Anthony Howarth Email & Phone Number

Anthony Howarth is a VP - Global Lean Transformation Leader at GKN Aerospace at GKN Aerospace. He possess expertise in lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, six sigma, kaizen, value stream mapping and 11 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Anthony worked for me for over 4 years in the GKN Aerospace Lean Centre of Excellence. He was our Global Lean Leader and no-one could have owned that role title better than he did. Anthony is by far the best Lean Master that I have ever met and has a unique combination of the intellect to understand complex problems, the pragmatism to solve them in a way that meets the business needs, and the humility to ensure that the people that he is supporting don't feel marginalised. If you need someone who can clearly understand the waste in your Value Streams, your business's biggest problems, and help you to develop and execute a strategy to solve them, then there is no-one I can recommend more highly than Anthony.", "I had the pleasure of working with Anthony for just over 4 years at GKN Aerospace, successfully deploying the Lean Operating Model as part of a Global team of Lean Experts - led by Anthony. Anthony has a fantastic depth of knowledge within the lean spectrum, but crucially is also able to take the theory and practically apply lean at all levels within an organisation, delivering substantial business results. On a personal level, I have found Anthony to be one of the best leaders/coaches I have ever had the pleasure to work with. He has given me a great platform to operate and challenged me to be the best I can, leading to several new opportunities for me to progress and develop my learning and career further. I would recommend Anthony for any executive level business transformational role, and hope to be able to collaborate with him again in the future.", and "Anthony is one of the most knowledgeable, effective, dedicated and respected Lean professionals I have had the pleasure of working with. I worked with Anthony during our time together at GKN Aerospace where we successfully deployed a Lean Operating Model across all of our factories globally, supporting improvement of Operational Excellence maturity and, most importantly, delivering significant performance improvement across GKN Aerospace's key metrics. This success was achieved by taking our sites through a world-class framework where they were provided hands-on support to be able to deliver change by themselves. A key part of this approach was around building the competence of our people around the worl, both within their daily job but also through delivering training and certification programmes - in fact, some of the best times in my career came whilst co-delivering GKN's Lean Leadership programme with Anthony. From the above you there is no doubt I recommend Anthony from a technical perspective - he is a true Lean Master, but it's also important to know he's just a really great guy to work with and be around."

Listed skills include Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 12 others.