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Hosted by Unique Training & Development · business · EN-US · 69 episodes
The Accelerating Operational Performance podcast, hosted by leadership author and expert Greg Schinkel, is your destination for breakthrough strategies in manufacturing, supply chain, and operational leadership. Here, a diverse array of guests delivers a trifecta of value in every episode: accelerating projects, engaging teams, and enhancing leadership skills for a stress-reduced path to success.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Accelerating Operational Performance podcast, hosted by leadership author and expert Greg Schinkel, is your destination for breakthrough strategies in manufacturing, supply chain, and operational leadership. Here, a diverse array of guests delivers a trifecta of value in every episode: accelerating projects, engaging teams, and enhancing leadership skills for a stress-reduced path to success.
Accelerating Operational Performance is hosted by Unique Training & Development. The show has published 69 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Kirby Griffin: DRIVE Problem Solving Program" (28 September 2026, 42 minutes), "Dr Pelè: Why Training Alone Doesn’t Create Results" (14 September 2026, 40 minutes), and "Mary Fehr: The Layoff We Didn’t Do" (31 August 2026, 28 minutes).
Accelerating Operational Performance publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 69 episodes.
Booking probability for Accelerating Operational Performance is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Accelerating Operational Performance requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Accelerating Operational Performance's contact route on record: verified email.
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Unique Training & Development hosts Accelerating Operational Performance, a business show with 69 episodes published.
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Accelerating Operational Performance
    Your plant has hundreds of improvement opportunities and a small continuous improvement or quality team to work through them. The same problems keep coming back, shift after shift. The people who know the...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    In this special dual-podcast episode, Greg Schinkel (our President at Unique Training & Development) sits down with Dr. Pelè Ugboajah of ResultPal to tackle one of L&D’s oldest unsolved...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    When tariffs hit and work dried up, Mary Fehr had a spreadsheet answer and a small-town answer. She took the small-town one. Choosing their workers over the spreadsheet. Mary is President of Unifab, a...
Accelerating Operational Performance
Seanna Pickard, HR Director at the Federal Bridge Corporation, breaks down the 3-word mantra she uses to make every decision: fair, equitable, transparent.
Accelerating Operational Performance
    Structure will get a team to its KPIs, but it doesn’t always get them past them. In this episode of Accelerating Operational Performance, host Greg Schinkel talks with Umesh Vendargon, COO of Core...
Accelerating Operational Performance
On this bonus episode, we're sharing a conversation from the Chemical Engineering podcast. Senior editor Scott Jenkins speaks with Greg Schinkel, CEO here at Unique Training & Development and host of the Accelerating...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    What does it actually take to build confidence as a leader? Communication expert and keynote speaker Mimi Brown joins Greg Schinkel to break down her “Own Your Swag” framework and her new book...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    Most plant managers pick up one or two of these five patterns in their first year — not because they’re bad leaders, but because nobody warned them. In this special edition of Accelerating...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    After 49 interviews with senior leaders, operators, engineers, and executives — including a former London, Ontario mayor — Greg pulls back the curtain on the three themes that keep surfacing no matter...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    Most business owners have heard of a fractional CFO. Far fewer have heard of a fractional COO, and that might be exactly the role their business needs. In this episode of the Accelerating Operational...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    Kevin Schinkel, President of Schinkel’s Legacy, joins Greg on the Accelerating Operational Performance podcast to share what 14 years on the plant floor taught him about leadership. From the Easter...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    Nadia Dawe, a people, learning, culture, and operations leader with deep experience in transportation, transit, maintenance, safety, compliance, and frontline leadership, shares what she learned as she...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    How do you transition from a “top-down” manager to a strategic leader who drives operational excellence? Greg sits down with industry veteran Darcy Scott to unpack over 30 years of experience...
Accelerating Operational Performance
Greg sits down with Jeff Gallant, an operations leader with over 30 years of experience driving transformation across some of Canada’s most recognized industrial organizations. Jeff has led billion-dollar investments...
Accelerating Operational Performance
Discover how to turn frontline leadership training into lasting behavior change. Greg Schinkel and Kandis Neth share secrets to making operational learning stick.
Accelerating Operational Performance
    In this episode, Rick Richkowski, VP of Operations at Arrow TruLine, shares leadership insights. He discusses scaling operational excellence through a situational problem-solving approach, the impact of...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    In this episode of the Accelerating Operational Performance Podcast, Greg sits down with entrepreneur Rob Szabo, owner of Palasad and Escapology, to talk about his journey of leadership growth. Rob shares...
Accelerating Operational Performance
    Greg is joined by Ted Bezner, instructor with Unique Training & Development and an expert in cross-cultural communication and frontline leadership development. Ted shares his journey into training, his...
Accelerating Operational Performance
Greg Schinkel and Dr. Steve Cohen share how to build a leadership training strategy that drives real behavior change.
Accelerating Operational Performance
In this special edition of the Accelerating Operational Performance Podcast, Greg Schinkel shares critical insights gained from his recent manufacturing site visits in 2025. As we enter the new year, Greg discusses the...
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