We help leaders build the environment their business needs to thrive.
A firm built around real business.
Organizations perform when leadership, people, structure, and operations work together.
RB Elevate brings executive operating experience and advisory depth to the moments when that alignment matters most. We work with leaders to understand their environment, anticipate what is coming, and build the capabilities to meet it.
Beckie established and grew the firm through meaningful consulting relationships. Robby joined as cofounder in July 2026, adding more than 20 years of operational executive leadership. Together, they bring complementary strengths and shared depth in leadership and organizational performance.
Clarity for leaders. Practical progress for the business.
Beckie partners with executives and business owners navigating growth, change, and transformation. She brings together executive coaching, strategic planning, team development, and operational insight to help leaders turn ambition into meaningful action.
Her work connects the people side of change with the systems that make performance possible—building trust, accountability, and alignment while strengthening how the business operates.
CAREER SUMMARY
Global experience. A connected perspective.
Before founding RB Elevate, Beckie spent 15 years in executive leadership within a $4 billion global manufacturing organization. She led global operations strategy, integrated business planning, and transformation across 23 manufacturing and distribution locations.
From future vision to practical roadmaps.
Today, she helps growth-oriented manufacturers assess their current capabilities, define a future state, and establish priorities for transformation. Her work strengthens operating models, process discipline, data readiness, and organizational alignment so leaders can make informed technology and AI investment decisions.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE & IMPACT
23 sites
Led operations strategy and transformation across manufacturing and distribution locations.
Growth
Designed operating models for rapid growth and helped deliver double-digit growth.
Performance
Restored profitability and strengthened visibility into operational performance.
Flow
Helped leaders shape roadmaps for quote-to-production and customer-order processes, scheduling, and capacity decisions.
Insight
Established meaningful operating measures, clarified decision ownership, and turned fragmented data into actionable insight.
People
Built high-performing global teams and led change around shared purpose, trust, and accountability.
HOW BECKIE WORKS WITH LEADERS
Clarify
Assess the current state, define what comes next, and focus on the priorities that matter.
Align
Connect leaders, teams, operating models, and decision ownership around a shared direction.
Advance
Build practical roadmaps and develop the leadership capability to carry change forward.
Explore Beckie’s expertise & credentials
Areas of expertise
Strategic growth and planning
Team performance and leadership coaching
Organizational alignment and culture
Operational transformation and change
Supply chain and integrated business planning
Operating models and process discipline
Data readiness and operational insight
Technology and AI investment readiness
Teaching & recognition
Beckie serves as a faculty professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha, teaching operations, supply chain, and management systems in undergraduate and Executive MBA programs. She also serves on the Supply Chain Advisory Council.
Her recognitions include the Eva Jon Sperling Leadership Award, UNO Alumnus of the Year, and induction into the Hastings College Bronco Hall of Fame.
02 / COFOUNDER
Robby Simard
Operations & enterprise transformation
20+ YEARS OF LEADERSHIP
Turning strategy into disciplined execution.
Robby aligns leaders, operating systems, culture, and capital to improve how organizations perform. His leadership experience spans manufacturing, infrastructure, nonprofit services, consulting, and the U.S. Air Force.
He brings an operator’s perspective to safety, profitability, throughput, service delivery, and workforce performance—with clear ownership and practical execution at the center.
CAREER SUMMARY
Enterprise scale. Hands-on leadership.
Robby has held senior leadership roles overseeing portfolios exceeding $1 billion in revenue and $300 million in capital investment. His experience spans national and international operations, established sites, and start-ups.
Building stronger operations and teams.
He excels in planning and executing site turnarounds, developing high-performing teams, and aligning organizational design with business strategy. He brings strategic planning and disciplined execution together to strengthen performance and prepare organizations for what comes next.
SELECTED RESULTS ACROSS HIS CAREER
18%+
Year-over-year operating-profit improvement through turnaround leadership.
2×
Annual output, from $24M to $48M during a recession, with only 6% workforce growth.
40%
Top-line growth enabled through six new production lines and major facility transformation.
70%
Year-over-year improvement in safety performance, with record-low OSHA incident rates.
40% → 65%+
Productivity improvement from approximately 40%, alongside a reduction in maintenance costs of more than 35%.
60%
Reduction in union grievances; turnover fell 35% and hiring expense fell $50K. Negotiated performance-based labor terms.
ROBBY’S LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
Run
Stabilize operations, clarify ownership, and restore performance.
Transform
Align strategy, structure, leadership, and culture.
Grow
Scale capability, develop leaders, and deliver lasting value.
Explore Robby’s expertise & leadership value
Areas of expertise
Enterprise strategy and execution
Multi-site P&L leadership
Operational turnarounds
Change and culture leadership
Capital and cost management
Leadership and succession
Safety, quality, and risk
Manufacturing and supply chain
What he brings to the work
Strategic execution. Clear plans, accountability, and operating rhythms.
Operational excellence. Stronger safety, cost, quality, delivery, and capital effectiveness.
People and culture. Leadership development, succession pipelines, and high-performance teams.
Transformation. Integration, restructuring, crisis recovery, and sustained change.
SENIOR LEADERSHIP. SPECIALIZED EXPERTISE.
The problem determines the team. Not the other way around.
Beckie and Robby lead engagements and remain close to the work. When the need calls for it, RB Elevate engages additional specialists with the capabilities the situation requires.
Experienced people. Clear accountability. A team built around your business.
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