Asset Leadership Network

Laverne Deckert, Lead Chameleon at her business imaChameleon, is a driving force in the Facilities Management world, with extensive international experience in standards development and professional certification. Working for IFMA (International Facilities Management Association) and as a consultant, she has led and supported numerous committees, work groups, and advisory groups of ISO TC 267 Facilities Management, including the development of the ISO 41001, the Management System Standard for Facilities Management. Laverne will be sharing thoughts on the standards development process, the intersections of ISO 41001 and ISO 55K, and perhaps the origin of her tag line “Passion: To bring value to every encounter.”

Mark West, ABS Group Senior Director of Reliability Services, first served 8 years in the U.S Navy involved in nuclear power plants and nuclear power training. Since then, he has served in a several key reliability and maintenance positions developing processes and controls for dramatically improving productivity and profitability. At ABS Group, he is the key author of two White Papers co-published with the Asset Leadership Network. Mr. West will be sharing his lessons learned from an extensive career in asset management and how the White Papers are intended to impact the Power and Water Treatment Industries.

Mary Adams founded Smarter Companies to focus on intangible capital management in a way to address what she calls the two mega-trends impacting all organizations – 1) Rise of knowledge economy and 2) the urgency of social and environmental sustainability. Ms. Adams has promoted multi-capital models to bring long-term thinking to the private company market. Ms. Adams is the co-author of “Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization” and has been published widely.  Ms. Adams advocates a multi-reporting approach to driving profits and performance, which makes her a perfect fit for the ALN, which wants to increase discussion and understanding about intangible asset management.

Mike Aimone immediately saw the value of ISO 55000 to the nation and began supporting the Asset Leadership Network with no hesitation. It is an honor that such a distinguished person decided to be involved with the ALN. Mike has served the U.S. Department of Defense as an officer, and as an executive at the highest levels. He is still actively involved in helping the U.S. by leading the creation of a National Academy of Sciences Federal Facility Council report that is due out soon.

Kris Goly has been involved in asset management for a few decades. He was actively involved in the creation of ISO 55000 and now has the influential role of Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group contributing to rewriting the series of standards. In 2014, Mr. Goly was quoted as saying, "...those that use ISO 9000 and other management standards and good practices will find it relatively easy to implement and become compliant with ISO 55000. It could take them just a few months, maybe six or 12 months, to be fully compliant." We will learn if he feels this is still true, what key changes to look for in the revised ISO 55000, and how involvement in the US TAG can benefit an organization.

Colonel (ret.) Ronald Bordenaro's extensive career includes more than 30 years of active and reserve service in the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Because of his reserve service, Col. Bordenaro also had a full career as an educator and 8 years as the Village of South Holland Building Code Enforcer. With Masters’ Degrees in both Education and Warfare, he has been a life-long advocate for innovative approaches to asset management long before ISO 55000 standardized best practices.

Jack Kelly, ALN Board of Directors Member and ALN Senior Fellow has been a great value to the ALN – and to any organization he is involved with. It is an honor to have Mr. Kelly’s insights and ability to connect dots between the many issues he is actively involved with after leaving the OMB after 36 years of continuous service. It is an even greater honor that Mr. Kelly credits the ALN with getting him involved in international standards writing. He is passionately focused on communicating a clear message about the benefits of a structured approach to asset management and he is an excellent extemporary speaker.

Shelly Culbertson is a Senior Policy Researcher for the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, where her focus is on disaster recovery, post-conflict stabilization, innovation policy and more. She has published research on preparing for disaster recovery, which provides insight on how to plan for asset management in non-disaster times. Ms. Culbertson is the author of “The Fires of Spring: A Post-Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East (St. Martins, 2016). She has contributed opinions and articles to U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, National Interest and others. One of her articles is linked in Sources below. She has a Master’s from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and many more accomplishments and accolades.

Certified Professional Property Manager (CPPM)  

Author, instructor, speaker and content developer. Over 22 years of direct management experience in the aerospace industry as a Property Manager, Property Supervisor, Team Leader, Change Manager, Process Owner and Common ERP Project Team Leader for Fixed Asset and Government Property tracking systems. Six of the twenty two years were at the sector level and sixteen years were at the business unit level. Have led teams of subject matter experts as a Lean and Six Sigma Black Belt Project Team Leader.  

For the past ten years, have served as a U.S. Government-appointed Plant Clearance Officer. Personally responsible for the reutilization of over $1B in excess Government property over a two year period.  Frequent contributing author to the Property Professional publication of the National Property Management Association (NPMA). In August, 2018, Received a literary award at the 2018 NPMA National Educational Seminar.

Yvonne Carney is Director of Strategic Performance at WSSC Water, a public utility in Maryland that provides water and wastewater services to 1.8 million residents of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties. She is responsible for facilitating the development of WSSC Water’s Strategic Plan and champions the use of data and risk analysis to drive decision-making across the utility. Prior to WSSC Water, she was Director of Performance Improvement at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington, D.C. Ms. Carney is volunteering on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ISO 55001. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Houston and a M.S. in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin. She holds certifications in Enterprise Risk Management, Infrastructure Asset Management and Change Management.