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Specializing in working with leadership teams to address critical issues such as vision, prioritization, leadership development, and creating a healthy workplace culture. Leveraging best practices from decades of personal experience, each engagement is uniquely tailored to each team's needs.

Saginaw, Michigan Area

Managed the portfolio and project leaders of Lean/Six Sigma projects for the business encompassing 50 global manufacturing plants; responsible for technical training of 18 silicone technical domains and 4,000 employees. Project portfolio delivered >$20M/year business impact.Received top scores from employee Leadership Effectiveness Survey.

Saginaw, Michigan Area

Responsible for developing Silicones University, the on-boarding curriculum for silicone operations globally, and for meeting training and development needs of the Performance Silicones Operations inside the greater Dow Chemical organization.

Coordination of global sub-teams involved in strategic capital installations, infrastructure upgrades, and facilitation of key business objectives.Developed $85M capital plan to address new regulations impacting $2B of global product sales by leading of team of scientists and industry experts to identify problems, investigate technical solutions, and evaluate impact on customer applications.Resolved historically persistent quality issue with a $10M/yr product by leading a team of scientists, engineers, operators, and analytical specialists to implement a strategy that could be initiated at onset of the problem. Received Manufacturing Achievement Award for this discovery and solution.

Global manager of commercialization project leaders and research portfolio manager for our business.Doubled first-year new product sales by streamlining business reviews and stage-gate process by implementing a cross-industry, cross-business Top 20 portfolio resource prioritization. Speed of commercialization showed a 25% increase as well.Multiplied the Idea Portfolio success rate by 4x with implementation of annual R&D bonus program requiring brief memos from all professionals on topics not currently being funded. This fueled commercialization portfolio and improved new product sales.

Governance of the product launch system, took purchased stage-gate system and developed best-in-class commercialization performance.Revamped R&D innovation process to more efficiently advance to commercialization by identifying most important risks and use of Discovery Driven Planning and Disruptive Innovation methods. Facilitated corporate Growth Council to fund and advance key R&D initiatives.Created cross-functional project leadership global team to efficiently deliver high quality solutions in innovation, Six Sigma, and business processes by training and mentoring over 300 leaders in US, Europe and Asia.

Business Development and New Product Development for electronics, aerospace, and personal care markets.Created customer Innovation Day events at global technology centers for key customers.Guided research with developmental silicone materials at Procter & Gamble R&D locations in US, Europe, South America, and Japan. Secured preferred development partner status with global collaboration agreement.

Worked in Lake City, MN flour mill a recent aquisition to integrate it into corporate structures.