Craig Szelestowski Email & Phone Number

Craig is a business improvement and human capital change agent with an extensive track record of breakthrough public sector results.He is the President of Lean Agility Inc., a firm focused on creating faster, better, more efficient government and inspired people. Prior to forming Lean Agility Inc., Craig was VP of Human Resources and Business Transformation (Lean/Six Sigma) at the Royal Canadian Mint, a multi-billion dollar Crown corporation providing products and services to Canada and dozens of countries around the world.He has driven achievements such as:• High-impact, sustained, Lean/Sigma implementation resulting in millions of dollars of financial improvement and agility, such as the halving of new product development lead times and increased speed enabling on-time and on-quality delivery of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics coin program;• Major improvements in flexibility, addressing peaks and valleys in customer demand without increasing or decreasing the permanent employee population or adding significant capital; • Improvements to employee programs and engagement, leading to the Mint’s designation by Maclean’s magazine as one of “Canada’s Top 100 Employers” over four consecutive years (2007-2010);• Supporting the turnaround - from a 2003 loss of over $ 3 million - to a 2009 profit of over $ 68 million.At Lean Agility Inc., he works exclusively with government clients to create results of similar magnitude.Bilingual, he speaks frequently at conferences on Lean/Six Sigma, Organizational Transformation as well as HR, and and has instructed at the University of Ottawa. He produces Canada's National Lean Government Conference each October leangovernmentconference.ca.Craig holds an MBA from the University of Ottawa, as well as BA in Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto. He completed his Lean Black Belt at CITEC at Clarkson University and Six Sigma Black Belt studies at Villanova University.Specialties: Public Sector (government/not for profit) Lean Enterprise / Six Sigma, productivity, implementing sustained change, re-starting stalled change projects, improving execution, increasing accountability, internal communications, business strategy and alignment, HR effectiveness, leadership development and succession planning, team-building, performance management, executive and team coaching, recruitment, organizational design, employee engagement, employer branding, rewards, project management.

Listed skills include Organizational Development, Change Management, Performance Management, Leadership Development, and 17 others.