Principal consultant, Leigh Johnson, started Livication Business Group, LLC to provide the small and medium-sized businesses & organizations of the greater Houston area with the type of dedicated operations improvement and business consulting services that are typically only available to larger entities. The idea started as a way for Leigh to combine his two passions (and concentrations of his MBA studies) of Entrepreneurship and Business Consulting, and became fully crystallized when he saw the lack of direct consulting attention usually given to small companies that are unable to hire a large consulting firm to work with them. Thus, with a view to leveling the playing field for smaller firms, Livication Business Group, LLC was born.
We discuss the importance of incorporating the four key elements in your business: people, processes, technology and leadership.
Show Notes:
- Connected through the National Black MBA Houston Chapter
- The term “Livication” is derived from the Rastafarian practice of taking a negative-sounding prefix on a word and replacing it with positive-sounding one. Hence, the ‘ded’ in the word ‘Dedication’ is replaced by the prefix, ‘Liv’. This spawns the term ‘Livication’. Livication Business Group, LLC will always remain committed to the growth and prosperity of our clients, and this special type of commitment is our livication to them!
- Livication Business Group works with Non-Profit and For-Profit companies in the following areas:
- Expense Reduction
- Operations Improvement
- Work Process Development
- Technology Commercialization
- General Advisory Services
- 4 key elements: people, processes, technology and leadership.
- People (employees) speak to the culture of the organization.
- Processes what methods are in place? You can have the most skilled group of people in the world, but is it standardized?
- Leadership the connection, vision and systems that the leader brings to the employees.
- Technology focuses you on the systems that you use.
- Resources: LinkedIn
- Success is the way you undertake the journey.
- Leigh is originally from Trinidad & Tobago, and is an avid soccer player and part-time radio host and DJ.
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP); Six Sigma Black Belt.
- BE in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University; MBA (with concentrations in Entrepreneurship & Business Consulting) from the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston.
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