on those who need results

Definitions of Sustainability

Different to each

individual

“But understanding how sustainability works…. its just common sense!”

Define Common

Sense

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Definition: Decide What to Learn About Sustainability Together as a

Seamless Team

Discovery: Opportunity Context

Positive Core

Dream: Envisioning what might be; shared

images for a preferred future

Design: Finding innovative ways to

create that future; Breakthrough propositions

Delivery: Sustaining the

Change Sustainability

SOAR vs. SWOT

% of time you spend measuring what went wrong vs. what went great and

where else to implement it!

What you focus on is what you get! Rule of Attraction

Flow Chart of RELATIONSHIPS passionate, driven

Supplier A

Supplier B

Supplier C Supplier D

Supplier E

Supplier F Supplier G

Shared Vision Delivers Quality

Service and Product

Satisfied Customer

Relationships / Seamless Teams

• Generally what happens in a business hierarchy

• Generally what happens when someone is procuring a product or service

• Generally what happens with team building process

• Generally what happens with relationships in business

• WHY is sustainability difficult?

What happens when you build a relationship?

Sustainability is not new it’s as old as life itself

and its ability to respond, stay agile and survive

• The relationship of any living system – Food / Proper balanced nutrition – Water / Liquids that bring nutrition – Compatibility / Environment = Spirituallly, mentally,

physically – Sun / Light – Death and renewal – Interdisciplinary system structures of give, take,

interactive change

If sustainability has been around since the beginning of time

Why are we still struggling with it?

S • Will sustainability be something you take the time to understand long term

– About your educationYour career • Your health • Your work community • Your family • Your neighbors • Your schools and community • Your work community • Your vision for self, for others you affect

YOU

• Are the generation with a shared vision focused on sustainability

WILL YOU, as young energetic MBAs and passionate PhD researchers

UNDERSTAND THAT BALANCE

with SUSTAINABILITY in mind is healthy long term

WE the generations before you and after you

COUNT ON your GENERATION

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Thank you, Karen !

You made whole the pieces of the puzzle!

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Q & A Brandon Pitcher Chief Sustainability Officer, 5 Kingdoms Development, LLC.

Karen Schultz MA, AIP (Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner), Business Developer for WALCO Tool & Engineering

The Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises & the Global Supply Chain Management Initiative

Sustainability October 5, 2012 Purdue University Krannert

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