Mission
To create a platform where every conversation can build substantive relationships and ignite stronger, more connected communities.
Vision
Compel listeners to engage in meaningful interactions in all areas of their lives, strengthening personal connections, improving workplace dynamics and building strong communities.
Value Statement
We believe that by making the effort to create Four Bars in our connections with others – we can become better united.
Meet your Hosts
Patti Leith
Patti has dedicated her entire career to building inclusive workplace cultures. She is energetic about equality and cares greatly about enabling collaborative teams. Her life’s work has been to teach people how to judge less and include more.
With corporate leadership experience at Sheraton, Food Lion, and Walmart/Sam’s Club, she has held positions in Operations, Human Resources, Organizational Development and Strategy. During her tenure at Food Lion, she started and led their diversity effort to foster equal opportunities for women and people of color. In addition to founding EDGES™ in 2001, Patti and her husband Ken started e-Gauge™, Inc., a software solutions company. In 2017, they founded Unform Your Bias™, a 501(c)3 with the mission to offer tools and experiences that compel people to reduce the amount of bias in the world.
Patti has authored several articles, white papers, and two books. She is the creator of the Inter Face Methods Learning eXcelerator™, a compelling tool to build tolerance, collaboration and inclusion, and in 2012, she published Judge Not: A Guide to Influence People Who Think Differently.
Ken Leith
During Ken’s professional career, he held Executive level positions with Ryland Homes, MI Homes, and Brookfield Homes in Customer Service, Quality and Production. He has excelled as a leader in Executive Coaching, Business Management, Strategic Planning, Quality Management, and Process Efficiency. He has consistently led successful conversions of underperforming teams into top producers.
In 2009, Ken co-founded (e)Gauge, Inc., a SAAS software company offering tools designed to align organizations’ resources to ensure goal achievement. Along with Patti, he is a Co-Founder of the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Unform Your Bias™, which started in 2017.
He and Patti are co-authors of Food Safety – A Roadmap to Success.
Ken’s work focuses on helping organizations build metrics and ensuring a productive culture, which have enabled the companies he has led and coached to achieve solid increases in revenue while also enhancing profitability. He has comprehensive experience in architecting winning teams to create, measure, and maximize efficiency.
The Four Bars Podcast is brought to you by EDGES, Inc. a Growth Advisory firm based in Bentonville and owned and operated by our hosts, Ken and Patti Leith. Founded in 2001, EDGES promotes growth of people, companies and ideas. Their team collaboration tool, Inter Face Methods, is a basis for teams to work together more collaboratively, understand each other, accept differences and address challenges, together. Their non-profit Unform Your Bias™ teaches kids and their adult influencers how to utilize story telling as a means to reduce bias in the world.