Ray Kowalczyk
forty-one years pulling wire and thirty of them running crews that didn't want to be run
$12/hour , set by Ray Kowalczyk. Your first session with them is free.
Got my IBEW card in 1979 out of Local 134 in Chicago. Ran my first crew at 27 and I was terrible at it. Chewed out a twenty-year man in front of everybody over a conduit run that turned out to be my own mistake on the print. Took me two years to win that crew back.
By the end I was general foreman on hospital jobs, sixty guys, and my whole trick was I quit yelling and started asking.
Retired in 2020. My wife said find something to do or find somewhere else to sit. So now I talk with foremen, shift leads, new supervisors. Anybody who got handed a crew and no instructions.
You bring me your problem guy or your problem boss. I've met both a hundred times. We figure out your next move and then you go do it.
More background
I know construction crews, union job sites, foreman and general foreman work, scheduling around other trades, safety standdowns, and how to correct a man without humiliating him. Forty-one years, mostly commercial and hospital work in Chicago.
Who should book me: new foremen, shift leads, crew leads in any trade or any blue collar shop. Doesn't have to be electrical. A crew is a crew.
Who shouldn't: office people wanting corporate leadership theory. I don't know your world and I won't pretend to. Also, if you want somebody to tell you your crew is the problem, fair warning, I'm probably going to tell you it's you first. Most times it is.
I don't do email homework. You want me between sessions, call me, I answer the phone like a human being. Mornings are best. I'm up at five and useless after 8pm Central, and I fish Wednesdays, no exceptions.