Petra Weiser is a manufacturing operations leader and straight-talking advocate for practical, no-BS
leadership. Born in Germany and built in U.S. manufacturing, she has launched facilities, led teams, and fixed broken cultures from the factory floor up.
Over two decades she has navigated rapid growth, workforce shortages, promotions from within, and the daily realities of production pressure—learning what truly drives loyalty and performance in hourly workforces.
As creator of Factory Floor Forward, Petra helps leaders replace fear-based management with human-centered accountability that improves retention, culture, and results.
But wait…there’s more:
Petra Weiser is also a leadership speaker and workplace culture advocate known for practical, real conversations about women, power, and professional growth. Having built and navigated her career in male-dominated industries, she is familiar with difficult bosses and the unspoken rules that shape who gets heard—and who gets overlooked.
Today Petra helps organizations develop stronger women leaders while equipping men to become confident, effective allies. She focuses on communication, confidence, power dynamics, and the behaviors that determine whether women advance or quietly disengage.
Her success stems from L.O.V.E., Petra’s framework for empowering women as confident leaders while recruiting men as allies. L.O.V.E. stands for Learn, Observe, Value, and Empower and redirects fear, control, or silence into actionable tools, especially for women.
But wait…there’s more:
Petra helps international (manufacturing) startups land and scale in the U.S.— building teams, ironing out the chaos, and getting operations from slide deck to shop floor.
Equal parts German precision and American “let’s just do it,” Petra has worked in every department, so she knows how to make the whole system hum, not just one silo.
Petra loves startups, manufacturing, and international interactions, so if you need any support combining these three, she’s your purple unicorn!