I didn't start as a consultant. I started on the inside.
My first years were spent inside plants and facilities, learning how things actually work, where the real problems hide, and what it takes to get people moving in the same direction. By the time I started consulting, I already knew what it felt like to be the person on the receiving end of outside help. That shaped everything about how I work.
I founded Kelter Group because I kept seeing the same thing: smart people, genuine effort, and improvement initiatives that didn't hold. Not because the people failed, but because nobody built a complete system around them. Or they brought in a firm that delivered a beautiful presentation and disappeared before anything real happened.
That's not what I do.
I embed. I work at every level, from the floor to the C-suite, because that's the only way to understand what's actually going on. I've sat in morning operations meetings and afternoon board sessions on the same day and been useful in both rooms. That range isn't something I learned in a classroom. It came from years of doing the work.
I care about outcomes more than most, and I've been told that by clients more than once. That's not a tagline. It's just how I'm wired. I think about the people behind the work. If I can make someone's job a little clearer, a little less chaotic, that doesn't just stay at work. It goes home with them. It's in how they show up for their families. That ripple effect is real, and it matters to me.
I also know I'm effectively re-earning my role every single day. That keeps me honest.
My background spans manufacturing, healthcare, energy, and PE-backed environments. I've launched greenfield plants, doubled invoicing operations, built ISO systems from scratch, and delivered Lean transformations alongside some of the best practitioners in the business, including work with Milliken Performance Solutions. I hold an engineering degree from Georgia Tech and an MBA from LSU. But the credential I trust most is the track record.
Beyond the Engagement
Outside of client work, I serve on five nonprofit boards and advisory roles across Western North Carolina, in education, housing, and community development. I'm also the Production Director for several music festivals in Brevard, North Carolina and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Same instinct, different stage. Every one of those organizations had no structure, unclear processes, or operational dysfunction, and needed someone who could build systems that hold. Sound familiar?
The Kelter Group Philosophy
"Every person touched by your operation is a customer, the exec who needs results, the manager who needs clarity, the employee who needs a system that works."
If you're looking for someone who shows up, builds something real, and stays until it works, let's talk.