Key takeaways
Host: Kate Hardin, managing director, Deloitte Services LP
Presenters: John Coykendall, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Michelle Meisels, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Paul Wellener, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
1 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
Many industrial products and construction organizations continue to experience growth as the global economy gradually recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. A new set of opportunities and challenges could unleash or constrain growth ambitions in 2023. How can companies stay ahead and extend their momentum? We’ll discuss:
- Sector-by-sector outlooks on the trends likely to affect key markets
- Insights on how pressing topics including shortages, talent, and sustainability could help shape the industry
- Key milestones and developments to watch in 2023
Meet the speakers
Kate Hardin
Kate Hardin, executive director of Deloitte’s Research Center for Energy and Industrials, has worked in the energy industry for 25 years. She leads Deloitte’s research team covering the implications of the energy transition for the industrial, oil, gas, and power sectors. She has served as an alumni expert at Yale’s Center for Business and Environment, and she is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
John Coykendall
John is the leader of Deloitte’s US and global Aerospace & Defense (A&D) practice. John has 25 years of consulting experience focusing on global companies with highly-engineered products in the A&D, Industrial Products and Automotive industries. John advises senior executives on driving impactful and sustained performance improvement, through both top-line growth and margin improvement initiatives. He has led large-scale transformation efforts to help businesses with strategic cost transformation and operations/supply chain initiatives. John has an undergraduate degree from Lafayette College in Business & Economics and Government & Law and an MBA from Duke University.
Michelle Meisels
Michelle is a principal in Deloitte Consulting’s Technology practice and leads our Engineering & Construction practice. Michelle brings more than 27 years of consulting experience with a focus on leading large, often global, finance and information technology transformation programs by leveraging technology. She helps clients integrate digital technologies with organizational and process standard practices to achieve both qualitative and quantitative benefits. She specializes in JDE, EBS, and Cloud. While she has served clients across many industries, her primary focus has been serving engineering and construction (E&C) companies. Michelle has served many global E&C, EPC, and construction companies throughout her career. Michelle was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from UCLA.
Paul Wellener
Paul is a vice chair, Deloitte LLP, and the leader of the US Industrial Products & Construction practice. He has more than three decades of experience in the industrial products and automotive sectors and has focused on helping organizations address major transformations. Paul drives key sector industry initiatives to help companies adapt to an environment of rapid change and uncertainty—globalization, exponential technologies, the skills gap, and the evolution of Industry 4.0. Based in Cleveland, Paul also serves as the managing principal of Northeast Ohio.
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