Key takeaways
Host: Kate Hardin, managing director, Deloitte Services LP
Presenters: Lindsay Berckman, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
John Coykendall, vice chair, Deloitte LLP
Michelle Meisels, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
2024 is shaping up to be the year where we could experience some longer-term impacts of billions of dollars in government spending and tax incentives on industrial products and construction organizations. A new set of opportunities and challenges could unleash or constrain growth ambitions. How can companies stay ahead and extend their momentum? We’ll discuss:
- Sector-by-sector outlooks on trends likely to affect key markets
- Insights on how topics including GenAI, talent, and sustainability could shape the industry
- Milestones and developments to watch in 2024
Meet the speakers
Kate Hardin
Kate Hardin leads Deloitte’s research team focused on the implications of the energy transition for the industrial, oil, gas, and power sectors and has an experience of more than 25 years in the energy industry. Before that, she led IHS Markit Ltd’s integrated coverage of transportation decarbonization and the implications for automotive and energy companies.
Lindsey Berckman
Lindsey leads Deloitte’s US Aerospace & Defense (A&D) practice and is also a Smart Manufacturing leader in Deloitte’s industrial manufacturing sector, with more than 16 years of experience serving at the intersection of production, operations, and technology in our Consulting practice. With a broad range of experience in our aerospace & defense, industrials, and automotive sectors, Lindsey helps our clients shape their digital transformation roadmaps, investing in solutions built for scale, focused on delivering value, and designed to transform legacy manufacturing processes through digital technologies and AI/cognitive insights. Lindsey was a key player in launching Deloitte’s Smart Manufacturing use cases and key assets and is highly engaged with our ecosystem partners focused on the A&D sector. Lindsey works across the Deloitte functions to bring comprehensive thinking to challenges – by leveraging digital technologies and engaging multifaceted teams, she drives transformational change that cuts across all realms of the digital enterprise.
John Coykendall
John is a vice chair, Deloitte LLP, and the leader of the US Industrial Products & Construction practice. John has more than 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 30 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 Oracle Cloud, JDE, Tech Strategy and Digital Transformations. 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.
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