Kentucky Center for Performance Excellence

08/11/2026

In the Beginning There Was a Problem

New Businesses encounter all types of problems - cash flow, slow sales, inventory control, and on and on. We can help. Beginning with a free assessment of your operations. Contact me to begin.

Conley Salyer
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Lexington, Kentucky

08/05/2025

Meet another of our Consultants: Dean Bondhus
Performance Improvement leader with expertise in commercial and military electronics manufacturing, avionics, telecommunications, medical and insurance industries. Innovative strategist with proven abilities in product and service design, project management, team leadership, and bottom-line performance improvement interventions. Labeled by peers and superiors as a proactive leader, instructor, mentor and coach.

Engage with us. Contact me to solve your problems
Conley Salyer
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Lexington, KY

07/29/2025

Meet Another of Our Consultants
Kathi Shrider
Kathi is a finance professional with over fifteen years of corporate leadership experience. She is an excellent problem solver adept at creating strategies for process improvement to maximize profits while maintaining compliance within regulatory requirements. She has demonstrated expertise in the following areas: GAAP and IFRS, Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Staff Development, Internal Auditing, Risk Management, Project Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Revenue Recognition and Financial Analysis.

Conley Salyer
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Lexington, Kentucky

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07/22/2025

Meet another of our consultants, Bryan Wall

Bryan’s skill sets include: Process improvement, business process automation, software design & engineering, regulatory compliance, technology management, and leadership. Bryan’s process improvement and automation projects have included the areas of transportation, accounts payable, payroll, human resources, supply chain, and restaurant operations. Bryan built the Information Technology department of Fazoli’s Restaurants and served as its leader for more than 20 years.

Contact me to see what we can do for your business.

Conley Salyer
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Lexington, Kentucky

07/15/2025

Addressing the $1.3 Billion Shortfall in School Funding

Recent headlines outlined Kentucky's legislative school funding shortfall of $1.3 Billion. That's a lot of money for school districts to make up. We are here to help close that gap!

We optimize school bus routes, reducing the number of operating buses, drivers, monitors as well as the need to purchase as many new buses. Contact me to begin the process.

Conley Salyer
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Lexington, KY

06/17/2025

Meet another of our consultants - Bill Ryan

William J. Ryan, Ph.D. is an expert in strategic workforce development, learning technology integration, and organizational leadership. Over decades driving talent optimization initiatives, Dr. Ryan has honed a talent empowerment framework aligning purpose, people, and processes to elicit capability growth and maximize human capital investments.

Conley Salyer
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06/12/2025

Meet one of our process improvement consultants: Bob Gardner.

Before leaving full-time employment, Bob served as Vice President, Process Engineering and Operational Quality with Affiliated Computer Services (now Xerox). Bob led successful corporate quality and process improvement programs, established ISO 9000-certified quality management systems, and worked extensively with Lean, Six Sigma, and Re-engineering. He is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Certified Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence with the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and a past member of the National Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program.

For assistance from a quality team contact me.
Conley Salyer
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Lexington, Kentucky

05/27/2025

Driving Performance and Growth with Minimal Risk

We deliver measurable improvement for minimal upfront costs - charging only after results are achieved. Our tailored education programs equip teams with the skills to sustain success, while benchmarking against best practices provides clear insights for strategic growth.

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Lexington, Kentucky

05/14/2025

Combining School and Transportation Enrollment

KyCPE's partner, School Transportation Systems, now has the ability to help your School District digitally combine its school and transportation enrollment. Our approach identifies incorrect information put into the system by parents (misspellings, incorrect addresses, etc.) and creates reports you need to correct these items.

The goal, of course, is to maintain correct information in Infinite Campus and in your transportation management software. This process is an add-on to our bus route optimization work. Contact me to find out more.

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Lexington, Kentucky

05/06/2025

How much does KyCPE charge for its consulting services? We negotiate with your company to determine what results will have what economic effect on the Company; we are paid a portion of that economic effect after it is achieved. For example: if the economic effect desired is improved profitability before tax, we would negotiate a usual fee of 25 percent of that improvement when it is achieved.

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Lexington, Kentucky