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- safeHAND Systems provides electrical safety training and compliance consulting, helping commercial and industrial facilities align their programs with NFPA 70E standards.
- MotorDoc LLC is a veteran-owned firm specializing in electric motor diagnostics, electrical signature analysis, and continuous condition monitoring for industrial and commercial motor systems.
- Alpha Robotics delivers hands-on FANUC and Yaskawa Motoman robotics training for everyone from equipment operators to engineers, at their facility or yours.
- Powered Solutions LLC is Terry Thorne's manufacturers representative firm out of Louisville, Kentucky, bringing smaller reliability-focused lines to plants across Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Every line on the list earns its place the same way, by increasing the time a plant runs between failures.
- SSGT Business Development is a veteran-owned business development company running leadership and sales training workshops, plus coaching for veterans and transitioning service members.
Wayward Leaders® is a veteran-owned VFD training practice. We teach maintenance teams and plant electricians to install, commission, and troubleshoot variable frequency drives correctly, in person, at the plant that owns the equipment, anywhere in the United States.
Every class ends with a scored competency assessment. The plant gets a way to prove what each technician can do, not a roster of who sat in the room.
The instruction is field-trained. It is drawn from nearly 8,000 VFD, power, and motor documents and from more than 750 commissioned drives captured through personal field experience and data collection. Carl Lee Tolbert, PhD, CMRP, and ATD Master Trainer™, leads it. He has delivered more than 5,000 hours of VFD instruction across 30 years and trained 8,000 industrial professionals, from International Paper to the U.S. Navy.
The premise is simple: VFDs do not fail. Installations fail them. The curriculum is built backward from that.
Installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, and fault diagnosis guides are published openly at waywardleaders.com.