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Sample Projects

We have helped companies in many ways across a wide variety of industries.  Below are examples of some of the projects we have led or participated in.

Engineered Products Manufacturer

  • Transformed structure and culture of 400-person, 3-shift workforce

  • Traditional hierarchy to self-directed work teams

  • Top-down decision making to floor-level problem solving

  • Teams support ongoing Lean implementation

  • Created sponsorship and ownership from senior level to floor

High-Speed/High-Volume Manufacturer

  • Led change management of 5-division cellular manufacturing implementation

  • Built shared vision for company, involving all divisions

  • Co-led 10 separate plant-transformations within divisions

  • Developed 11 leadership teams and over 100 individual leaders

  • Trained and developed over 50 internal change agents

International High-Volume Materials Distributor

  • Led Change management effort for large plastics distributor moving from over 50 independent locations to 5 hub-spoke distribution centers

  • Developed leadership team -- from visioning to results

  • Trained and developed over 75 internal change agents

  • Led 7 “back office process” kaizens resulting in $1.2MM in savings and improvements

Global Consumer Goods Manufacturer

  • Led change management of 13 Vision-to-Action teams as part of global leadership development project

  • Trained over 125 VP and above level managers using intensive action learning framework in 8 countries

 International Insurance Company

  • Transformed $400MM commercial division of global insurance company

  • Implementation of market segmentation process and required change in mindset to support it

  • Flattening of decision making process

  • Development of entrepreneurial leadership

  • Developed senior team through feedback, coaching and development workshops

Global Electronics Manufacturer

  • Co-Led cultural transformation of global consumer electronics manufacturer

  • Creation of change-model to apply to +$10B business

  • Development of leadership at all levels

  • Transition of massive HR organization from traditional to business partner model

  • Consulted to team through $100MM product development process

  • Consulted to multiple senior teams making transition to new business model

Industry-Leading Software System Developer

  • Transformed system implementation process and division

  • Co-led move from traditional to consultative selling and implementation model

  • Trained over 150 internal implementation consultants

  • Developed and administered leadership academy for high potential leaders

  • Consulted to several teams executing improvement projects accounting for hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings and over $1MM in improvements

 

 
 
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Last modified: 02/22/03