Gerard Wood is the author of Only Tradies Improve Reliability, a direct guide to the real driver of equipment performance: quality trades work. A maintenance leader and coach with more than 40 years spanning the workshop floor to global asset management leadership, Gerard started as a tradie and went on to lead maintenance performance across businesses worldwide. His view is that reliability comes from skilled people doing quality work, not from reports, dashboards or meetings, and he founded Turbo Leadership Coaching to mentor maintenance managers and asset leaders. Gerard wrote alongside other authors in the Expert Author Community.