Who We Are at Critical Leverage LLC
Who We Are
Our Mission
Our Mission
Critical Leverage LLC is a leadership and performance consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations build stronger leaders, healthier cultures, and sustainable operational results. We focus on the critical few levers that truly drive performance—leadership behaviors, execution discipline, team engagement, and mastery of the fundamentals.
We don’t believe in shortcuts, secret sauces, or complex programs.
We believe in clarity. discipline. leadership. execution.
That’s how organizations become world-class.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
Critical Leverage exists to help organizations unlock sustainable performance by building healthy organizations, developing leaders who demonstrate world-class behaviors, and executing with focus on the critical few levers that deliver the greatest results.
We envision organizations where leaders build healthy cultures, people are engaged in meaningful work, and sustainable performance is the natural result.
Our Purpose
Our Mission
Our Purpose
Organizations succeed when leaders create clarity, model the right behaviors, and engage people in meaningful work. Our purpose is to help leaders develop these capabilities so they can:
- Build alignment
- Strengthen accountability
- Improve execution
- Accelerate performance
- Enhance culture
Unlocking the critical leverage that drives sustainable performance.
how we work - our approach
Practical
Rooted in real-world experience—no jargon, no corporate fluff.
Hands-On
Hands-On
Grounded in Fundamentals
We prioritize clarity, discipline, and execution.
Focused on Outcomes
We identify and activate the levers that drive your most important results.
We design every engagement to be tailored to your specific needs, easy to adopt, and effective over the long term.
meet the founder
Tony is a seasoned manufacturing executive with more than three decades of leadership experience across plywood, OSB, veneer, MDF, particleboard, engineered wood products, and multi-site operations. His career includes plant turnarounds, large-scale organizational transformation, labor strategy leadership, and enterprise-level executive roles.
He has consistently improved performance by developing leaders, strengthening execution discipline, and building cultures where people do meaningful work.
Key highlights include:
- Leading operations, safety, environmental, human resources, and sourcing for more than 3,000 employees
- Transforming underperforming plants through leadership and fundamentals—without capital
- Delivering major cost improvements, cultural shifts, and execution alignment
- Developing leaders who progressed into roles with broader impact
- Creating strategic plans approved at the highest levels of corporate governance
Tony founded Critical Leverage LLC to help organizations focus on what truly matters and develop leaders who can engage teams for performance.
Anthony 'Tony' Ramm
Founder & Principal Consultant,
Critical Leverage LLC
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Who We Serve
We partner with organizations that are serious about:
- Improving performance
- Developing strong leaders
- Strengthening culture
- Transformational change
Industries we support include:
- Manufacturing
- Industrial operations
- Multi-site operations and corporate leadership teams
Why Choose Critical Leverage
Clients partner with Critical Leverage LLC because we offer:
- Deep real-world leadership experience
- Practical methods that work in real operations
- Clarity and focus on the critical few levers
- Hands-on coaching and support
- A grounded, no-nonsense approach
- A focus on sustainable, not temporary, improvement
We don’t deliver reports.
We develop leaders and strengthen execution.