Matt offers more than 15 years of experience as an industrial engineer, trainer, change agent and management consultant helping small to large hospitals and Fortune 25 to 1000 manufacturing and retail corporations.

Matt’s “Lean Thinking” pedigree stems from Lean Sensei’s at Freudenburg, NOK, Toyota Motor Corporation and a vast array of businesses that have successfully forged through continuous improvement initiatives.

Matt worked for Motorola, Inc. for over 4 years and received his Six Sigma certification that he has trained others in Green Belt and Black Belt certification tools and techniques.

Accomplishments:
• Cumulative cost savings amounting to nearly $30 million dollars
• Worked with more than 100 companies across North America and Western Europe
• Trained nearly 3,500 employee’s in lean manufacturing, six sigma, quality and performance improvement
• Performed over 80 Lean Kaizen events that total over $10 million in cost savings
• Managed over 75 industrial projects including outsourcing, new equipment installs & logistics, plant consolidation, and commercial zoning and construction saving $100,000 to $2 million dollars on each project.
• Designed over 20 manufacturing/hospital facilities ranging from 1,000 to 1 million square feet
Matt’s exceptional understanding of the human side of change, our customer and the value driven world allows him to relate to people, listen to what they are truly after, and provide ideas and solutions that enable More Effective success. back to top

Dave's progressive experience using IE methods in healthcare organizations started in 1970, while graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering. His first position was Engineer on the Nurse Utilization Project, funded by the Kellogg Foundation. That project was based on leading nursing staff teams through the systems design methodology to develop and implement the best known processes to meet patient care needs.

Since then, Dave LaCourse has continued to apply IE in healthcare organizations, working for consulting firms, individual hospitals, multi-hospital systems, and as an independent consultant.

He has performed departmental and multi-disciplinary projects in more than 50 healthcare organizations across the United States. He has an alliance with More Effective Consulting to help educate and serve New England hospitals. back to top

A Master Black Belt with more than 15 years experience leading in quality in automotive, electronics, metal stampings, and plastics industries. Brian has inordinate knowledge and a breadth of experiences in six sigma, lean manufacturing, quality engineering, manufacturing management, and ISO/QS9000 quality systems.

Some specific examples of his experience:

• Certified over 400 green and black belts in six sigma training and projects.

• Managed 7 product line supervisors responsible for over 400 hourly union employees, 2 schedulers, and 2 expediters for seven distinct product lines serving the Automotive Industry.

• Saved companies he has served over $10 Million dollars in cumulative savings

• Managed ISO implementations and auditing programs

• Served lean manufacturing projects as Kaizen leader in projects encompassing 3P (Production Planning Process, 5S, Productivity, Cycle Time reduction and Quality)

• Established Lean Performance Management Systems for three manufacturing companies that aligns shop floor performance results with P&L effectiveness back to top

Mike brings with him a breadth of industrial engineering experiences that provide clients swift and decisive analysis, designs and solutions. 

Mike helps clients in difficult expansion, flow and process design challenges by providing lean manufacturing perspectives or capacity growth and flexibility decisions. Clients appreciate the spectrum of his expertise from shop floor operations management to executive team facility and design advice.

There is another professional side of Mike with a passion for user interface product designs and human factor engineering that give clients a broad array of human and technical expertise.

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Melissa began working as a consultant in 1994.  Prior to working with corporate clients, Melissa’s work in leadership development began at Merrowvista Education Center, 1994 – 1995 where she worked on their ropes course as an outdoor educator and led groups on biking, canoeing and hiking trips in the White Mountains. 

As a corporate consultant, Melissa’s leadership, team development and strategic implementation programs have served a broad range of industries from health care to school systems to fortune 500 companies. The focus of her work with managers is supporting their transition from tacticians to strategic and influential leaders.

Some of her clients include Human Resource Managers Development Program at the University of Michigan, Waterford Wedgwood, BAE Systems, Saint Gobain, The Hartford, Charter One and American Airlines. 

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Scott Sutton provides superior Quality Management Systems & Lean Manufacturing consulting utilizing strong skills in ISO 9001:2000/ISO 13485/QS9000/AS9100, Quality Engineering and Lean/Six Sigma Best Practices. Scott offers over eighteen years’ experience contributing to Fortune 100, 500 & small business success.

Achievement Highlights:
Lean Manufacturing/Healthcare – 20 Kaizen, 5 VSA, 5 Lean training events over the past 18 months generating $21million accumulated team cost avoidance/savings for client.

ISO Auditing & Coordination - 10 ISO certification/surveillance audits within 18 months as Lead Auditor. Coordinated - efforts to achieve ISO 9001:2000 certification as ISO Representative for eight years with an accredited Registrar. Generate Certification Audits as a Lead Auditor with two leading Registrars.

Inventory Reduction - A dock-to-stock raw material system reducing cycle time, saving approximately $90,000/year in handling and inspection time using LeanMfg./Six Sigma.

New Product Development - Advanced quality planning on new products using PPAP, PFMEA, GR&R and Cpk.

Quality Management - Raw material rejects by quantifying and creative root cause analysis. Projects for calculating the cost of quality and customer returns as benchmarks for continuous improvement.

Facility Layout & Design – Plant layout using cellular flow design and AutoCAD ensuring adequate space, flow and future flexibility.

Supply Chain Management – Coordinated supplier development programs, facilitate GTI/AVCOG & CBW&L grants for SPC, team training/implementation, lean manufacturing In-depth 5S and quality cost. back to top