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Change Mentor Academy (CMA)

We'll help you build leaders and problem solvers not dependency on others.

12-Month Training & Coaching Program - Structured Monthly Cycle

This program provides a consistent and practical framework for strengthening operational excellence, leadership capability, and continuous improvement skills across the organization. Each month follows a four-step cycle designed to introduce new concepts, encourage collaborative learning, and ensure real-world application.

Message From Craig:

I would like to offer you a free Internal Capability Assessment for business and operations leaders. It’s a short, executive-level conversation focused on how problems are identified, solved, and sustained inside an organization.

This isn’t a sales presentation. In many cases, the most valuable outcome is simply clarity or a connection. I often act as a matchmaker, helping people find others who can help solve specific problems, or by connecting you to people who may benefit from what you do.

If you prefer I will give you and your team a free Lunch and Learn type coaching session focused on one of our other programs like the "Strategy and the Storms of Chaos." or John Maxwell's "15 Invaluable Laws of Growth." The goal is to help you, to show value, and to build a relationship.

Tons of Training Possibilities

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Reach Out to Craig below.

We can keep trainings and meetings from eating up your teams' working hours.

Option 1 = No downtime with maximized results:

The most effective and efficient way:

  • Only 3 Hours a Month Total for Training, Facilitation, and Coaching - 12 Months a Year

  • No Down Time

  • Learn How to Apply AI

  • Monthly Demonstrations of Results

  • Real-time Kanban Tracking of Backlogs

  • Applied Agile Guidance (Retrospective) and Monthly Control with Applied Improvements

  • Fun and Maximum Engagement

  • No burnout or Over Stressed Classrooms

    Schedule Example:

  • Week 1 - Lunch and Learn, Focused One Hour Training on One Subject (one Hour)

    • Each month begins with a focused Lunch-and-Learn session introducing the month’s topic and key applications. Participants can learn while they eat, maximizing efficiency and ensuring the learning is accessible and time-effective. This session establishes the concepts and tools that will guide discussions and actions throughout the month.

  • Homework 1 - Between Week 1 and Week 2 - participants complete a brief homework assignment.

    • Their task is to reflect on the training content and identify:

      • Where the concept applies in their daily operations

      • Potential improvement opportunities

      • Challenges or bottlenecks related to the topic

      • Ideas they want to explore with peers during the upcoming roundtable

      This step builds ownership and prepares participants for a meaningful, collaborative discussion

  • Week 2 - Facilitated Round Table Master Mind (One Hour)

    • Week Two features a facilitator-led round-table mastermind designed to translate learning into actionable insight. During this session, participants: Share their homework ideas and build on each other’s ideas. They discuss real operational scenarios and identify practical ways to implement the topic in their work areas.

      The session also includes a short alignment segment to determine the emphasis and approach for the next week, allowing the program to flex around current business priorities.

  • Homework #2 - Prepare for One-on-one Coaching

    • Between Week Two and the 1-on1 coaching session, participants complete a brief homework assignment.

      Their task is to reflect on the training content and insights from the mastermind, and identify:

      • Where the concept applies in their daily operations

      • Potential improvement opportunities where they want to implement their ideas

      • Challenges or bottlenecks related to the topic

      • Opportunities to overcome challenges

      • Schedule a 1-on-1 call for coaching

  • Weeks Three & Four—Individual Coaching Sessions (1 Hour/Each)

    • During the last two weeks of each month, participants receive dedicated one-on-one coaching. These coaching sessions ensure that ideas generated during the Lunch-and-Learn and roundtable translate into real execution. This process positions the participant as the expert in their operation, while the coach facilitates clarity, accountability, and forward momentum. Sessions follow the structured A.O.O.A. Coaching Framework:

      • A – Agenda: What specific issue, improvement opportunity, or goal is the participant focused on this week?

      • O – Obstacles: What barriers or constraints could limit progress?

      • O – Opportunities: What resources, approaches, or strategies can help the participant overcome those obstacles?

      • A – Action: What concrete steps will the participant commit to?

  • Homework #3 - Prepare for A Demo with Internal Staff (Optional)

    • Between the One-on-one coaching session and the next month, participants prepare to report on their successes, plans, strategy, and results to their internal company stakeholders.

  • Demonstrate - Application of Learning (Optional ~30 Minutes)

    • This is a planned interaction with internal stakeholders that comes either at end of the month or before the next month’s Lunch and Learn Session. Here the participants can introduce their ideas, plans, strategies to and receive feedback from the stakeholders. The goal is to facilitate real change, continuously improve, communicate with leaders, and to celebrate the process of participation.

Training, Coaching, Consulting, and Mentoring all in One Systematic Approach

Focused on Your Requirements

Adjust and customize everything to your organizational needs in real-time.

Training Categories

We are here to focus on your needs using the latest application of the best in class tools and AI applications.

#1 - John Maxwell Leadership Materials

We are members of the John Maxwell Group of Leadership Trainers, Coaches, and Speakers

We help you prepare for sustainable leadership and have a vast set of John Maxwell resources. We can also call on other John Maxwell members to help support your needs.

#2 - Change Management

We have been doing change management support and training for 40 years.

We help teach your people how to master change in three important ways. Transition Management is the people side of change. Project/Program/Agile Management is the technical side of implementing a change. Portfolio and Configuration Management is the gate to change that keeps you out of trouble and controls what and when you change.

#3 - Operational Excellence

We help turn your people into internal consultants and problem solvers at a fraction of the cost of external help.

We have 40 years of consulting and teaching operational excellence.

We combine lessons, mastermind round tables, gamified support, improvement assignments, and coaching to help your people use the tools that will make your operations excellent.

With our continuous teach a little, do a little process your people prepare for their next level of leadership with very little or even no production downtime. This monthly program allows you to use an enterprise agile approach to custom design and change your program to achieve real time results and solve problems as they appear.

#4 - Tradistional "predictive" and agile "addaptive" project management (PM)

We help your people master project management and the technical side of change.

We have several levels of both Agile and Traditional PM training and support with several partners in delivery and certifications.

Level 1 (White Belt) - An Executive Summary - Understand the entire enterprise needs and uses for PM. Understand the basics of PM and how it fits into the enterprise (Project Management Operations/Offices - PMO, Program, Enterprise Agile Systems, Portfolio Management, the Full Cycle of Change, Organizational Structures, Managing PMs, Strategic Issues, etc.)

Level 2 (Yellow Belt) - Understand the basics of how to Use PM. This is for the person who needs a basic understanding how to successfully use PM.

Level 3 (Green Belt) - Pass the PMP and Other certifications for those seasoned PM.

Level 4 (Black Belt) - Learn Program Management (PM to scale). Learn about how to manage many projects at one time, how develop systems, and about PMO operations.

The next level is a train-the-trainer Master Black Belt level.

#5 - Lean, six sigma, Business process reengineering, continuous process improvement

We help your people master everything continuous improvement in three easy to understand phases that even a PhD or janitor can understand.

We've played in the continuous improvement world at every layer from dishwasher, to educator, to CEO. We worked within Government Organizations, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Agriculture, Retail, Health Care, and can help you eliminate waste, defects, and confusion.

If needed, we work with several organizations to certify your team in lean and six sigma.

#6 - AI training - how to apply AI tools to your Operations

We team with AI application creators and AI learning platforms to analyze, develop, and train your people how to master AI as a Bicycle (not a Crutch).

Either Master Change or Become Irrelevant!

We can sign your people up for low-cost self-paced training on over 50 AI tools. We can analyze your operations for opportunities to apply AI, and even create customized AI tools to improve operations.

Which brings you to the question...

What's could we do if we lead leaders?

(Tried-and-tested to improve productivity, quality, safety, and customer experiences.)

We've helped 1000s of people reduce waste and optimize productivity. Here's what this system comes down to:

1. Systems - An easy to understand framework that helps you "create leaders, problem solvers, and internal consultant."

2. Tools – We help your people fill their problem solving tool box with tools they can use for a lifetime. We introduce methods that they can apply to their current operations and use to solve future problems.

3. Core Competencies - With improved skills comes engagement, pride of workmanship, and participation.

4. Lower cost and higher profits - We help you optimize processes and systems.

  • Help Your Team go to the next level.

    • Master Systems Thinking

    • Learn Excellent Leadership with The John Maxwell Series

    • Get Certified VMedu Offerings (BA, Agile, Lean Six Sigma)

    • ICAgile Certification

    • Learn AI with the 50+ AI Tools

    • Get Certified from the IISE (Lean Six Sigma)

    • Project Management

    • Change Management

    • Operational Excellence

Westbook Stevens, LLC - The Change Mentor Academy