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WE HELP SENIOR EXECUTIVES IN MID-SIZED FOR-PROFIT PRODUCT AND/OR SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS IMPROVE THE BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE OF THEIR MISSION-CRITICAL AND HIGH-POTENTIAL TALENT. OUR MISSION:Incline Insights, LLC, is a national pay-for-results management consulting firm that provides tailored, focused, solutions in the areas of:1. Strategic Management and Leadership2. Operations and Business Process Improvement3. Innovative Entrepreneurshipto help our clients improve the business knowledge and expertise of their MISSION-CRITICAL AND HIGH-POTENTIAL TALENT. OUR VISION:After we help our clients they will be known for creating a unique culture that promotes success and long-term career fulfillment among their MISSION CRITICAL AND HIGH-POTENTIAL TALENT.OUR VALUES:- ORIENTATION – We have a pay-for-results orientation that is focused on helping our clients create, sustain and leverage measurable results on high-visibility and high-impact projects – we do NOT have a cost-plus orientation.- AUTHENTICITY – We will tell our clients the truth as we see it – based on logic and fact – even if it means they no longer want to be a client.- SOLUTIONS – We develop solutions to agreed-upon challenges WITH our clients – not FOR our clients.- RELATIONSHIP – We view our relationship with our clients as a partnership of equals in the establishment of what needs to be done, but we believe it is the responsibility of the client to implement.- KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER – We transfer pertinent business knowledge and expertise to our clients so they become self-sufficient – we do NOT want to create a sense of dependency.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

TAUGHT STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, CULTURE MANAGEMENT, CHANGE MANAGEMENT, AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT @ MBA LEVEL.- Extensive experience with Zoom on-line courses - both graduate and undergraduate.- Developed and launched an Executive Development offering focused on strategic leadership, mentoring, and operations improvement.- Introduced a series of graduate-level strategic management course offerings that provides the MBAs with hands-on experience applying what they learn to assess, develop, and present alternative profitable growth strategies. The students are connected to executives from a partner business to conduct real-time strategic intelligence gathering / analysis and to assess the strategic vulnerabilities of the company's current strategy. The final phases of the course offering requires the graduate students to collaboratively develop and present alternative profitable growth strategies to the partner company’s executive leadership team. Throughout the course the graduate students are exposed to various methods to assess and develop their individual and their team's leadership abilities. - Developed and launched a graduate-level entrepreneurship course focused on design thinking, problem solving, business models (for-profit and non-profit businesses), value propositions, lean start-ups, scale-up assessments, and business plans (development and assessment).- Developed and launched a graduate-level management consulting course focused on how to work with a consultant, how to be a consultant, how to gain clients, how to solve tough problems and manage polarities, while working with a real client.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

NEW VENTURE - STARTUP - DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE - Responsible to develop, launch, and improve an offering that connects entrepreneurs in the region with the business expertise of the universities and colleges in the Greater Cincinnati region. XLAB IS THE ONLY INITIATIVE LAUNCHED AT XAVIER UNIVERSITY THAT CONNECTED administrators, faculty, instructors, UG's, MBA's, Executive MBA's, local entrepreneurs, mentors, alumni, business community, and investors.- Founding Director of the XLAB initiative which provides business training, mentoring, and MBA consultants to new and existing businesses. Helped over 500 new ventures since 2010. SEE THE ATTACHED VIDEO LINK FOR AN OVERVIEW OF THE XLAB PROGRAM.- Founded LaunchCincy which teaches entrepreneurs in low to moderate income neighborhoods how to apply Human-Centered Innovation and Design Thinking.- Launched the Incline Incubator in Price Hill (Cincinnati) which is focused on existing (grow) and new (launch, sustain and grow) low-tech / maker-type businesses. The goal is to help create sustainable jobs and wealth for the people living in the area. Once the model is sustainable will transfer operation of the incubator to a member of the community - then will launch another one in another neighborhood - then connect them to share and develop best practices.- Launched a University BrainSteer SLAM! which connected the owners of 3 low-tech businesses to 30 students from 5 universities in the region. Over 2-days the 6 cross-university teams developed and presented the business owners with solutions to their business challenge. One team was selected as the winner of the event and was awarded $6000.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

EXPERIENCED GLOBAL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT THAT TEACHES STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, CULTURE MANAGEMENT, CHANGE MANAGEMENT, AND PROJECT PORTFOLIO PROGRAM MANAGEMENT @ EXECUTIVE MBA AND TRADITIONAL MBA LEVELS. - Completed train-the-trainer workshops at the d.school: Institute of Design at Stanford. Now train this method in courses and via workshops for the low tech business community in the Greater Cincinnati region.- Provide coaching and mentoring to executives within multiple industries.- Since the summer of 2007 have designed and taught 22 different courses within the College of Business - 6 Executive MBA, 12 MBA, and 4 Undergrad.- Extensive application of experiential learning in all classes - netting >200 real-life projects for students.- Experiential learning mentor for full-time tenure track faculty.- Member of a team that designed and executed an intensive global strategic management course within the Executive MBA program. EMBA's partner with executives from large organizations to conduct real-time strategic intelligence gathering and analysis leading toward the development and presentation of alternative profitable growth business-level strategies to the partner company’s executive leadership team.- Developed and launched an MBA Management Consulting course that links the MBA's to real-life clients located throughout the Greater Cincinnati area. "ENTR 668 Small Business Consulting has been the best possible capstone to my MBA because it lets you tackle real problems in real businesses. It forces you to use everything you've learned in your classes: our client needed detailed financial projections, a marketing strategy, and much more to successfully pitch his product to customers and investors. I also think it is a great venue for teaching yourself how to learn.” Grad Student- Received Executive MBA Professor of the Year Award in 2010 and 2015.- Received Adjunct of the Year Award 2 consecutive years.

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

EXTENSIVE ON-SITE GLOBAL MANAGEMENT CONSULTING EXPERIENCE - provided team-based business/financial assessments and guidance on how to manage a portfolio of strategic initiatives in $2 billion business sectors.• Provided one-on-one and team-based coaching to operations executives and managers.• Led the development and deployment of a formalized core competence and global footprint rationalization initiative focused on increasing ROIC within three $1 billion business units.• Led cross-functional teams within multiple business units through enterprise-wide value stream and supply chain assessments (current and future state) for operations located in North America, China, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Czech Republic and Russia. Prioritized and launched a portfolio of initiatives to drive revenue increases, cost and asset reductions.• Developed the methods and led a Lean Branch back-office corporate strategic initiative comprised of a thirty-three member enterprise-wide team. The teams identified and prioritized the projects necessary to drive $8.2 million cost reduction and a $50 million working capital reduction.• Led the development of a three-year strategy and project pipeline for a global human resources organization within a $2 billion sector. • Facilitated the development of formal processes for acquisition, integration, and divestiture.• Part of a cross-sector team that developed and implemented a lean six-sigma deployment strategy and roadmap throughout the enterprise. Roadmap included a formal operational excellence assessment to identify a current state level of maturity, gap analysis and improvement plans. Also, participated in formulating and delivering a standard lean six-sigma training curriculum for Champions, Yellow, Green, and Black Belts. • Nominated for the 2005 Chairman’s Award for Operational Excellence.• 2 major clients formally recognized by the Chairman and 2 Sector Presidents in the annual report for results achieved.

Miamisburg, Ohio, Us

MULTI-SITE OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE - $70M IN ANNUAL REVENUE- Co-led the implementation of a formal sales and operations planning process for all product lines.- Educated senior-level staff and implemented Just-In-Time II® Supplier Partnering with largest injection molding supplier. The implementation enabled a 75% reduction in inventory. Suppliers linked to new product development process, sales and operations planning process, master scheduling, and daily production meetings.

Northville, Michigan, Us

COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE - Responsible to develop and implement a strategic plan to achieve revenue, cost and quality targets for a job-shop machining operation.- Developed and led a cross-functional Customer Service and Throughput Improvement Team comprised of 75% hourly employees through a complete re-design of the plant floor layout. Team drove a 38% reduction in production lead-time, 60% reduction of administrative lead-time, and a 23% improvement in on-time performance to the customer. - Facilitated the development and implementation of an operator-driven kanban card pull system in a job shop operation. Extensive application of set-up time reduction and constraint management. - Became the first certified supplier for Wellsville, Dresser-Rand. Keynote speaker at the corporate Supplier Awareness Day.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

PLANT STARTUP EXPERIENCE - complete responsibility to launch a state-of-the-art finishing facility comprised of 200 hourly associates.- Applied team-based learning and extensive application of process mapping and statistical process control on all major processes.

Miamisburg, Ohio, Us

BUSINESS SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCE - as the Production and Inventory Manager:- Part of the second wave of people assigned to implement an enterprise business system- Led the implementation of several improvements in the material scheduling system that netted an 18% improvement in plant schedule attainment.CAPACITIY IMPROVEMENT IN PLANT CONSTRAINT EXPERIENCEAs the Paint & Sub-assembly Section Manager: - Paint System - extensive process improvements via employee engagement and development enabling the application of statistical process control - netting a 50% improvement in plant throughput.- Formally recognized by the CEO 2 consecutive years for improvements in quality and team development. Sub-Assembly - integrated sub-assembly operations on the assembly line netting 20% productivity improvement and a 75% work-in-process inventory reduction.

MAJOR PROCESS RELOCATION AND STARTUP EXPERIENCE - - Shift supervisor of 100 employees in a blow molding operation.- Bottle-making process transferred from Cincinnati to Baltimore. Part of the initial process start up team. Responsible for initial and on-going training for mechanics and machine operators.- Promoted to Department Superintendent.- Promoted to Plant Superintendent in Milltown, NJ operation. A turn-around situation.

Executive Mba, Business Administration

Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Marketing

Flawless Consulting, Management Consulting

College/University Preparatory