ST. JOSEPH, MO

Altec Industries

SUPPLY CHAIN TEAM

Altec is bigger than any one department. We are one team within a much greater team—and proud to be part of a story that began long before us.

Inside Supply Chain, we are intentionally building a culture marked by integrity, family, faith, kindness, perseverance, teamwork, and understanding. We want to help people grow in work and life while contributing our best to Altec.

This is who we are becoming—and we’re looking for people who want to build it with us.

Hear the story that brought Altec to St. Joseph.

OUR 3D JOURNEY

From Conversation to Culture

Culture exists in every organization, but it can either emerge by accident or be intentionally architected. Intentional culture takes shape when leaders create space to confront real issues, ask difficult questions, and have meaningful conversations about the future they want to build. From there, they turn that shared vision into a common leadership language expressed through clear behaviors, intentional strategies, and shared accountability.

Through 3D Master Class, the Altec Supply Chain team clarified their identity, established their purpose, and began building the culture they want every staff member and person they serve to experience.

Markus Shepherd reflects on the 3D Journey and the kind of leadership culture his team is working to build—one that sees people as more than what they produce and intentionally develops them as people.

16 members of the Altec Supply Chain Team’s leaders have completed the 3D Master Class together to date, creating a shared foundation for the organization.

OUR IDENTITY

Defining What Defines Us

During the 3D Journey, Altec Supply Chain teammates reflected on the values, character traits, and behaviors that define who they are and who they aspire to become. As those individual voices came together, a shared language of identity began to emerge.

The word cloud captures that collective voice and serves as a set of identity anchors—helping keep Altec’s Supply Chain Team connected to the purpose, values, and identity shaping its leadership and culture.

Identity answers the question, "Who are we?"
Purpose answers the question, "Why are we here?"

OUR PURPOSE

Building a Foundation, Together

Purpose begins with people.

Through the 3D Journey, each Altec teammate first clarified his or her individual purpose. Those personal purpose statements became the building blocks from which the team’s shared foundational purpose emerged.

Like individual bricks laid together to form a strong foundation, each leader contributed his or her own language about why they serve in the organization. Together, those individual voices were synthesized into a single foundational purpose statement that now guides the department’s leadership, culture, and future.

Michael Evans, Talent Sourcing Specialist at Altec, shares how the 3D Journey is helping leaders look beyond performance to better understand, develop, and invest in the people behind the work.

16 Individual Purpose Statements
One Shared Foundational Purpose
“To lead people with Integrity, strengthen Family, live out Faith, practice Kindness, model Perseverance, build Teamwork, and deepen Understanding so others are encouraged, developed, and equipped to grow in work and life.”

OUR CULTURE

The Altec Supply Team “It” Factor

With identity clarified and a foundation of purpose established, Altec’s Supply Team began defining the culture it intends to build.

The department’s seven Cultural Distinctives express what makes their team uniquely them. Created from the voices of its own people, they provide a shared leadership language and a practical blueprint for how the team leads, serves, and works together every day.

SEVEN CULTURAL DISTINCTIVES
01
Lead with Integrity
We are people of integrity who choose courage and authenticity so others can trust our leadership and our example.
02
Family First
We are a family-minded team that shows loyalty and dependability so people know they matter beyond what they produce.
03
Faith in Action
We are faith-shaped people who serve with love so our leadership carries hope, humility, and purpose.
04
Choose Kindness
We are kind and compassionate people who extend grace so others feel seen, valued, and safe with us.
05
We Keep Going
We are people of perseverance who pursue excellence with optimism so growth continues even when life gets hard.
06
Better Together
We are a teamwork-centered group that brings joy and respect into shared effort so people can belong and succeed together.
07
Understand to Develop
We are people who seek understanding, pursue learning, and grow leadership so we can develop others with wisdom and intention.

Together, these seven Cultural Distinctives articulate Altec Supply Team’s shared identity and purpose and guide the leadership behaviors its people live every day.

Supply Chain Team

Become part of a team grounded in integrity, committed to developing people, strengthening relationships, and helping one another grow in work and life.

Altec’s Supply Chain Team is a Partner in Purpose of The Joseph Company’s St. Joseph Chapter—a coalition of organizations striving together to build better leaders, stronger teams, and a life-giving community culture that benefits all.