Making business improvement predictable and repeatable

Praxare bridges the gap between the results leaders need and what teams are equipped to deliver.

What if improvement was actually continuous?

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For most organizations, a KPI goal is a number to hit, a metric to report, a target to strive toward. They treat it like a finish line that they fall across each year, exhausted.

The most high-performing companies in the world know something different. It’s not a finish line but a jumping off point for next year’s record performance in a race that’s just getting started.

Key Performance creates capability and repeatable results.

So you can run that race, and win. While you can’t cut and paste the systems these great companies use, you can build your own with the foundational tools of Key Performance.

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What if the “I” in KPI stood for ideas?

Toyota is the most well-known continuous improvement company. Many authors and consultants claim to know the secret to their success: their Production System, Kaizen Culture, Kata Culture or respect for people. While that’s all true, the idea is the common denominator. Not only their ability to surface those ideas but to implement most of them.

This doesn’t work because they have smarter people. It works because they developed this capability through the practice of improvement, building a system over time that makes people excited to contribute, be heard, and see their thinking turn into real results.

This is the culture Key Performance creates.

When your team has a reliable process for generating, evaluating, and acting on ideas, KPIs no longer feel like just a metric on a page or a threat to your career but evidence of your ability to improve. High performance becomes a natural outcome for teams that are motivated and empowered to get better at getting better.

Tom Mathis has worked for some of the world’s most recognizable companies, during their most impressive runs.

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As an expert practitioner and master coach, Tom has three decades of experience with the systems they used to achieve transformational results like:

General Electric (GE) → 630% stock increase

Danaher → 400% stock increase

Milliken → 400% results improvement

GE Aerospace → 800% stock increase

How can your company achieve results like this? Through Key Performance.

Key Performance Course

Ways we can work together:

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1. Key Performance Courses

Every business is a complex collection of processes, and the front line leaders are the real experts in how they run. Key Performance doesn't tell you how to run your business. We bring proven techniques that leverage the expertise your team already has, giving them the system to continuously exceed expectations.

Explore the Key Performance Course

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2. Speaking & Workshops

Every presentation meets your team where they are with a fresh message that reinvigorates personal ownership. Your teams leave motivated to "get better at getting better.”

3. Transformation Curation (aka Leadership Coaching)

Building a business system or embarking on a lean journey comes with a complex set of tools and techniques. It requires leadership that is significantly different than what is common. Your team will need expertise and experience to inform the path that leads to the quickest value and coaching for leaders that need to quickly adapt their style in order to change the culture.

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Tom has spent his career inside some of the world's most recognized companies as a leader, practitioner and developer of the very systems that drove their most significant periods of growth.

Working alongside legendary managers like Larry Culp and Jack Welch, advising leaders from the White House to the heights of industry, Tom serves as a Senior Advisor helping employee owners drive change at scale.