Matt offers more than 18 years of experience as a Lean Master Black Belt, industrial engineer, trainer, change agent and management consultant helping small to large hospitals and Fortune 25 to 1000 manufacturing corporations.

Matt’s “Lean Thinking” pedigree stems from Freudenberg-NOK, Toyota Motor Corporation, Motorola and a vast array of businesses that have successfully forged through continuous improvement initiatives.  Since 2001, Matt has also helped more than 100 hospitals transform their business utilizing Lean Healthcare and Six Sigma tools and techniques.

Accomplishments:
• Cumulative cost savings amounting to nearly $35 million dollars
• Worked with more than 100 corporations across North America and Western Europe and 100 hospitals in the US and Canada.
• Trained nearly 3,500 employee’s in Lean Healthcare, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, quality and performance improvement
• Performed over 400 Lean Kaizen events that total over $15 million in cost savings
• Managed over 75 industrial projects including outsourcing, new equipment installs & logistics, plant consolidation, ERP/IT Systems Implementations and commercial design-build construction saving $100,000 to $2 million dollars on each project.
• Designed over 35 manufacturing/hospital facilities ranging from 1,000 to 1 million square feet
• In 2004, Matt created the first Lean Healthcare simulation product "Lean E.D.". Lean E.D. is the only Lean Healthcare simulation product sold on the market that contains 100% reference to hospitals. More than 100 Lean E.D.'s have been sold globally - even the largest Health System in the world - Apollo (India).
• Along with Lean E.D., Matt has 3 other Lean products patent pending: Lean Setup!, Push-Pull, and Vision Map

Matt’s exceptional understanding of the human side of change and a value driven world allow 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

Matt is an advocate for cancer awareness and an avid mountaineer.  He has combined those and teamed up with Summit For A Cure.  Visit his mountaineering bio at www.SummitForACure.com.

Robert’s passion and expertise is in problem solving the most challenging situations of any type process including transactional, service, quality, manufacturing or the front and back office. He is one that enjoys forging through unknown territory utilizing basic and advanced tools of lean, quality and project management. 

Robert helps hospitals and manufacturers conduct business assessments, engineers current state processes and he provides "Lean" advice for capacity, growth and efficiency.

For more than five years, clients have appreciated the spectrum of his expertise from shop floor operations management, hospital kaizen facilitation, business value stream mapping, facility design and optimization to Lean-Sigma transformations. Robert has interviewed, mapped and pursued perfection in all departments of a business, yielding more than 100 process maps that included the front office, back office, operations, and related supply chains.

Robert has experience in numerous industries such as capital equipment manufacturing, precision machining, medical device manufacturing, hospitals, airline services, agricultural equipment distribution, and IT. back to top

A Master Black Belt with more than 20 years experience in quality and performance of businesses, processes and products.  He is the quintessential improvement Marine to take with you in any battlefield.  He has extensive  experience 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 450 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 $15 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 and consulting experience that provide clients with swift and decisive analysis, designs, solutions and implementation. 

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. Mikes latest work with Boston area hospitals has helped the human side of Emergency Medicine with patient feedback systems.

Mike joined us after spending time with the engineering divisions of General Dynamics and Microsoft Corporation. He has worked for fortune 100 companies and various industries from retail distribution to medical device to industrial consumables. back to top

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 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 implementations have served a broad range of industries from hospitals and healthcare systems to schools and fortune 500 companies. Her forte is working with executives in 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. back to top

Drew has been deploying Lean since 2006. His Lean experience started with a 100 bed hospital in Rhode Island conducting events in Dietary, Facilities and Supply Chain. Drew continued to deploy Lean in Healthcare sweeping through Finance (billing, coding, collections) and the O.R. Today, Drew conducts Kaizen's and helps transform hospitals through training, kaizen's and projects. His strength centers on getting employees and managers to harness improvement and lead them to apply simple solutions that yield lasting results. 

Drew's expertise has evolved through experiences with manufacturing as well.   His skills in process mapping, Lean Kaizen's, data analysis and observation/Gemba studies provide clients with a thorough and collaborative approach that aids in transforming their business.    He has a passion for implementing the latest tools and analysis techniques that make all aspects of an engagement simplified so that ROI and results are the primary focus.

Some of his engagements include an array of Healthcare, Hospitals and manufacturing corporations that include a focus on supply chain, O.R., general & pilot manufacturing and overall Lean hospital operations. back to top

Erik offers over 8 years of experience with small to large corporations in operations improvements, inventory management and leading teams that get empowered and motivated to make lasting change. His unbiased and critical thinking has helped transform his client engagements from good to great. Erik has inordinate specialization in using the spectrum of industrial engineering and Lean-Six Sigma tools that solve critical problems and sustain years of continuous improvement. Since 2003 he has worked in over 15 types of operations from warehousing and transportation, back-office/transaction to service and manufacturing.  

Most recently, Erik played a role of operations manager at a challenging and unique environment. Erik managed the operations of an EcoLodge while directing a diverse workforce, accounting for daily schedule attainment, transforming inventory control policy and exceeding guest quality measures.  

From process mapping and time/motion studies to facility design and Lean transformations, Erik has provided clients with accurate and timely results that yielded more than 3:1 ROI.  Erik enjoys running Kaizen's in new environments and new industries with new techniques.  Erik's team's enjoy the process of continuous improvement with his unique style of facilitation - a JDI (Just Do It) success based model that leads to a motivating time.  Whether it's the back office with transactional or development processes or front line with clinical or production issues, Erik will advance the best sustainable and systematic solutions. back to top

Louise offers more than 25 years of experience in developing businesses to world class levels through market branding and image development, core competency and competitive edge facilitation, client retention and increased sales consulting. Louise tailors her expertise to many industries, but has recently been helping hospitals and healthcare providers, manufacturers and Fortune 25 companies to realize their vision of excellence.

Achievement Highlights:

• Through training grants and LWIB (Local Workforce Investment Boards), established a customer service excellence program to enhance training and retain one of the largest trades related companies in Washington County, Maine. One invaluable instance increased job performance saving 19 jobs and creating 7 new jobs.

• Facilitated Lean 101 seminars for distribution companies like Kimberly Clark, Maumelle, AR

• Established the Washington County Maine Business Conference & Expo, now in its 7th year. It is now the model for the Governor’s Council on Small Business Conferences in Augusta, Maine.

• Coordinated grants awarded for restoration of historic train station, box car, and 36 miles of rail to trail

• Established Northern Maine regional summit of executives from the non-profit, tourism, hospitals, & business sector to develop an eco-tourism model to replace local economies dependant on major industries like the paper mills and fishing.

Industry Background:

• Automotive, Warehousing & Distribution, Hospitals, Semiconductor, Insurance, Telecommunication, DOD, DOE, DOF, Small and Minority Business Enterprises