Innovation Champion, Operations Manager, Manufacturing Manager & Lean Improvement Leader, experienced in driving step-change into a wide variety of manufacturing sectors. Have carried out business, departmental & value-stream reviews with organisations ranging from 1 man-bands to multi-national companies with sites of 500+ employees enabling improvement priorities to be identified, and critically to assist with hands-on support in implementing the solutions needed. Led consultancy and production teams from 20-50 people.Modes of working include Strategic Thinking, Baseline Auditing, Lean tools, Hands-on Implementation of Improvement Projects, Team Leader Coaching & Director Mentoring.A key theme running though all projects is working with the people involved in the processes (shop floor or sales/office/admin/despatch/logistics) to achieve real buy-in, culture change, and bottom-line results.Specialties: Cross-Business Improvement, Change Management, Value Stream Reviews, Lean & Six Sigma, Leadership Coaching, Manufacturing/Production Management, Low-to-High Volume environments, Hi-tech & Traditional Manufacture, Sectors from Sewing & Furniture to Automotive, Motorsport & Aerospace. Qualifications - BEng, DMS (Management), Six Sigma, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), IEMA (Environmental)