Lever Talent, Inc.

Head of Professional Services

At Lever Talent, our mission is to help leaders realize they are capable of more than they could ever imagine. We believe individuals make a business, not the other way around, and all business is personal.

The employee-employer relationship is broken. Thankfully, employees are gaining leverage, and the power dynamic with employers is shifting. We’re flipping the script by helping businesses lean into this shift - bringing humanity back to business.

We help leaders find leverage in themselves, their teams, and their strategies.

We help companies find leverage by identifying their superpowers and developing complementary processes to spur growth at scale.

We help with:

Talent Strategy: We help leaders align their people strategy to their business strategy and accelerate growth with talent optimization.

Career Development: We give people the training and coaching they need crush their current job and achieve their goals.

Leadership Communities: We bring growth-minded leaders together to share ideas, learn from each other, and grow.

Detailed Services Overview:
- Team Design & Strategy Alignment Consulting
- Hiring Process and Strategy Consulting
- Management Training
- Leadership Coaching
- Team Building Workshops
- Career Development Communities
- Employee Engagement / Performance 
- The Predictive Index Software sales and client service - we are a PI Certified Partner.

Talent Optimization Consultant

The Predictive Index

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DriveTime

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Axon

Director, Axon Academy (Learning & Development)

Jack in the Box

Director, Jack's University

St. Jude Medical Center - Community Health Clinics

Performance Consultant

California State University, Fullerton

Teaching Associate

Academic Advisor

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Faculty Evaluator

Leverage Seeker. Talent Concierge. Executive Coach.

I am Head of Professional Services at Lever Talent, a talent strategy agency. We help people find their leverage so they can achieve more than they could have ever imagined for themselves.

Meg Patel

Elite High Performance

I specialize in building high-impact leaders who turn their teams into happy, engaged high performers that achieve their goals.  Rather than traditional leadership coaching, we blend neuroscience, mindset coaching, high-performance leadership strategies,  technology & data that provide a clear path to building a high-performing team - or to turn around an under-performing team. It’s the same way professional sports combines high-performance coaching and analytics to build a winning sports team.

High-Performance Executive Coach

Rob's Reliability Project

A podcast for reliability and maintenance people looking to better themselves both at work and at home and be entertained!  Check Rob's Reliability Project out on your favorite podcast platform (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, etc.).

Senior Reliability Engineer

Enbridge

Managed a portfolio of large pipeline valves.

Asset Management Specialist

Fluid Life

My Role Includes:

•	Providing Lubrication & Oil Analysis Audits for customers ranging in industry from mining, oil & gas, energy, manufacturing, pulp & paper and shipping
–	Training customers in reliability topics: Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA & FMECA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), Five Why’s, Criticality Analysis, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Maintenance Philosophies (Predictive, Reactive, Preventative, Proactive), Maintenance Cultures and Change Management, Asset Management and ISO 55000

•	Applied Machine Learning to increase efficiency of reviewing oil analysis samples by 78%
–	Presented findings at the RELIABILITY Conference and the SMRP Symposium - 2018

•	Investigating the impact of environmental regulations (Environmental Protection Agency’s Tier 1, 2, 3, 4 Interim & 4 Final) on exhaust gases on oil analysis results of diesel engines and the impact on diesel engine reliability
–	Article about project in International Mining Magazine: 
–	Presented findings at the International Maintenance Conference - 2015

Teck Resources Limited

Spare Parts Optimization & MRO Management – Reliability Engineer & Project Manager

•Major proactive reliability improvement project is resulting in multimillion dollar savings
•Article written in CIM Magazine about Spare Parts Optimization project in conjunction with University of Toronto:
http://magazine.cim.org/en/2013/March-April/upfront/Spare-necessities.aspx 
•	Presented findings at the International Maintenance Conference (IMC) - 2012

Component Risk Project – Reliability Specialist & Project Manager
•This major proactive reliability improvement project is resulting in multimillion dollar savings

Reliability Engineer - Mining

•	Developed cost-benefit analysis models valuing the possible construction of a female psychiatric prison in reducing recidivism rates of mentally ill female offenders
•	Constructed cost-benefit analysis models forecasting freight rail projects and environmental initiatives

Economist

Helping high-achieving leaders unlock their highest levels of performance | World-Renowned Leadership Coach | TEDx Speaker | Top 100 Most Dynamic Leader | Podcast Host | Former College Athlete

I specialize in helping leaders become high-impact individuals who turn their teams into happy, high-performing units that achieve their goals. I believe that traditional leadership coaching methods are not always enough to bring about the change that today's dynamic work environment demands. That's why I've taken a unique approach, blending together neuroscience, mindset coaching, high-performance leadership strategies with cutting-edge technology & data to provide a clear path to building a high-performing team. My goal is to provide leaders with a clear path towards building a successful and high-performing team or turning around an under-performing one. Just like how professional sports teams use a combination of high-performance coaching, technology, and analytics to build championship-winning teams, I use a similar approach to help leaders achieve their goals and lead their teams to success.

Rob Kalwarowsky

How to go from chaos to clarity

Over the last month, clarity has been the biggest challenge for my clients.
Chaos and uncertainty are ramping up the internal noise. That voice telling you you're not good enough. The part pushing for more achievement. The one feeling like an imposter.

You have many internal parts. Just like managing your company.
That's where the Inner Boardroom exercise comes in.

You gather the misaligned executives (your internal parts) in a boardroom. You're the CEO. You facilitate a discussion between them. Then you, as the leader, choose the right direction.

I've used this with entrepreneurs and executives facing decisions like:
• How to navigate tariffs
• What to do about underperforming team members
• Whether to take a new job
• What goals to set for 2026

In all cases, internal chaos was preventing clarity.

The Inner Boardroom exercise gives you clarity and inner tranquility. Usually in one session.

Stop losing time and energy flip flopping on decisions.

Turn chaos into clarity and make better decisions more quickly.

The numbers are clear: Business uncertainty just hit levels 330% higher than in late 2024—surpassing the peak of the pandemic.

Most leaders react by doing what their brain tells them: They freeze.
They cut budgets, they hoard cash, and they wait for stability. This is the amygdala hijack—a simple threat response that shuts down logic and hands your competitors a massive, once-in-a-lifetime advantage.

Did you know the few companies that substantially increased profits during downturns did so at a rate 47% higher than during stable periods? (Think Kellogg's in the Great Depression or Domino's during the Great Recession).

The winners aren't smarter. They're just calmer.

The chaos isn't going away. The real threat isn't external; it's internal. You can't control the market, but you can control your response.

My new article breaks down the neuroscience of the "freeze response" and the simple, 30-second action you must take to interrupt it and join the 11% who win.

The NFIB Small Business Uncertainty Index hit 104 in February 2025. That's the second highest reading ever recorded. The Economic Policy Uncertainty I

Open article: 330% More Uncertainty: The Data-Backed Reason 89% of Leaders Will Freeze (and How to Be the 11% Who Win) by Rob Kalwarowsky • 4 min read

330% More Uncertainty: The Data-Backed Reason 89% of Leaders Will Freeze (and How to Be the 11% Who Win)

I watched leaf cutter ants in Costa Rica for an hour.

Every single ant knew exactly where to go. The path through the jungle was worn smooth from thousands of trips. No confusion. No competing directions. Just pure alignment.

In business, I'm seeing the opposite in teams.

Leaders pulling in different directions. Departments missing goals because nobody's supporting each other. Communication has gone silent.

The chaos isn't coming from the market. It's coming from misalignment.

When your team can't agree on the direction, everything gets harder. Decisions take longer. Trust erodes. People burn out trying to figure out which way to go.

The ants get it. They align on the goal, they support each other, and they execute.

That's how work gets done.

My wife's garden can confirm the ants are effective. Maybe too effective.

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