Episode 45

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19th Aug 2024

Cultivating Empathy in Manufacturing Leadership with Marilyn Rosa-Green

In this episode, host Lisa Ryan welcomes Marilyn Rosa-Green, an executive coach and strategist specializing in food and beverage manufacturing, to discuss the essential role of empathy in leadership within the manufacturing industry.

Lessons Learned:

1. The Importance of Reframing and Nurturing Oneself: Marilyn emphasizes the importance of reframing and nurturing oneself to live a more fulfilling life, highlighting the different relationships with mental health. She shares her personal experience of caring for a brother with severe brain injury and the impact on emotional management.

2. Investing in Well-Being and Resisting Change: Marilyn underlines the significance of investing in well-being and resisting change, both for oneself and the team, to address challenges in manufacturing environments.

3. Fostering Better Communication and Relationships: Key themes for fostering better communication and relationships within the team include self-awareness, understanding core values and motivation, consistent and constant communication, and being visible and collaborative.

4. Self-Compassion and Reenergizing: Marilyn emphasizes self-compassion and reenergizing as better ways to approach employee self-care, shedding light on the importance of training and self-care for leaders and employees in the manufacturing industry.

Actionable Ideas for Leaders:

- Actively provide resources and education for mental health discussions in the workplace.

- Offer proactive measures and support for employees' mental well-being.

- Demonstrate empathy and support employees in emotional situations such as bereavement or family reasons.

- Incorporate empathy in leadership styles to better support frontline workers' mental health and well-being.

- Leverage empathy effectively to increase productivity and build employee loyalty.


This conversation illuminates the imperative need for empathy in manufacturing leadership. Through personal experiences, expert insights, and actionable strategies, leaders in the manufacturing industry can foster a culture of empathy, ultimately creating more supportive, productive, and successful teams.


Remember to connect with Marilyn Rosa-Green on LinkedIn for further discussions and insights on cultivating empathy in manufacturing leadership.

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Lisa Ryan

As a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), an award-winning speaker and author of ten books, Lisa Ryan, CSP, works with her clients to develop employee and client engagement initiatives and strategies that keep their top talent and best clients from becoming someone else’s.
Lisa’s expertise includes: strengthening workplace culture, improving employee engagement, increasing customer retention, and initiating gratitude strategies (“Grategies”) for personal and professional benefit. Lisa’s participants enjoy her high energy, enthusiastic delivery and quick wit and they leave the session with ideas they are committed to acting on immediately to make positive workplace culture changes.
Lisa costars in two films with other experts including Jack Canfield of “Chicken Soup for the Soul.” She is the Past-President of the National Speakers Association, Ohio Chapter and holds an MBA from Cleveland State University.

Relevant Experience

• Keynote, breakout or workshop speaker at more than 100 national and international conferences
• Thirteen years of industrial marketing and sales experience, including seven years in the welding industry – and yes, she does weld
• Host of “Elevate Your Engagement Levels: What You Need to Know” on the Elite Expert Network and the C-Suite Network
• Creator of “The Seven Mistakes Managers Make to Crush Company Culture” video series
• Best-selling author of ten books, including “Manufacturing Engagement: 98 Proven Strategies to Attract and Retain Your Industry’s Top Talent”
• Award-winning speaker