Bob Wakeley Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, Us

As a Vistage member, I am committed to elevating my company and my community. Vistage is the world’s largest CEO peer advisory and executive coaching organization and has been helping business leaders make better decisions that get better results since 1957.

Carrollton, Tx, Us

My main goal is to help our Franchise Partners reach their goals. Many times the focus is on increasing sales AND profits. For some, I help them get clarity on their goals, then take the next critical step and cooperate in creating an action plan focused on helping them reach their goals. I have found a key part of the job is letting the people I work with know I care about their success and I am willing to help hold them accountable to their goals and executing their plan. Any business person can get off track from time to time, as a Franchise Business Consultant, it is often enough just to give a simple nudge in the right direction. The great news for our Franchise Partners who really are willing to work hard and smart is we have a plan that is proven to create success and a great team to support them in their journey. Business is a team sport, I enjoy being part of a team whose focus is on helping others succeed.

West Palm Beach, Fl, Us

Accountable for developing new team members to understand their role and quickly produce measured results. Create and implement training programs designed to enhance effectiveness and productivity of the team and help each member increase their value to the organization. Goal is to develop future leaders for the company to support our continue expansion. Target result areas impact areas for skill enhancement: assist our franchisees to increase unit sales and profits, assist in developing store staff and maintaining brand compliance.

West Palm Beach, Fl, Us

United Franchise Group (UFG) is the umbrella company to a successful group of the world’s largest franchise systems specializing in personalized business services including signage, embroidery and outdoor advertising. The UFG corporate headquarters, located in West Palm Beach, Fla., controls operations for approximately 200 employees in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Australia and offers support to the remaining countries around the world.As Mid Atlantic Operations Advisor I provide franchise development for 60 Sign A Rama stores in PA/DE/NJ/MD/VA/WV. • Work directly with Franchisee’s to develop and grow their business, targeting both sales and profit.• Provide comprehensive onsite training for new, emerging and mature owners covering all aspects of business operation including design, production, customer service, sales, marketing, human resources, financial evaluations, goal setting, financial reviews, business development, POS software, and equipment operation. • Promote company led initiatives: on line sign ordering, social media integration into business’, and search engine optimization for store web sites. Assist stores in using these tools to help grow sales.• Support existing stores based on a business review and influence their efforts with the goal of overall improvement in performance and a focus on bottom line results.• Conduct regional support seminars in the marketing, operations, financial, goal setting, business development and technical areas focused on franchise location growth.• Assist in the franchise sales department, supporting trade shows and individual meetings with potential new franchisees. • Created training program for new Operations Advisors and was responsible for training and mentoring new team members.

Managing Partner contributing to growing the business from a start up to $400K in annual sales in less than three years on a shoestring budget. Provided screen printing, embroidery, advertising specialties and signs to our customers and grew with a tenacity for Excellent Customer Service and keeping our word with customers.

• Improved on time shipments by 18% for ET in the first 6 months• Doubled overall inventory turnover ratio; meeting goal of 7 turns per year on $1.2MM of inventory• Increased production staff by 30% to meet elevated production demand, reducing labor costs by minimizing overtime• Led implementation of comprehensive preventative maintenance program• Led team tasked to reduce active inventory by 30% while minimizing previous stock out situations• Team Leader for MRP Implementation project• Reduced overall material cost by $300K per year through effective vendor negotiations • Reduced annual labor cost by $26K by improving resource allocation• Led capital improvement projects on bottle-neck welding stations increasing capacity by 33%• Reduced contract labor cost by $30K per year while simultaneously eliminating previous bottleneck• Implemented JIT delivery system with key customer reducing customer inventory by $50K without negative impact on HPT finished goods inventory

Waltham, Ma, Us

• Led team responsible for the manufacture of electrochemical gas detection sensors. Responsibilities included: Employee development, purchasing, MRP, QC, EHS, new product development, warehouse and manufacturing operations.o Increased on time shipments 26% through better resource allocationo Reduced failure rate on key sensor by 25% through product modifications and production improvementso Successfully implemented manufacturing module of new MRP systemo Reduced product cost by outsourcing several labor intense componentso Led aspects of the design and start up of new automated cell test equipment successfully increasing throughput and reducing labor cost

• Responsible for plant safety, process improvements, production scheduling, warehouse operation and production budget. • Supervised all production personnel and provided technical support for multiple processes. • Team Leader/member of several PHR’s. • Managed process change system. • Ensured inventory adequate for production and prioritized maintenance work to support production schedule. • Member of Quality Steering Committee.• Led team successfully reducing cycle time on critical plant turn around by 40%• Led new process start up team, hit target start date, exceeded expected yield• Led company wide effort to meet challenging waste water specification, reduced turn-around time from 11 days to 36 hours.• Reduced labor cost by successfully increasing staff by 70%

Us

Responsible for project management on a budget scale ranging from $5K - $500K. Championed development work from laboratory to semi-works scale. Supervised 3MM lbs. of production per year. Successfully completed process development on new product and completed preparation for plant start up.ISO-9000 CoordinatorLed implementation of programs and procedures necessary for application for certification. Coordinated team resources focused on meeting planned timetable. Completed Auditor Certification.