Steven Stegman

About Steven Stegman

Entrepreneurial and driven leader with proven expertise as a technical director providing corporate leadership and organizational development, market insight, strategy development and planning, virtual and global team building, program planning and management, process improvement, requirements development, data generation and analysis, technology identification and integration. Sought out for ability to think on feet and understand the chessboard. High ROI problem solver focusing on the needs of customers and colleagues. Leadership Good leadership is like good stage lighting. You don’t know it’s there until it’s done poorly. You know how when you go to a bad stage production, when the stage lighting is right, you only recognize the bad acting and bad dialogue? But when the lighting is bad, you can’t even pay attention to the bad acting because you are distracted by the actor chasing the poorly aimed spotlight around the stage. Or you are commenting on how the actors look like zombies because the lighting hue makes them look like they’re dead, even before the bad reviews! Good leadership is very similar in that, when its good, good things happen “naturally”. When it’s bad, you can’t help but recognize that “the train has left the rails” and it feels like no one is driving the train. This is not to say the good leaders are operating “behind the scenes”. On the contrary, good leaders are out front. In best cases, very far out front. A good leader, guided by the mission “star”, is reconnoitering the landscape and identifying and clearing the right path for the team to travel. Assessing risks, recognizing opportunities and ultimately leading the team up the path where results are delivered most effectively. The good leader is communicating with the team, giving them an honest assessment of the path ahead, reminding them of the mission, encouraging them to continue to do their best, and praising them for a job well done. When leadership is executed to a high level of competency, the team’s progress is viewed as an almost natural process, with the leader barely visible. When good leadership is absent, the high visibility that the team’s failures create, shines like bad lighting on a bad stage production. Don’t look for good leadership in the bright lights. Instead, look behind the scenes of a very good production!

Experience

1. Senior Project Manager

   Haemonetics

   Mar 2023 — Present · Clinton, PA, US

   As a leading provider of blood separation and diagnostic tools, the Clinton site is the center of manufacturing excellence for the blood analyzer and blood separation IVDR Class II disposables.

Education

• University of Phoenix

  MBA, Business Administration

  2001 — 2003

• Penn State University

  BSMET, Mechanical Engineering, Math

  1984 — 1989

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  MIT Sloan Executive Management Program, Managing Complex Product Development Projects

  2006 — 2006