Experienced Lean Advisor, Facilitator, Trainer & Coach with over 20 Years Consulting and Operational Experience supporting Blue Chip Companies including Automotive, Food and Drink, Engineering, Electronics, Pharmaceutical, Service, Process and FMCG delivering End to End Transformation, Training, Breakthrough Kaizen Events, Project Management, Coaching and Mentoring.

Managing Client Projects to Show and Help Organisations Reach Their Full Potential. Developing Leadership for them to see how Commitment to Lean Thinking and Continuous Improvement Whilst Challenging Historical Paradigms can make a Huge Impact on Operational Performance in Every Area of the Business. Making Sustainable Change Happen.The Kaizen Institute began in the mid 80's. We have the longest history of serving organizations around the world in consulting and training, specifically in the field of KAIZEN™, Lean management and Continuous Improvement.We work with our clients to create processes that highlight problems, while simultaneously training and empowering their teams to solve them. We research, develop and publish various aspects of Continuous Improvement, while partnering with our clients, enabling them to implement sustainable improvements through our consulting, training and benchmarking activities and guiding them on their KAIZEN™ journey.

Responsible for Lean deployment and culture change within 30 plants throughout Europe and South Africa. To ensure that best prectice is used to focus on people, plant and process productivity.To help develop the Lear C.I. strategy within Europe and South Africa ensuring training and development of all key personnal to manintain and grow our market position.Coach the internal European and South African C.I. teams, support best practice with new launches and as a memeber of the global C.I. team ensure standardistion within the European and South African plants expoliting all opportunities for increasing value adding activities by eliminating waste in all operational and support functions.Additional responsibility, as part of a 3 strong Senior Global CI strategy team is to set the global CI strategy, goals and objectives for Lear globally for all product groups.Lear provide complete seating and electrical systems worldwide. With 2012 sales of $14.6 billion, Lear ranks #187 among the Fortune 500. Our world-class products are designed, engineered and manufactured by a diverse team of 122,000 employees in 221 locations. With headquarters located in Southfield, Michigan, Lear continues to operate facilities in 36 countries around the globe. Lear is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol [LEA].

Working with 'Blue Chip' client companies to deliver significant, sustained, quantifiable productivity, efficiency and financial improvements within their manufacturing, engineering, materials management and supply chain operations. Manage the UK Kaizen College programme focussing on new product development and targeted training of key operational employees in all aspects of lean methodology and continuous improvement tools and techniques.Support the global company with regard to new business development

Managed a team of 11 Lean Practitioners to delivery the contractual outputs for the then DTI's Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) and grow the commercial arm of the business.

Responsible for total quality, cost and delivery of all products from receipt of raw materials to despatched finished product. The management of 2 business units, 2 operations managers, £50 million capital equipment and 650 direct employees.Benchmarking, standardisation and lean implementation with sister plants in North America and Europe.Facilities management.