Connecting the Dots Skip Steward

Robert “Cujo” Teschner is a combat veteran. He’s a former F-15 “Eagle” instructor at the prestigious U.S. Air Force Weapons school—the Air Force “Top Gun” program. He’s also a former F-22 “Raptor” fighter squadron commander, having commanded one of America’s precious few operational F-22 fighter squadrons.
 
During his time teaching at the Weapons School, Cujo served as the U.S. Air Force’s Subject Matter Expert on the practice of team accountability. His published work from that time is still in use throughout the Air Force today. Specifically, Cujo authored “The Vocabulary of the Debrief” and helped mold the Methodology of the Debrief, defining the language and accountability practices that the Air Force uses to the present day.
A 1995 distinguished military graduate of the Air Force Academy and a 2013 distinguished graduate of the National War College, Cujo retired from the Air Force in December 2015, achieving the rank of full Colonel. But because of a battle with colorectal cancer, Cujo and his family decided to retire from the Air Force early. Team Teschner’s ambition was to focus on Cujo’s health and to accommodate the fact that his body was largely broken. This led to Cujo’s introduction to entrepreneurship.
Back when he was teaching at the Weapons School, Cujo believed that the principles he was teaching applied to a much wider audience. In fact, as Cujo started to refine and update the Accountability practices he would teach for the entirety of his time at the Weapons School, he also started thinking about translating those principles to business. Once cancer forced him to give up his ability to fly high-performance fighter aircraft, he pivoted to teaching businesses the principles that allow all teams to thrive in disruption. And he’s never looked back.
Cujo is now the founder and CEO of VMax Group, an international leadership training company. He is also the national bestselling author of Debrief to Win: How America’s Top Guns Practice Accountable Leadership … and How You Can, Too! His second book, Aiming Higher: A Journey Through Military Aviation Leadership also immediately went to #1 on the Amazon bestseller list. Cujo has built his growing company from scratch, and everyone in the company is committed to the company’s purpose: To teach and inspire real teamwork so that teams thrive in disruption and keep our economy strong.
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Billy Ray Taylor is the CEO of LinkedXL and author of “The Winning Link“. Billy previously worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for 30 years; starting off on the plant floor and retiring as Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion and Executive Director of Commercial, Off Highway, and Support Manufacturing North America.
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Korby Miller, MS, CPXP
Vice President of Experience, Safety and Quality Operations
Prisma Health
Korby Miller, MS I/O Psy, CPXP, CPHQ, CPPS, is a health care executive with nearly a
decade of progressive leadership at some of the largest health systems in the nation.
Korby serves as the Vice President of Experience, Safety and Quality Operations at Prisma
Health – the largest health system in South Carolina, serving 1.5 million distinct patients
with 18 acute and specialty hospitals and one of the nation’s largest medical groups.
Korby has developed and implemented patient experience systems at scale that have led to
industry-leading improvement and sustained outcomes across the continuum of care. Most
notably, Medical Group ranks above top quartile in “Likelihood to Recommend” - an
improvement of nearly 30 percentile ranking points during the height of the pandemic when
national performance was declining and hospital performance has improved 3x the amount
of the national average. She also leads Prisma Health’s total learning and improvement
system, the Pulse Program, that enables all team members to manage all domains of
outcomes within their daily work. Over the past year, Prisma Health has achieved
significant improvement in experience, safety, quality and cost, while also improving team
member engagement.
Korby has an extensive coaching and performance improvement background influencing
work design. She has authored work on provider-nurse rounding practices and their impact
on safety and experience outcomes. Korby fundamentally believes in two core tenants –
that experience leads to trust and trust leads to better health outcomes, and that work
should be designed with teams and patients, not for them. She is deeply committed to
streamlining the work of experience, safety and quality by designing workflows from the
front-line and patient perspectives.
Before joining Prisma Health, Korby led systemwide experience efforts for Intermountain
Health in its fully integrated model for managing safety, quality and experience functions.
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Michael Bungay Stanier has a gift for distilling big, complex ideas into practical, accessible knowledge for everyday people that helps them be a force for good. His books have sold over a million copies, with The Coaching Habit topping the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. MBS has been featured on the blogs and social media platforms of thought leaders including Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, and Brené Brown, and has appeared on ABC, BBC, CBC, Ted.com, and innumerable podcasts―as well as in notable publications including the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Inc., and Fast Company. MBS is the founder of Box of Crayons, a learning and development company, that helps organizations move from advice-driven action to curiosity-led transformation. They have trained more than half a million people for clients including Microsoft, Salesforce, TELUS and Gucci. Before establishing Box of Crayons, MBS’s accomplishments included publishing an academic article on James Joyce and a Harlequin-esque short story; playing small roles in helping invent Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Crust pizza and creating “one of the worst single-malt whiskies in existence”; and spending 20 minutes writing what has remained GlaxoSmithKline’s global vision for more than 20 years. A former Rhodes Scholar, MBS is an Australian who now lives in Toronto, Canada. You can join others committed to being a force for change at MBS.works
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Shaun Barker has been the assistant executive director for the Shingo Institute since 2001 where he is responsible for such organizational operations as finance, human resources, information technology, marketing, and development. He is also responsible for the assessment value stream and its pool of approximately 160 examiners from industries around the world. He has personally participated in dozens of comprehensive site assessment visits to business and government organizations worldwide that have challenged for the Shingo Prize. Mr. Barker participates in the development of Shingo educational offerings and is a contributor to both the world-renowned Shingo Model and the Shingo Prize Application Guidelines - the international standard of operational excellence. He was a key participant in the creation of a Lean certification program sponsored by AME, SME, and the Shingo Institute. Mr. Barker is an engaging speaker and instructor for the Shingo Institute and trains companies on the Shingo Model and the Shingo Guiding Principles, teaching how to apply principle-based leadership to their own operations and to use assessment tools to foster continuous improvement within their organizations. As a result of his expertise, Mr. Barker has delivered presentations and workshops to professionals in various parts of the world including the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, and Europe. Mr. Barker's professional industry background in retail management operations included 14 years of work with Sav-On Drugs, Wal-Mart, and Dollar General. He has experience with profit and loss responsibility for multi-million dollar operations in high growth environments. Mr. Barker earned a bachelor's degree in marketing with a minor in economics from Utah State University and an MBA with an emphasis in entrepreneurship.
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