John Wellwood is a graduate from Napier University in Edinburgh. His training has been in Manufacturing Management, Manufacturing improvement, Lean Manufacturing, MRPII, JIT, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Strategic development, TQM, supply chain management, business process reengineering and business diagnostic and improvement.
He has worked internationally for companies such as Kodak, KPMG and Invensys as a business consultant for over 12 years. He has worked at all levels of these companies from corporate board level to shop floor. He has also worked as an operations director for UVG an automotive company where he was responsible for all aspects of the business.
For the last 5 years he has provided advise and support to SME's and multi national companies working as a business coach, advisor and trainer working for Strategic Business Partners Ltd a company he founded. Throughout his career he has worked in Europe, USA, Brazil and Australia on almost any business issue possible.
John now specialises in Lean manufacturing, business development and people development through providing consultancy support and training. He is deeply involved in developing small and medium sized businesses through improving every aspect of their business.
GillianRhodes
Gillian Rhodes was trained and accredited as a Six Sigma Black Belt by Motorola University. She has a wealth of experience of teaching, coaching and consulting in Six Sigma, Lean and Continuous Improvement. She has worked with international clients in sectors including Insurance, Pensions, Banking, Automotive, Power Generation, Transportation, Electronics, Biotech and Food Manufacturing. She brings to her clients over 20 years of practical experience and real-life examples of the use of Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement tools and techniques.
One of Gillian's most recent assignments was as a programme leader for an in-company Lean Sigma deployment for a major high-street bank. Her responsibilities included the development of customised training material, delivery of Lean Sigma training including Lean Expert, Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Black Belt and Executive-level training, She also facilitated a number of project selection workshops, and provided follow-up project coaching and support.
Other assignments include Lead Trainer for a power generation/engineering company delivering Black Belt and Green Belt training to multi-disciplined international classes totalling around 200 participants, and fulfilling a Master Black Belt role with a leading Insurance Company.
Prior to becoming a consultant, Gillian gained 13 years' experience in the application of Lean and Six Sigma techniques, while working as a Process Engineer and Black Belt in both high and low volume manufacturing environments. She used a wide range of Lean and Six Sigma techniques to continuously improve the processes for which she was responsible - techniques such as Process Mapping, Problem Solving, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Measurement Systems Analysis, Statistical Process Control and Design of Experiments.
CORE SKILLS
Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, Minitab, Facilitation, Presentation Skills. Gillian has an excellent ability to design and deliver training to meet each individual customer's needs.
Joe Cash
Joe Cash is an international Master Black Belt having consulted in 6 countries, trained and certified over 1500 people in Lean Six Sigma, and run projects in almost every area of business and in numerous industry sectors.
Joe started his career as an apprentice engineer making road tankers. He became proficient in all aspects of fabrication. He then moved to Thorn Colour Tubes and joined the quality department. He then went to B.O.C. in a production supervisory role, manufacturing gas equipment. From there he went to AlliedSignal/Honeywell and held several positions, both in production and quality. While there, he graduated with a BSc from the Open University in Mathematics, majoring in Statistics, he then graduated with an MSc in Management Development at Lancaster University. He also trained as a Master Black Belt and developed and deployed Lean Six Sigma and DFSS in the early stages of the deployment for Allied Signal / Honeywell helping to shape the training which is still used today. Joe also served on the Industrial Advisory Board at UCL. Fellow of the Royal statistical society delivery lectures to the fellowship.
He then took on the role of European Quality Manager and Master Black Belt at an electronics company, introducing Lean Six Sigma and achieving accreditation to ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 14000.
In 2003 Joe started consultancy / training and has worked with large and small businesses including - BT, BAA, Nissan, Vauxhall, Atmel, Capita, BBI, Renault, Norwich Union, Sellafield etc. The consultancy assignments have ranged from training, coaching and certification of Green Belts, Black Belts and Master Black Belts, design of Lean Six Sigma deployments, process reengineering etc.
CORE SKILLS
Six Sigma, Lean, Minitab, Supplier Development, 5S, Business Process Redesign (BPR), Total Quality Management, Lean Enterprise, Cultural Change, New Product Introduction.
Annette Palmer
Annette Palmer is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and CIPD Accredited Trainer /Associate. She has 10 years' experience in the deployment, training, coaching and mentoring of Six Sigma Candidates. Her knowledge has been gained in the Financial Services sector – Assurance and Banking. During her time with Britannic Assurance and HSBC Bank, she led major change activities using her project and programme management skills.
Her accreditation as a CIPD trainer has enabled her to design and deliver customised training for all types of technical and soft skills to meet the business need. To date, she has trained over 650 people in various skills and mentored 100 people to enable and accelerate project success.
Annette has the ability to be a strategic and low-level thinker with proven experience in Customer Services, Collections, Complaints and complex banking queries. She is an experienced people and performance manager with the ability to provide direction, motivational leadership and development of staff (both individually and working as a team). As an Operational and Change Leader, she has many years' experience of problem solving, communication, coaching, mentoring and up-skilling to a very high standard. Her career background enables her to successfully communicate with levels from operational floor to boardroom. This ensures the positive development of key stakeholder relationships with sponsors, champions and subject matter experts.
CORE SKILLS
Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, Change Management Training, Facilitation, Presentation skills, Project Management, Business Reviews, Confidence Building, Plain English (in conjunction with the Plain English Campaign) and the ability to design any training to meet customer needs. Her strong communication skills combined with a solution-focused and passionate approach ensures strong relationship building, engagement and results.
John Fraser
Experienced Continuous Improvement Lean 6 Sigma Trainer with more than 300 delegates trained to date to Yellow, Green and Black Belt levels. Expert in the use and interpretation of Minitab Deep understanding of Continuous Improvement deployment in both production and transactional industries. Applied expertise to projects in order to coach and help trained delegates deliver on objectives quickly on a one to one basis.
Continuous Improvement Projects and Associated training across various regions and industries. Available to run independent Continuous Improvement courses at all levels by arrangement.
Georgina Turton
Georgina Turton is a versatile change management practitioner and Master Black Belt who enjoys collaborating with organisations to develop ongoing strategies to make practical change. Her approach is to adapt to the client's need from facilitation of process mapping to coaching and training in the belief that everyone from senior to junior level can apply systematic change to any process.
She works with organisations to facilitate change by applying Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, CAP, change management skills and other continuous improvement methodologies. Activities involve onsite coaching, continuous improvement roll out and support, facilitation of workshops, training programmes in various topics including Six Sigma, awareness sessions, storyboard compilation, programme management, process management implementation, business risk management, operational effectiveness, problem identification and verification and strategic planning.
Georgina was born and raised in Australasia and then went on to focus on business in Southeast & East Asia, Europe and Northern America. She studied in Vietnam in the early '90s before coming to the UK to align an organisation's Operations with Marketing opportunities in the northern hemisphere.
She worked as a Global Manager for Strategic Alliances before becoming a Master Black Belt at GE Capital in the UK. There she focused on Operations (both back office and call centres) and Sales. She moved into a UK wide managerial role for the print supply chain where she worked with suppliers to ensure a 10% cost savings to GE year on year.
In 2001, Georgina was approached by some ex-GE colleagues to join their consultancy business and has not looked back. She has worked with multinationals applying Six Sigma, Lean and other continuous improvement methodologies to achieve demonstrable savings and customer service increases. Her ability to switch between delivering training and analytical skills has kept her applying a realistic approach to Six Sigma and Lean, and established her as a useful support resource.
As a continuous improvement and Lean Six Sigma specialist Georgina divides her time between supporting and delivering training, onsite coaching, strategic development, Six Sigma deployment, reviewing processes, implementing project selection processes and facilitating workshops. Her international upbringing lends itself to delivering and supporting Six Sigma across many continents.
CORE SKILLS
Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, Process Management, Business Process Redesign (BPR), Change Management Training, Facilitation, Practical Computer Applications, Presentation Training, Process Mapping: facilitation and training, Six Sigma DMADV (new product/ process development), Kaizen, Train the Trainer, Workout.
Jenny Wilton
Jennifer Cosgrove
Carolyn Van Lottum
Carolyn van Lottum is a graduate Mechanical Engineer from Heriot-Watt University and a graduate in Process Analytics and Quality Technology from Newcastle University. She has trained in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, MRPII, Kaizen, NLP, Kansei Engineering and Statistical Analysis for data reduction, prediction and process control.
With 14 years experience in process improvement including 8 years experience as a business consultant, Carolyn has coached delegates and implemented Lean and Lean Six Sigma for organisations involved in healthcare, precision manufacture, chemical process manufacture and service provision.
Carolyn specialises in the practical application, interpretation and communication of data analysis for business improvement. Whilst working for Newcastle University she carried out research into adapting Kansei Engineering (a technique designed to bring customer emotion into product design) for SME's. This involves collecting voice of the customer data and using it at the very core of the design process; this experience combined with her Lean Six Sigma expertise has given Carolyn a deep understanding of how robust data analysis can be used to improve all areas of a business.
CORE SKILLS
Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, Coaching (both technical and soft skills), Manufacture Resource Planning, Material Requirements Planning, Voice of the Customer data collection and analysis, statistical modelling, data reduction, Kansei Engineering for product and service design, Minitab, SPSS, Workshop Facilitation
Paul Vincent
Jim Douglas
Steve Porture
Christine Gilkes
Christine Gilkes is a specialist in human behaviour and improving performance through consultancy, training, coaching and facilitated learning. Christine has more than 20 years experience in learning and development and 15 years personal experience in management and leadership positions.
In 1998 Christine set up her own company providing consultancy in HR and Training where she has worked with over 50 very diverse clients with a single aim to improve performance. Her depth of experience ranges from business consultancy, design and delivery of learning solutions to end-to-end management of projects. Christine is not afraid to challenge current thinking and often works with people who need to adapt to a climate of changing priorities.
Christine has developed unique, fun and practical ways to identify the cause and effect of a life time of behaviours and how implementing small changes can have a massive impact on results. She effectively combines the rational and emotional responses to improve performance. This gives Christine a leading edge in supporting others to make sustainable changes in behaviour and performance, particularly relevant for people facing and managing change and in all aspects of personal development.
As part of her approach to learning she has designed, and marketed a change management board game, glueless about change and a Life Plan designed to support and gain a healthy balance in the key aspects of life, Career, Health, Finance etc.
A member of the British Psychology Society and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, her degree in Psychology supports the integration of behavioural issues and tools such as Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Transactional Analysis (TA) and Transformational and Accelerated Learning.
CORE SKILLS
Neuro Linguistic Programming NLP Practitioner and coach, Emotional Intelligence BarOn EQ-I and MSCEIT self report and ability tests, Transactional Analysis TA, Diploma in Transformational Learning, Level A & B Psychometric Test Certification for ability testing e.g. numerical, verbal etc. and various personality questionnaires including SHL and ASE range, 360 feedback tools, Watson Glaser and Intrinsic tests , Strength Deployment Inventory SDI - motivation and conflict, LIFO Development Inventory, design and delivery of bespoke training solutions aimed at improving personal performance, includes skills for leadership, engagement, team working, relationships and interpersonal, personal impact and presentation, assertiveness, confidence, sales and service, culture and business change including the development of a management game and a life planning tool.
Kevan Mcavoy
An Engineering graduate of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, with a Postgraduate Diploma in Manufacturing Management from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. His corporate career is focussed on Manufacturing Operations Leadership in the Automotive and Aerospace sectors with multinational blue chip organisations.
He has worked internationally for a company such as Rockwell, Allied Signal, Knorr Bremse CSV, Johnson Controls Automotive, Moog Controls and Guilford Automotive at all levels from Shop to Board.
An Internationally experienced Six Sigma deployment leader, 6 Sigma Academy Blackbelt and Lean Practitioner he now provides Six Sigma Consultancy and deployment support, as well as Interim Operations Management in Business Turnaround and Business Process Redesign.
CORE SKILLS
Six Sigma, Complete Lean Manufacturing suite of tools (SMED, 5S, Kaizen, TPM etc), Toyota Production System and all aspects of manufacturing operations including Production Management, Production Planning and Control (MRPII), Purchasing, Sourcing, Supply Chain Development, Industrial Engineering, New Product Introduction, Program Management and SPC. These core skills are supported by a demonstrated ability to develop and mentor excellent Team and Individual performance in a changing business environment at all levels in an organisation.
Paul Cook
Paul is an experienced project manager and has helped clients to identify and define problems, integrate projects and establish change programmes. He has planned projects, resourced them and identified the costs and benefits. He has established programme management disciplines on major projects. He has been trained in PwC's project and programme management (PMM) methodology.
Paul is a highly skilled consultant with excellent client management skills developed over 14 years of business experience. He is experienced at designing and running workshops, conducting client interviews, applying analyses to support decision making and strategy development. He has excellent written and oral communications skills and has made many client presentations. He has demonstrated these skills working in both the private and public sectors. He specialises in supply chain management and has experience in customer relationship management. He has worked for major clients in retailing, distribution, retail banking and government.
CORE SKILLS
Statistical analysis, business modelling and forecasting, Statistical training, Warehouse planning, inventory modelling, Demand planning and Forecasting, Warehouse and Distribution strategy, Call Centre Planning and Performance Assessment, Process Improvement and Change Management, Performance Management and Measures, Programme and Project Management, IT strategy in government.
Paul Jenkins
Paul Jenkins was educated at Rotherham College of Technology, gaining the Higher National Diploma and College Associateship in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The further qualification of MBA has been gained from Leicester University. His training has been in Engineering and Major Plant Management, Cultural Audits, Plant Performance Audit, Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Strategic Development and Business Process Re-Engineering(BPR)
He has accumulated over 35 years practical experience gained within major process plants, including British Steel Corporation, Shell Petroleum Company, Pilkington Glass and Sketchley Services. Having commenced on the shop floor he has worked at all levels gaining a wide range of experience including that of operating at board level as General Manager responsible for all aspects of the business. Paul has operated for the last six years as an independent consultant in a variety of process industries.
CORE SKILLS
Paul works with senior management to improve operational performance through the implementation of specific projects, the analysis of current production and maintenance procedures along with a review of key strategic objectives. He is an accomplished expert in project, manufacturing and engineering management. Paul works to improve operational effectiveness using the following core skills:- Culture analysis, Plant Maintainability, Plant Performance Audit, Project Management, Kaizen, Team Working, Operations Strategy Development, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Interpersonal Skills Development, Process Flow & Plant Layout Design, Maintenance System Design & Implementation.
Trevor Potter
Trevor Potter is an Engineering graduate of Sheffield University and Fellow in manufacturing management from Cranfield University . His background followed a traditional design and Project route until attending Cranfield where his career emphasis shifted to manufacturing management. His training has been in Manufacturing Management, Business Improvement, Supply Chain management, Project Management Transformation, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Category Management, JIT, BPR , KPI and Best Practise development.
He has worked for companies such as Motorola, Avon Tyres, Magnetti Marelli, Invensys, GKN and has held increasing levels of responsibility up to and including UK Board level. In all these organisations he has constantly strived to develop both Business and People focussed improvement . He is an innovator of change.
The last 5 years has seen him work with some innovative and influential consultant groups through The Ferrers Partnership Limited which he founded in October 2001. He has worked with these groups in both the Public and Private sectors and in operational areas ranging from Risk Based Decision making, in the rail sector, supply chain and category management in the defence sector through to Transformation projects in the media and Broadcasting sector. He is an accomplished Project manager and innovator of sustainable solutions.
CORE SKILLS
Operations management, Supply Chain, Business Process Consulting and redesign, Manufacturing Management, Project management, Category management, Business Transformation, Health &Safety, Cultural change, New Product Introduction,
Fiona Beaumont
Fiona has over 12 years experience as a business consultant in organisations across many industry sectors. She is an innovative and creative Change Management and Business Transformation Consultant and Executive Coach with a large diversity of experience. She has a wide range of skills gained within the context of business transformation in a number of high profile industry sectors, both public and private. She works with all levels of an organisation, from board level of global corporations, to ground floor in small business
Recent assignments have included an appointment as the Global Business Change Manager for Cable and Wireless. In this role she Created CWG's external Organisation Change Management consulting practice, including it's offerings and capabilities. She built the global OC team to support CWG business transformation, established CWG Change Management community of practice, facilitated the development and rollout of CWG Change Management framework, piloted the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Change Toolkit for e initiatives, established Stakeholder Management Approach for Business Transformation, facilitated Organisation Design process to create Global Business Transformation organisation and designed the Operations communications strategy and had a key role in implementing it.
CORE SKILLS
Change Management: proven track record in designing and implementing programmes in both small and large organisations.
People Development: wide range of experience covering technical training, leadership development and director coaching.
Communications: strong background in developing and delivering communications strategies for large organisations.
Facilitation: has proven to be very effective in facilitation and can use these skills in a wide variety of situations.
Project Management: has an excellent record of delivering projects on time, to budget, within recognised project management frameworks.
Nick Greville
Nick Greville is a graduate Manufacturing Systems Engineer from the University of Bath, UK. His training extends to many areas of manufacturing, including Quality Assurance, Total Productive Maintenance, Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing including 5S and Value Stream Mapping, Bottleneck identification and elimination, Health & Safety including Risk Assessments, Team Building and Leading, and Benchmarking.
He has worked for many international companies from shop floor to senior management. These companies include Siemens, Renishaw, Rexam and Amcor
Nick has a passion for UK manufacturing and has developed the ability to bring about change within an organisation. He is confident about communicating at all levels and has a record of achieving real improvements where his proactive approach of actively involving employees has resulted in significant cost-savings, including within very 'traditional' environments.
He now specialises in offering a practical Lean Manufacturing advice service to those companies with a desire to change. He can offer a step-by-step process for introducing robust Lean techniques within an organisation and also a 'Kaizen Blitz' approach to specific bottleneck areas.
CORE SKILLS
Lean Manufacturing techniques, Bottleneck Removal, Just in Time (JIT), Kanban, TPM (Total Preventative Maintenance), Statistical Process Control, (SPC), SMED (single minute exchange of dies), Kaizen, Supplier Development, 5S, Business Process Redesign (BPR), Management and Operator Training, Team Building and Leading, Total Quality Management, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Materials Requirements planning, Cultural Change, New Product Introduction, Design For Manufacture (DFM), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Project Management.
Paul Wright
With 25 years' experience of process and quality management followed by senior training and development roles in SME's and multi-nationals, Paul's energy and enthusiasm for rooting out waste and embedding Continuous Improvement has saved his clients millions of pounds.
In addition to his experience with Lean and Kaizen Paul has worked in Europe, America and Mexico helping organisations to maximise the potential of their people through outstanding management and team development programs.
His unique blend of commercial awareness and pragmatic approach to organisational or personal change underpins his passion for supporting organisations to create world class performance through their own people.
Paul's focus in change management, Lean enterprise programmes, training and culture change is underpinned by a driving belief in the potential of people.
Paul is a graduate of Bournemouth University with a degree in Operations Management.
CORE SKILLS
Accelerated learning in most management development topics, coaching, Lean, Workout (kaizen blitz), TPM (total productive maintenance), SMED (fast changeover) Kaizen, 5S, process mapping, value stream mapping, value added flow analysis, team development, inter-personal skills
John Britton
Malcolm Burr
Malcolm is a qualified engineer gained through a 5-year apprenticeship and with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing. More recently has attended the Harvard Business School to complete a number of executive leadership programs including "Leading product development", "Leadership best Practice" and "Leading Change and Organisational Renewal ".
He has over 25 years experience in engineering and manufacturing working with technology and automated based companies ranging from SME's to large international Plc's. Malcolm has successfully delivered over 40 new products developments, from low cost/high volume manufacturing sites and markets around the world (Asia, Europe, US) to low volume locally supplied manufacturing sites.
He has worked internationally for companies such as De La Rue as a senior executive for over 11 years heading up the Research & Development division and was responsible for four engineering group's world wide. He has worked at all levels within companies from corporate executive level to shop floor. He has also worked as an Operational manager for a number of SME'S where he was responsible for all aspects of manufacturing.
Since then Malcolm has moved into consultancy where he specialises in all aspects of product development, management and manufacturing management. In particular DFM (Design For Manufacture), product cost reductions, NPI (New Product Introduction), process improvements, development phase gate process and Process mapping.
CORE SKILLS
DFM (Design For Manufacture), Product development and process improvements, Product cost reductions, NPI (New Product Introduction), Development phase gate process, leadership and strategy development in R&D, leading change, change management, Project management, Process mapping, FMEA,
Jennifer Fitzgerald
Jennifer is an experienced facilitator, trainer and executive coach who designs and delivers programmes to improve personal performance and effect behavioural change. She has credentials in both business and coaching. Jennifer has lived and worked abroad extensively and brings broad perspectives gained in a variety of geographical markets and business sectors. She speaks French and German.
Jennifer is a languages graduate and holds a MBA from Cranfield University. Her career started as a fundraiser for a development agency, where she raised over £4m in value p.a. in grants from the UK Government and European Community, for programmes running in Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia. She moved into business in 1990, when she was hired by Barclaycard to work with the Supervisory Board of a Barclays-owned card processing business in Hamburg. Several marketing roles at Barclaycard followed, with Jennifer making a major contribution to Barclaycard's successful launches in Germany and a number of other European markets.
In 1995, Jennifer moved to MasterCard in Brussels (formerly known as Europay) where she headed up the department responsible for new product development and product management of MasterCard-branded cards in Europe. This included developing and implementing product strategies, launching new product ranges and supporting banks in developing their credit card programmes. Many European markets were experiencing over 30% growth p.a. during this time.
In 2001, Jennifer moved to a division of SchlumbergerSema, which subsequently became part of Atos Origin, a global card manufacturer and a leading European IT services company respectively. Here she worked as a Principal Consultant specialising in payment cards. She led a small team running training courses for European banks and advised government agencies on the implementation of smart card programmes.
Having retrained as an executive coach and a trainer, Jennifer began working independently in 2005, providing management consultancy, executive coaching and soft skills training to leading companies both in the UK and overseas. She also runs courses in NLP (neurolinguistic programming), a leading methodology for personal development applied in most leading-edge training and personal development programmes today.
CORE SKILLS
Jennifer offers workshops and training courses in a wide range of skills, including: Career planning, coaching skills, commercial sense, communications, consultancy skills, creativity, customer care, influencing skills, leadership, motivation, NLP, effective relationships, self confidence and assertiveness building, selling skills, training and facilitation skills, and business writing.
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