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Unlocking Your
Organization’s Full Potential

By engaging, aligning, and empowering your workforce, KES Global Advisors can help unlock your organization’s full potential to drive sustainable improvements for your business.

What Our Clients Say

"Kevin has been a trusted advisor for me for over 15 years. He and his teams have helped facilitate a number of employee strategic programs for me over the years and to date, every one of those programs has not only delivered on the original goals but have been sustained over time. Most recently Kevin and his team have helped Marathon implement a corporate wide, employee led strategic improvement effort for refining that is truly owned by our employees and delivering real value to all aspects of our business."

Kevin Bogard
SVP Refining, Marathon Petroleum

"I strongly recommend working with Kevin and his KES Global Advisors company. My experience as a client working together with Kevin and his team has been unique. The capacity and strategy of Kevin to fully let the client realize its goals is impressive. Immediate results are there showing benefits for the companies as implementation takes place. Best practices is the daily thinking."

Rubén Vásquez
Supervisor at Halliburton

"KES is a trusted and valued partner for SPP. Over the past 4 years, they have supported a fundamental change in how we develop and execute our site strategy. Changing from a top down to bottoms up ownership of our strategic initiative has been a game changer. This approach, guided by KES, fortified our strategic initiative by leveraging the knowledge, ideas, and energy of all employees, not just a select few leaders. The resulting alignment and ownership we see across the site supports our continued growth and improvement."

Holly Jackson
GM, Marathon Petroleum

"For several years, KES has consistently demonstrated an ability to facilitate discussion on strategy which led to successful results with vision, strategy and tactics for SPP. KES possesses a unique talent to guide discussion to coalesce what are often complex problem statements and distill ideas into cultivated solutions."

Josh Mallonee
Product Control Manager, Marathon Petroleum

"I have worked with KES professionals across multiple Marathon Petroleum sites and have been witness to the individualized approach they take to understand each site's key strategic opportunities, and focus the local teams on evaluating and overcoming hurdles to achieving their potential. The ground-up methodology taken by KES ensures ownership of the vision, tactics and strategies from the individual contributor to the GM, long after KES has completed their part of the engagement."

Bob Lawrence
Controller Refining, Marathon Petroleum

"I have had the opportunity to work with Kevin and his team at KES on two separate strategic visioning efforts over the last 6 years. Kevin's ability to align leadership teams and the broader organization is exceptional. His strategic vision ensures that every level of the site work cohesively toward shared goals, driving impactful long-term results. He excels at engaging employees throughout the organization, empowering them to lead change initiatives effectively. It has been a pleasure working with his organization."

David Leaver
VP Refining, Marathon Petroleum

"I have had the pleasure to work with KES Global Advisors over the last 18 months. I believe the biggest tool or change that Kevin has brought to Salt Lake City is a positive move in our employees trusting our leadership and our leadership trusting in our employees. In building trust throughout our facility, employees now feel comfortable to bring up new issues and or ideas for improvements without the fear of judgement. This has significantly brought up the site's morale and desire to be a high performing culture."

Brock Carter
Strategy Program Lead, Marathon Petroleum
KES Global Advisors Approach

Our Approach

Recognizing that every client is unique, we tailor each engagement to address specific needs and challenges. With decades of global experience in the oil, gas, and chemicals sectors, we facilitate employee-led improvement and capability enhancement programs, integrating practical guidance and support to drive alignment and ensure sustainable results.

What We Do

Transforming Leadership into Performance

Employee-Led Strategic Improvement
Facilitating Real Ownership and Alignment
Creating real ownership and alignment can be messy, but it is essential for true employee engagement. KES Global Advisors embraces this process, helping employees design and deliver strategic improvement programs that create lasting change.
Organizational Change & Alignment
Creating Sustainable Change
Leading change is complex, especially in industrial settings. We help clients design and lead effective change programs, providing guidance and support to ensure the full value of targeted programs is realized.
Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
Driving Leadership Effectiveness
Working with our clients, KES Global Advisors designs leadership development programs ranging from one-off training sessions to longer-term programs. Our approach integrates developmental activities with organizational improvement efforts to provide a practical learning environment that drives targeted changes to organizational performance.
Experiential Knowledge Capture
Turning Experience into Insight
We work with our clients to help them design and implement experiential knowledge capture programs that mitigate the impacts of the experience drain and help optimize operations by turning experience into actionable, real-time insights.
Rapid Capability Development
Enhancing Plant Operator Capability
Blended learning that actively engages the employee can accelerate capability development, ensuring employees become truly competent in their roles. We design and develop programs that blend various training methods to deliver immediate business impact.
Digital Operational Excellence
Making Digital Transformation Practical
Digital transformation changes how people work, not just the technology they use. We help our clients design and implement programs that align with operational excellence improvement efforts to deliver sustainable results and create a natural adoption mechanism for targeted employees.

About Us

Our Company

Our team of experts, with decades of global experience in the oil, gas, and chemicals sectors, can help your teams drive performance improvement that enhances the safe, reliable and profitable operation of your facilities.


We approach every engagement as a partnership, with the end goal being to create and recognize significant and sustainable value.

Our Mission

Our mission is simple — to add value by creating sustainable improvements in business performance. This commitment extends to every interaction, from the first meeting to the final project closeout.

Our Commitment

Our passion for helping companies realize their employees' full potential drives us. As a trusted advisor, our core focus is adding value to our clients in every interaction.

We believe that focusing on our clients and their needs creates a business based on relationships sustained over decades.

Insights

Our Perspective

We know how important it is to see other perspectives, and for that reason we freely share ours here.

White Papers by KES Global Advisors

Translating Motivation into Performance

When looking at leveraging the value of an organization’s workforce, you are effectively considering the value of changing on-the-job behaviors of the employees to drive positive changes in business performance.

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White Papers by KES Global Advisors

The Value of Digital Transformation

The key to getting the most out of the technology available today is to ensure that the technology being utilized fits into an overall plan for an organization that not just aligns and enables the various core work processes or enables completely new work processes or practices but ensures that the organizational capabilities are developed to fully support the utilization of that technology.

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White Papers by KES Global Advisors

Intentional Leadership

General thinking is that leaders are always intentional and purposeful. However, many, if not most, leaders are reactionary and opportunistic, and while there is nothing wrong with those leadership styles and at times these are good tools for the kit, real and lasting change requires intentional leadership.

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