Managing Partner
La Clara Vista Consulting
Fairfield, CA
Stephen (Steve) McKeon is a motivated, approachable servant leader with more than 25 years' professional experience leading teams in global operations in the Automotive/Aerospace, Defense Contracting, and recently Wine/Spirits markets.
He has extensive experience in program management, project execution, and developing high-performance work teams who deliver results. With a unique operations background to include environmental, health and safety, lean manufacturing, and contract services, he has demonstrated the ability to solve business challenges and deliver results in US and global markets. With his focus on stakeholder groups—the customer, the employee, and the business—he finds balance and harmony to achieve alignment and meet competing demands. From this perspective, he has helped many organizations develop leaders in the practice and currently conducts workshops with partners Lupe Munoz and Alex Aranda on Transformational Leadership founded in Servant Leadership.
Leveraging lean thinking methodologies and practice, he helps organizations evolve and grow through development of standard work practice with a robust continuous improvement approach to eliminate wasteful practice. He has extensive experience in problem solving, process engineering, organizational change management, risk management, project planning, team building, communication, technical support, and program start-up and closure.
Values: Trust, Safety, Respect, Integrity, Resilience
Priorities: Family, Friendship, Life Experiences
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science - Metropolitan State University of Denver
Certified in Lean Practice - George Group
You can learn more about Steve by catching him and Lupe Munoz on The Leadership Exchange podcast.
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