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Cheryl Thompson Advisory

Turn manufacturing know-how into systems your team can actually use.

I help manufacturers modernize the documents, training, workflows, and follow-up systems that keep operations moving, using practical AI where it helps and never where it doesn't.

Not your call to make? Send this to the person whose call it is.

You know the problems. They are the ones running your operation today.

The same RFQ rebuilt from scratch every time. SOPs nobody reads. Training packages that do not transfer to the floor. New hires taking months to become productive when it should take weeks. Tribal knowledge walking out the door at every retirement. PPAP packages reassembled by hand. Status reports built from memory and chased down by email. Follow-up systems that depend on someone remembering.

These are not technology problems. They are systems-and-knowledge problems. That is what I solve, using practical AI where it makes the work go faster.

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The Six Systems

The six systems behind how work gets done.

Most operational friction traces back to one of six systems behind how work gets done. Three build your people's capability. Three move the work. Fix the one with the loudest pain, and the rest gets easier.

01Training and workforce capability
02Onboarding and readiness
03Knowledge transfer
04Documentation and technical content
05Program and project execution
06Communication and coordination
How I Work With People

Three ways to engage. Built around where you are.

55 MINUTES · VIRTUAL · $500

AI Working Session

Bring the thing on your plate. The stalled project, the process that eats your week, the task you keep pushing to tomorrow. We work on it together, live.

You leave with a personalized way to handle it and a roadmap for what's next. Everything you leave with is yours to keep.

A half-day option is available for leaders who want to go deeper.

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CUSTOM SCOPE · 2 WEEKS TO MULTI-MONTH

Modernization Projects

Modernize the systems that keep work moving: training, onboarding, documentation, program execution, communication, and knowledge transfer.

From focused two-week projects to larger organizational engagements.

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Now Forming
6 WEEKS · SMALL GROUP · FOUNDING COHORT

The Six Systems Sprint

Six weeks, six systems. Three people from your company join a small cross-company cohort and build, week by week, the six systems behind how your work gets done. Everything they build is yours to keep.

For anyone who runs operations.

Founding cohort rate: $2,997 per company, for a team of three.

See the week-by-week plan →

"Worth every minute. Practical AI exercises, complete with prompts, examples, and insights that strengthen how we lead and learn in real time."

Verna, Learning Leader

Additional Ways to Learn

FREE · WEEKLY · FOR INDIVIDUALS

AI Learning Labs

A free 60-minute live session for individuals. Plenty of people have watched AI demos and collected tips. Far fewer have sat down and built something with it. That's what these labs are for: practical builds you can use at work and at home, the same day.

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CUSTOM · TEAMS AND LEADERS

Team & Leadership Workshops

Practical AI capability for your team, built around the work people actually do. Plus leadership development and keynote speaking.

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What I Believe

The number one reason teams don't modernize the systems holding them back is the same thing I hear every week: "I don't have time."

Modernization is the investment that creates the time. But you have to treat it like any other system that matters. Scope it. Schedule it. Show up. Have structure and someone to be accountable to. That is what most operational improvement misses.

I have never felt more organized, more confident, or more capable in my work than I do right now. That's not a sales pitch. That's my actual experience. And it's what I want for every leader and team I work with.

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Cheryl Thompson
Cheryl Thompson
Worked her way up from the floor at Ford into global manufacturing leadership at Ford and American Axle.