William Harvey
The Org Doc | Diagnosing what’s really stopping your organization from learning | OD • CI • AI
- Role
- Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives at Michelman
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About William Harvey
I’ve stood on plant floors at 2am trying to figure out why a system that looked right on paper was producing the wrong results. The answer was almost never the process. It was almost always the conditions the process was living inside.That question has shaped everything I do professionally. I work at the intersection of organizational development, continuous improvement, and AI-augmented leadership, diagnosing what’s really stopping organizations from learning and building the conditions that make transformation durable.Most improvement initiatives stall because the human infrastructure underneath them was never built. Strategy fragments when structure and daily behavior pull in different directions. Change stalls when leaders inherit initiatives nobody helped them own. I’ve watched this pattern repeat across manufacturing and specialty chemical environments for over two decades, and I’ve spent that same time learning how to interrupt it.My operational background spans plant management, multi-site leadership, and strategic program ownership across startup, stabilization, and transformation environments. I’ve led teams through sustained improvements in safety, quality, productivity, and cost by building systems where the right behaviors become the path of least resistance. I measure success by how little heroics are required to maintain results.The discipline I bring to this work didn’t start in a boardroom or a university. It started in the Marine Corps, where I learned that structure, precision, and accountability aren’t constraints on people. They’re conditions that let people perform at their highest level. That belief stays with me.Outside of work I’m a devoted husband, father of four, a 49ers faithful fan, and someone who does his best thinking on a morning walk or a late night campfire. I take leadership seriously because the decisions made at the top of a system shape thousands of choices downstream, most of them invisible to the people who made the original call.
Experience
Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives
Jan 2026 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US
Lead enterprise-level strategic initiatives by integrating cross-functional workstreams, aligning priorities, and translating strategy into disciplined execution that delivers measurable impact
Education
Lakota East High School
High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program
1997 — 1998
United States Marine Corps
Recruit Training, Parris Island, Military Applied Sciences
2001 — 2001
Northern Kentucky University
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Educational Leadership
2016 — 2019
United States Marine Corps
Ordnance Logistics Management Technical Course, Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management
2001 — 2001
American Public University System
Master of Arts (MA), Business Management: Organizational Leadership
2013 — 2015
American Public University System
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business Management
2007 — 2009
New Richmond High School
High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program
1998 — 2001
Skills
- Six Sigma
- Change Management
- Team Building
- Continuous Improvement
- Operations Management
- Manufacturing
- Lean Manufacturing
- Supply Chain Management
- Leadership
- Customer Service
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