The conference “CMC4Ukraine. Management consulting for manufacturing enterprises: partnership of the strong ones”
The leaders of manufacturing enterprises from all over Ukraine, management consultants and our dear partners – representatives of the USAID Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine, gathered together in one place.
“I am definitely not the key speaker today. You are the key speakers. For us it is really important to hear you saying that the projects we are implementing are useful for you”, - with those words Olesya Zaluska, the Head of the USAID Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine, addressed the participants of the conference. “Today we, together with you, form the needs of business and I am encouraging you not to settle with something that is not right for you. You are already strong today. And the topic – “Partnership of the strong ones” – is suitable in the context.”
Ater the period of time when we were working online for several months, owners, leaders and specialized teams of 40 manufacturing enterprises, who are employers for about 4800 workers, received professional consulting support. The structure of the implemented consulting projects is the following:
17 – marketing, sales and export
12 – operations management
7 – financial management and fundraising
6 – strategic management
1 – personnel management
Live meetings, open concept of sharing the presentations, the achievements, some new requests, expectations and embrace – all this is the description of the final conference of the project.
“This conference is not to talk about CMC-Ukraine. Here today the Ukrainian business speaks”, - Olga Trofymova, the President of the community, the initiator and head of the project “CMC4Ukraine. Recovery and development of manufacturing enterprises”, pointed out in the opening speech.
We said – and we did. During two thematic panel discussions “Partnership in the consulting project from the point of view of heads of manufacturing enterprises” an active and genuine exchange of lessons on overcoming challenges and of achievements of leaders of machinery and textile industry enterprises took place. The following participants were speaking about relevant and expected:
Pavlo Kamenskyi, director, “Systema-Invest” LLC,
Oleskandr Gulya, director, “Kotloturboprom” LLC,
Eduard Lebedev, director, “Aton Service” LTD,
Yulia Tatenko, development director, “UkrLed” LLC,
Oleg Savchuk, director, “TRIBO” LLC,
Vyacheslav Voytko, commercial director, “K.tex” LTD,
Inna Kalekina, director, “Varno” LLC,
Anastasia Herasyuta, director, “Benprof” LLC,
Oksana Baytsar, acting director, “Navigara 4.5.0.”
Powerful leaders from Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Irpin, Bila Tserkva, Lviv, Kramatorsk, Rivne region also shared their experience of cooperation with the consultants of the CMC-Ukraine community, emphasized our colleagues’ high level of professionalism, expressed gratitude for the work together and expectations for continuing the partnership.
We are grateful for the trust to the team of the USAID Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine and courageous Ukrainian entrepreneurs.
We are proud of this cooperation.
We continue working.
The conference took place as a part of the Project “CMC4Ukraine. Recovery and development of manufacturing enterprises”, which is being implemented by the management consultants of the All-Ukrainian Association of Management Consultants CMC-Ukraine with the support of the USAID Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine.