Adam B'owden
Consultant, Trainer, Leadership Consulting
Typical results achieved by Clients are...
- Improve Quality by 90%,
- reduce lead time from weeks to hours or minutes,
- reduce inventory by 50 to 95%,
- cut cost by 10+%,
- increase productivity by 50+%,
- free up 30 to 50% of floor space,
- drive incremental revenue growth by 20+%,
- employee empowerment,
- cultural transformation,
- improved supplier / employee and client satisfaction.
We are not your typical Six Sigma or Lean consultants. We focus on teaching and coaching people on how to “fish for themselves.” We've thrown away the cookie cutter and instead, hear clients real needs, then provides consulting and custom training to expedite the results. We only works with clients passionate about building in success criteria for Lean, Six Sigma and cultural transformation. Our extensive Lean, Six Sigma, Leadership and Growth programs have involved a multitude of corporations on several continents. Our work has successfully, incrementally and radically transformed processes and culture to provide significant benefits, which is why both clients and colleagues describe our work as “creating a fun, results-driven environment in the workshops” ...“highly developed communication skills and cognitive ability for a wide range of processes and business”...“consistently demonstrated leadership skills in every deployment he has been involved with.”
Every day’s delay in not driving the right change is costing you money … Accelerate Your Business Results
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12 contactsProfessional Leader and continuous improvement expert (lean/6 Sigma), experienced in all aspects of strategic and tactical business Leadership, process and product improvement across the Industrial Automation, Aerospace & Financial/transactional industries.
Impact
• Added approximately $66m to bottom line profits, $49m in Revenue and $38m in cost avoidance.
• Has used lean and Six Sigma skills to drive the rapid implementation of improvements across multiple sites & industries.
• Creates self directed, trained & empowered work teams to ensure improvements continue.
• Identifies and prioritizes project/process “pipeline” opportunities using Leadership’s criteria and tollgates.
Communication
• Created Green Belt training material that is being successfully deployed to 30,000 people from the shop floor to boardroom.
• Strong training, coaching & mentoring skills at all levels and across all elements of the business.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal and technical skills using both hard and soft tool techniques to achieve success.
• Speaker at TBM Global Lean Summit, IQPC LeanSigma Conference, Co-Speaker at University of Texas (UTA) Leadership Forum with Mike George (George Group), UTA San Antonio Leadership Forum.
Leadership
• Uses strategic "big picture" to drive tactical implementation to meet the goals via cross-functional teams.
• Train & Coach leaders in the development of Strategic Deployment plans and actions, accountability and metrics
• Progressive leadership, facilitation and team membership driving "out of the box" innovative solutions.
• Successful problem solver with hands on experience in Operations, Engineering/Product Development & Marketing.
Results orientated team member or leader adept at identifying, defining and implementing solutions using both hard and soft change management skills. Strong listening, communication and inter-personal skills. Very innovative "out of the box thinker" seeing both big picture strategy and low level tactical detail.
