Offerings
Leadership Coaching
My approach extends beyond a set of techniques that can be used to accomplish a particular task or goal. Together, we will explore your current way of being and how you show up in the world and understand how this impacts your effectiveness and personal fulfillment. We will work together to explore and expand your current way of being by introducing different self-awareness exercises and practical actions that will develop a broader set of competencies and perspectives. As we work together, our goal will be to have your thoughts, actions and behaviors flow intuitively and naturally as you interact with the various challenges and situations you encounter on a daily basis. This is the essence of the integral approach to leadership coaching. Anyone and everyone can benefit from a coach. The best executives, athletes and top performers in the world all benefit from coaches. If you are passionate about your personal development and are seeking to improve your effectiveness and personal fulfillment, this is for you.
Operations Management System (OMS)
The goal of the OMS is to create a sustainable culture of problem solving and continuous improvement. Sustainable culture change only comes from teaching and then deliberately practicing new behaviors. Over time, this changes people’s mindsets and in the long term builds the organizations culture and its ability to compete at the highest levels. This is the fly-wheel where problem solving and improvement is deeply imbedded into the DNA of an organization. OMS is a series of integrated management processes, techniques and tools, with clearly defined and aligned goals, deployed across the enterprise to drive top-quartile results. Based on the foundational elements of the Toyota Production System and the Shingo Model of Operational Excellence, the OMS introduces tools and focuses on what must happen in the daily management system in order to easily identify and solve problems on a never-ending basis. This offering is highly recommended for teams that have struggled with their own improvement or transformational efforts and are looking to take their current improvement system to the next level.
Lean Boot Camp
An immersive, week-long, on-site experience held in Bat Cave, North Carolina.
This is an outstanding experience for any team seeking to learn more, just starting or in the process of a Lean Enterprise transformation. Teams will learn the history, the thinking, the basic tool set and the management processes for full implementation and sustainment into the future. A very important teacher in my own life told me that the only way he would teach me the tools, spirit and approach to Lean Thinking was if I would authentically listen, try to do it myself and teach it to others. Lean Bootcamp is an honor to this commitment. This offering started in 2004 and hundreds of teams have benefited over the years. Lean Boot Camp is a great team building event where teams not only learn, but grow trust, understanding and camaraderie for the journey ahead and most important have a fun time.
Due Diligence, Integrations, Value Creation & Individual Tool Education
I am available for individual assignments focused on due diligence, integrations or value creation across manufacturing, supply chain, sourcing, EHS and operational excellence domains. I also provide point instruction on specific improvement tools to include A3 problem solving, Strategy Deployment, Daily Management System, kaizen basics and the Value Improvement Program (VIP) focused on holistic cost improvements. In special circumstances, I am available for temporary operational leadership assignments.