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NEW Manufacturing Insights

NEW Manufacturing Insights is a collaboration between the Northeast Wisconsin Manufacturing Alliance (NEWMA) and Insight on Manufacturing (IOM) magazine, highlighting issues and opportunities for manufacturers in the 18-county New North region in Northeast Wisconsin. Hosted by NEWMA Executive Director Ann Franz and IOM Editor Kate Bruns featuring guests from across the region, new episodes will be released on Thursdays. Get a quick overview of the latest NEWMA and Insight programs and events, take a

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Ep. 79 (6/5/25): Harnessing the power of presence...

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2025/06/05

Get a preview of Thursday's NEW Manufacturing Alliance quarterly meeting keynote when you listen to this week's conversation with Mike Lee of Mindshift Labs, who shares his insights about living in the present moment and how it connects to leadership in today's distracted world.A Wisconsin native, Mike spent a significant portion of his career playing and coaching basketball, even working one-on-one with NBA legends like Steph Curry and Joel Embiid, but he shares that in the last 10 years his life

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Ep. 78 (5/29/25): 2025 NEWMA All Star Jennifer Rome...

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2025/05/29

Jennifer Rome, who graces the cover of the 2025 NEW Manufacturing Alliance All Stars magazine, is Kate's and Ann's guest this week on NEW Manufacturing Insights. Find out more about Jennifer's career journey and why learning a trade and working in the manufacturing sector has been the right career move for her. Jennifer took the wood manufacturing course at Fox Valley Technical College and worked for a historical floor manufacturer before coming to Burger Boat four years ago. As an "art kid" growing

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Ep. 77 (5/22/25): The benefits of youth...

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2025/05/22

David Gordon, director of career and technical education with Wisconsin's Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) 7, joins Kate and Ann on this week's episode to talk about youth apprenticeship and connecting the Northeast Wisconsin business community with young talent and our region's school districts.David was honored as NEWMA's Career Pathmaker Award recipient at last year's Excellence in Manufacturing K-12 Partnership Awards. He says he sees his role as helping students have a-ha moments

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Ep. 76 (5/15/25): Jen Fietz re-imagines Imaginasium...

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2025/05/15

Stoke RGA (Revenue Growth Accelerator), formerly known as Imaginasium, has officially launched its new brand with a sharp focus on helping manufacturers drive double-digit, scalable revenue growth. Built on years of hands-on experience with Midwest manufacturing companies, Stoke RGA partners with $75M+ manufacturers to align strategy, sales, marketing and operations and execute with precision.Jen Fietz, a Wisconsin-born manufacturing leader, leads Stoke RGA, and she joins co-hosts Kate Bruns of

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Ep. 75 (5/8/25): Buckley Brinkman on the future of...

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2025/05/08

Buckley Brinkman, executive director and CEO of the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing Productivity, joins Kate and Ann on this week's episode to help unpack the 2024-2025 Wisconsin Manufacturing Report, which WCMP has produced for the past four years in order to take the pulse of manufacturers across the state. He also notes how some of the results (including supply chain falling off respondents' list of top worries) may already need updating since the Trump administration has announced tariffs on

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Ep. 74 (5/1/25): Mel Butcher on building a female future

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2025/05/01

On the eve of the NEW Manufacturing Alliance's "Future of Work" Summit on succession planning, featured speaker Mel Butcher of the organization Lead to Soar, which is working to close the leadership gender gap, joins Kate and Ann on the podcast to share more about the Madison-based organization, her personal background and passions and why closing the leadership gender gap is key to creating successful succession plans.She also helps identify and explain the "missing link" in women's career

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Ep. 73 (4/24/25): Marion Body Works President Kevin...

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2025/04/24

President Kevin Ignacio of Marion Body Works joins this week's episode to talk about the 120-year-old manufacturing company that has been owned by his family since 1980. The company that started out making milk wagons now manufactures commercial van bodies, custom cabs for fire truck chassis manufacturers, all-aluminum fire apparatus and more. Kevin tells co-hosts Kate Bruns and Ann Franz about the career path that led him back to the family business he's been around with his whole life -- including

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Ep. 72 (4/17/25): Plexus Corp. CEO Todd Kelsey

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2025/04/17

This year's Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year winner in the mega category, Neenah-based Plexus Corp., is looking to step away from its former identity as the Fox Cities' best-kept secret. This week Plexus CEO Todd Kelsey joins Kate and Ann on the podcast to talk more about the company, which makes no products under its own name but is focused on building a better world through partnerships and innovation; about why Plexus is committed to the Fox Cities; and about what's next for the global

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Ep. 71 (4/10/25): STRYKER President Nicole Malson...

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2025/04/10

Nicole Malson's grandfather Fred started the aluminum fabrication company in his Appleton basement 60 years ago, and today Nicole is proud to serve as the third-generation president of STRYKER, which produces a product called Metalphoto and has major clients in the New North region. On this week's episode, Nicole shares her insights about taking over the company from her grandfather, and then her mother; on the imposter syndrome women like she can face in the manufacturing leadership chair; and why

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Ep. 70 (4/3/25): Skilling up with SkillsUSA Wisconsin

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2025/04/03

From construction to cosmetology, SkillsUSA is a student organization empowering students -- sixth grade through post-secondary -- to explore, and even master, skilled trades. Wisconsin state president Marli Novy, a 12th grader at Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School, joins Kate and Ann on this week's episode to share more about the organization and how it is helping fill the talent pipeline in a variety of industries, including manufacturing. Marli's mother, Quinn Novy, works as a coordinator for the

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Ep. 69 (3/27/25): QComp Technologies President Katie...

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2025/03/27

Katie Miner joins this week's episode to talk about OwnersEdge, the employee-owned holding company for which she has has been serving as vice president of integration, as well as QComp Technologies, the Greenville-based OwnersEdge child company of which she was recently named president. QComp creates integrated robotic systems for highly complex, end-of-line material handling in niche industries, including glass, consumer goods, non-wovens and food and beverage.Katie tells podcast co-hosts Kate

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Ep. 68 (3/20/25): Tweet Garot President Hope Voigt

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2025/03/20

Hope Voigt, who has served as chief operating officer for the De Pere-based mechanical contracting firm Tweet Garot since 2016, was recently promoted to company president. A certified public accountant with an MBA, Voigt was praised in her promotion announcement by Tweet Garot CEO Chris Howald as having been instrumental in driving operational excellence and strategic growth at the firm. Today she sits down with co-hosts Kate Bruns and Ann Franz to talk about being a woman leader in a male dominated

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Ep. 67 (3/13/25): Leveraging social media with...

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2025/03/13

Brad Cebulski, who founded the social media marketing agency BConnected LLC in 2011, is this week's guest on NEW Manufacturing Insights and shares what he has learned about marketing since his time as a college student leading initiatives for the American Marketing Association. Cebulski acknowledges social media has long been one of industry's most ignored marketing channels, as well as one of the hardest to keep up with -- particularly the sites' ever-changing and complicated algorithms, as well as

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Ep. 66 (3/6/25): An exploration of time with John K....

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2025/03/06

1994 Olympic silver medalist John K. Coyle joins Kate and Ann on this week's episode to talk about his presentation at the NEW Manufacturing Alliance's quarterly membership meeting, which was held this morning in Manitowoc. Coyle has dedicated 10 years of his life since leaving speed skating to the study of chronoception, which refers to time perspective.He started his work following a meditation on the tenths and even hundredths of seconds that separate elite racers and making the common

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Ep. 65 (2/27/25): Easy Being Green with SBC's Christa...

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2025/02/27

Christa Kananen is associate director of the Sustainable Business Council, formerly known as the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council, the 18-year-old organization that became an independent nonprofit organization in January after operating as part of WMEP Manufacturing Solutions since 2019. She joined NEW Manufacturing Insights to discuss how SBC supports businesses, especially manufacturers in Wisconsin, in their sustainability efforts. In her role as associate director, Kananen oversees

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Ep. 64 (2/20/25): Pierce Manufacturing President Bob...

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2025/02/20

This week's episode of the NEW Manufacturing Insights podcast features an interview with Pierce Manufacturing President Bob Schulz, sponsored by Wisconsin Public Service. Schulz shares the joys and challenges of running one of the Fox Valley's most beloved manufacturers and highlights the company's award-winning efforts to engage the next-generation workforce. He also reflects on the special significance of the company's life-saving work, especially against the backdrop of the recent wildfire

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Ep. 63 (2/13/25): Hope and Help Together

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2025/02/13

Pheonah Kisembo and Hilary Haskell from the nonprofit organization Hope and Help Together, which works to support immigrant and refugee populations by facilitating resources and relationships in Northeast Wisconsin, are this week's podcast guests. On the heels of a lunch and learn presentation to the NEW Manufacturing Alliance earlier this week, Pheonah and Hilary sit down with NEW Manufacturing Insights co-hosts Ann Franz and Kate Bruns, along with Insight editor Amelia Compton Wolff, who wrote

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Ep. 62 (2/6/25): Alex Lawton and the "World's Greatest"

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2025/02/06

This Saturday at 1 p.m., Bloomberg Television will feature the 150-year legacy of De Pere's The Lawton Standard Company on an episode of "World's Greatest." And on this episode of NEW Manufacturing Insights, sponsored by Wisconsin Public Service, fifth-generation CEO Alex Lawton gives a preview, shares the company's history, and provides his best leadership insights on running a multigenerational heavy manufacturing company.

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Ep. 61: On family and fiberglass, with Ben and Amy...

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2025/01/30

Ben and Amy Bertram had never before owned a business when they decided to buy Fiberglass Solutions in 2018. Since that time, the Bertrams have grown the company from two to 20 employees and relocated from a 9,000-square-foot facility in Green Bay to a 34,000-square-foot plant in Ashwaubenon.On this week's episode, sponsored by Werner Electric Supply, Ben and Amy talk about the challenges and rewards of operating a family business, why they love Green Bay and all the interesting things made from

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Ep. 60 (1/23/25): Electrifying the future of work...

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2025/01/23

Dan Shea, chief operating officer of electrical contractor Shea Electric and Communications, joins co-hosts Kate Bruns of Insight on Manufacturing and Ann Franz of the Northeast Wisconsin Manufacturing Alliance on the 60th episode of NEW Manufacturing Insights, sponsored by Werner Electric Supply.Dan tells the co-hosts the history of his business, which specializes in low-voltage projects and dates back to 2006. He shares how his business philosophies have led him to embrace youth apprenticeship as

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