Unlock Your Organization’s Critical Leverage
Performance begins with disciplined leadership, engaged teams, and a focus on the critical few levers that matter most.
Welcome to Critical Leverage LLC
At Critical Leverage LLC, we help organizations improve performance by developing leaders, strengthening execution, and building healthy cultures where people do meaningful work.
With more than 30 years of real-world leadership experience—from the plant floor to enterprise executive roles—we know that exceptional results come from clarity, discipline, and pulling the right levers.
There are no secret sauces.
Just leaders who know what matters and teams who execute with consistency.
What we do at Critical Leverage LLC
Develop High-Performing Leaders
Strengthen Operational Execution
Strengthen Operational Execution
Build confident, accountable leaders who model world-class behaviors and positively influence teams.
Strengthen Operational Execution
Strengthen Operational Execution
Strengthen Operational Execution
Improve performance through fundamentals, discipline, clear routines, and annual planning that ties strategy to action.
Build Healthy, Engaged Cultures
Strengthen Operational Execution
Build Healthy, Engaged Cultures
Create environments where people understand expectations, feel connected to the work, and take ownership of results.
THE CRITICAL LEVERAGE APPROACH
Many organizations work hard, yet struggle to move performance in a meaningful or sustained way. The problem isn’t effort—it’s focus.
We help organizations:
- Identify and activate the critical few levers that drive disproportionate results
- Build leadership behaviors that cascade across teams
- Establish execution discipline through fundamentals
- Engage every team member in meaningful work
- Strengthen alignment around what matters most
Our approach is practical, grounded, and proven.
No jargon. No theory. No “program of the month.”
Just disciplined leadership and operational clarity.
About the founder
Tony Ramm
Founder & Principal Consultant, Critical Leverage LLC
Tony is an experienced manufacturing executive known for transforming underperforming operations, developing leaders, and building organizations capable of delivering world-class results. His career spans senior leadership roles across plywood, OSB, MDF, particleboard, lumber, engineered wood products, and multi-site operations.
He founded Critical Leverage LLC to help organizations focus on what truly drives performance—and to develop leaders who can pull those levers with clarity and discipline.
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Let’s explore how Critical Leverage can support your goals.
