About Us

About us

Executive Summary

Our organization has conducted workshops since 1993 for companies all over the world from a variety of industries including: chemicals, oil and gas, mining, tire manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, pipelines, paper, utilities, steel, aluminum, specialty metals, facilities management and more. 

Our simulations give site personnel, from the front-line to the c-suite, a better understanding of the journey to improved performance: increasing throughput, enhancing equipment reliability and operating in a manner that is safe for both employees and the environment – all while making a profit for the company.   We go beyond just telling them about or showing them your reliability plans.  We give them a chance to participate in your reliability plans, a highly memorable experience that brings true understanding and most importantly, enthusiastic buy-in.  They will leave the two-day workshop seeing the big picture, understanding their role in the overall process and ready to go beyond grudging compliance to excited participation.  And through our Action Team process, they will put what they learned into practice, not months, weeks or even days later but right away. 

Our experienced facilitators have spent many years navigating the challenging terrain of reliability improvement and organizational change. By focusing on organization-wide defect elimination practices, they help companies drive sustainable improvements resulting in long-lasting success. 

Conducting Workshops Since 1993

Our Team

Meet our leadership team

Michelle Henley

Principal
Michelle Henley is President of TMG Frontline Solutions which acquired the simulations developed by Ledet Enterprises Inc, including The Manufacturing Game®, The OilPro Game® and The Defect Elimination Game® in 2014. Prior to that, she worked with Ledet Enterprises Inc since its inception helping hundreds of organizations navigate the difficult waters of organizational change using game-based simulations.  Her enthusiastic facilitation style along with the innovative workshop design bring the workforce (even the most skeptical among them) energetically onboard with their site's reliability improvement efforts.  Co-authoring  various articles and the book Level 5 - Leadership at Work, the sequel to the popular Don't Just Fix It, Improve It, Michelle has become a thought leader on the emerging and often misunderstood topic of defect elimination. Prior to joining forces with Ledet Enterprises Inc, Michelle began her career with KPMG Peat Marwick in San Francisco, CA. then worked for a real estate management and development firm in the Washington, DC area and formed her own company, which provided computer programming services. She has a B.B.A. from the University of Texas—Austin in Accounting and Information Services.
Michelle Henley
Principal

David Henley

Principal
David Henley has been assisting The Manufacturing Game® staff in many capacities since 2007 including workshop delivery, marketing, sales and business development strategies. After many years working for a large towing company with inland and offshore equipment, David attained his accreditation as a Category 3 SIRE Inspector and started Marine Compliance, LLC (MARCOM) in 2005 in order to meet the growing need for third party Vetting Inspectors in the marine transportation industry. This need became apparent to him in his previous role as a manager for a newly created department of Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE). His experience in overseeing the company safety program and his duties as the Emergency Response Administrator gave him an understanding of the challenges of keeping up with ever changing rules, regulations and expectations. His experience in working with auditors performing Management Reviews for the major oil companies gave him first-hand insight into the even higher standards being set by the majors. As a Barge Superintendent and TAIP committee member, he assisted in the development of the U.S. Coast Guard approved Tankbarge Alternate Inspection Protocol (TAIP) and ensured maintenance and compliance of all one hundred fifty company vessels. Prior to this, David was involved in many facets of the oil and gas industry such as, production operations and maintenance, industrial services, emergency response.
David Henley
Principal

Winston P. Ledet

Founder
Winston Ledet, is a leading consultant and internationally known workshop instructor on proactive manufacturing and maintenance. He is also one of the authors of the book, “Don’t Just Fix It, Improve It!” His work is focused on manufacturing organizations interested in becoming learning organizations. He has 27 years of experience with E. I. DuPont de Nemours serving in a variety of assignments in research, technical, works engineering, operations, human resources/safety and maintenance. He is one of the creators of The Manufacturing Game® as part of his work at DuPont. Winston formed his own consulting firm, Ledet Enterprises, Inc, in 1993 using The Manufacturing Game® to help drive improvement efforts in process industries as well as discreet part manufacturing sites around the world. He has extensive capability in System Dynamics modeling, proactive manufacturing and large-scale organizational change strategies. Ledet Enterprises, Inc. has developed and been a participant in the development of several other simulations with a focus on improvement of safety and reliability through organizational culture change. Winston did his undergraduate work at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of Texas – Austin.
Winston P. Ledet
Founder

June Block Ledet

Founder
June Block Ledet was employed for 10 years by the University of Houston—Victoria as Assistant Director of the Petroleum Training Institute. In 1994 she joined Winston P. Ledet at Ledet Enterprises, Inc. (The Manufacturing Game®) as Vice President of Operations including training, scheduling, marketing, and sales. Her experience in both positions involves implementing training programs for companies wanting to empower their workers, to improve their skills, and develop a cross functional approach to the way they work. She did her undergraduate work at Sophie Newcomb College (Tulane University) in Sociology and Psychology and graduate work at the University of Texas—Austin.
June Block Ledet
Founder