Shauna Smith is an initiator. However, having the courage to step forward and lead is only part of the equation. She is also a motivator who builds high-performing teams and advocates for their success. Within a global marketplace driven by forces of change, Shauna is also a disruptor who challenges ingrained assumptions to elevate the performance of diverse manufacturing and supply chain operations.A classically trained business leader and Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Shauna excels in driving fundamental organizational shifts to ensure a focus on customers, value-added transformation, lean cultures, and profitable growth. Earning the reputation as a trusted resource to executive decision makers and colleagues, she has been consistently promoted (6 times in 11 years) to take on new challenges and strategic initiatives.Today, as the Director of Process Improvement, Americas, for SPX FLOW, Inc., Shauna is the architect of a continuous improvement organization for 4 U.S. sites. In this role, she has led a team that has increased on-time delivery from 74% to 91%, reduced time-to-release-orders from 3 days to 30 minutes, and raised 55% productivity to 99% on select product lines. As a Director of Operations for Whirlpool, Shauna was accountable for a 1M-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility. Within her first year as the plant’s strategic and tactical leader, she delivered operational excellence in safety, quality, cost, delivery, and employee engagement. Specifically, this work was pivotal in improving the facility’s safety total recordable incident rate, customer service incident rate, yields, inventory turns, revenue, and contribution margin. Shauna also outperformed the company’s North American people leader effectiveness average score.Previously, Shauna advanced through positions of increasing responsibility within GE’s Nuclear Energy and Oil & Gas businesses. Advancing from a Maintenance Team Leader to a Plant Manager over 12 years, Shauna led union and nonunion teams through a wide range of achievements. These include the creation of six sigma cultures, the turnaround of underperforming operations, and organizational realignment.Shauna is the recipient of CEO Awards for her work in launching Women in Operations and Global Inclusion Week initiatives.