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Lean Leadership Summit
The "Rock Stars of Lean!" An absolutely unprecedented assemblage of many of the most capable and successful executive Lean Leaders on the planet in an intimate setting to share how they transformed their operations to create competitive advantage to grow their businesses.
Confirmed Attendees:
ADAM ZAK EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Principal

AERA ENERGY
President-CEO
Process Manager-CPE-TPR
VP-Center for Process Excellence
Process Analyst-CPE-TPR-Lean Six Sigma

ALCON RESEARCH, LTD.
Sr. Planner/Buyer
Production Manager
Associate Director, Cataract Operations

AMERICAN CASTING CO.
Plant Manager

ALCOA
EVP (retired)
Director, Alcoa Operations Management
System, and former Toyota Supplier
Development Manager

APRIA HEALTHCARE
VP, Supply Chain Management

 ASSOCIATED WAREHOUSE INC.
Vice President

 ATK
Director - Operations
Sr. Manager, Supply Chain
Product Director

ATK SPACE
Director - Operations
Programs Manager

ATK SPACE STRUCTURES
Vice President & GM

ATK SPACE STRUCTURES & COMPONENTS
Vice President & GM

ATK SPACE SYSTEMS
VP & GM Strategy & Business Development
VP & GM Solar Arrays and Deployables

AVERY DENNISON
ELS Champion Office Products
VP Global Operations & Supply Chain, Office Products
ELS Project Leader
Director - Supply Chain Finance, Office Products
ELS Champion Office Products
Director - ELS Roll Materials North America
West Coast Regisonal Finishing Ctr Mgr
Director Customer Partnerships
Director - US & Canada Operations, Office Products
Senior Director - Global Procurement
ELS Sensei-Global Operations
Senior Director - ELS
Enterprise Lean Sigma Director
VP Global Oper & Enterprise Lean Sigma
Manager, ELS Technology & Communications
Senior Engineer
ELS Sensei - Global Operations

BRAUN CORPORATION
EVP

B BRAUN MEDICAL INC.
BPS Spe t
BPS Spe t
Materials Manager
Business Unit Director
Associate Director BPS Office
General Manager

BIO-RAD LABORATORIES
Lean Manager
Plant Operations Manager

BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE-LEARJET
VP & General Manager

C & D ZODIAC
General Manager
Operations Development
Manufacturing Engineer
Vice President Supply Chain
Executive Vice President
Director of Planning
Vice President Quality
Operations Development
Director of Supply Chain

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
Students

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor
Students

CENTER FOR INTL. TRADE & TRANSPORTATION
Director of Research

CENTER FOR QUALITY PEOPLE & ORGANIZATION (Toyota-funded non-profit)
Executive Director

CHARLOTTE RUSSE
Director of Supply Chain

CLIMAX PORTABLE MACHINE TOOLS
VP Operations

CONSORTIUM OF LEAN ORGANIZATIONS
Executive Director

CORPORATIVO GRUPO IMSA
Corporate E Business Consultant

CORT BUSINESS SERVICES
Executive Director

Dana Corporation
Past CEO, Vice Chairman, now Senior Advisor

DJO (Best Plant & Shingo Prize Winner)
VP of Lean & Enterprise Excellence

GENERAL MOTORS
Regional Director, Operations

GENIE INDUSTRIES
Kaizen Workshop Leader
Kaizen Office Manager
Production Manager
VP North American Operations

HM ELECTRONICS
Director of Manufacturing
President

HOAG HOSPITAL
Manager of Utilities Operations

JOHN DEERE & COMPANY
Manager Logistics Operations
Manager Midwest Region Logistics

JOHNSON & JOHNSON
Director - R&D

JONES LANG LASALLE
Vice President

LEAN CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC
CEO & President
Managing Director
Exceutive Consultant

LEAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
Chairman & Founder
President, Lean Enterprise Turkey

LSI CONSULTING GROUP LLC
President

MISSION RUBBER
Materials Manager
Clamp Department Manager
Production Manager
Inventory Control Manager

NESTLE WATERS NORTH AMERICA
Customer Supply Chain Manager

NFI DISTRIBUTION & LOGISTICS
Vice President of Sales
Director of Sales

NORTHWESTERN HIGH PERFORMANCE ENTERPRISE CONSORTIUM
Executive Director

NESTLE WATERS NORTH AMERICA
Customer Supply Chain Manager

QSC AUDIO PRODUCTS LLC
VP of Manufacturing Operations
Manufacturing Manager
Senior Industrial Engineer
Industrial Engineer
Manufacturing Supervisor

RAYTHEON CORPORATION
Packaging Engineer
Manager, Logistics
Shipping Manager

REGAL BELOIT CORPORATION
VP, Critical Business Processes
Global Master Black Belt
Global Black Belt

RESOURCES GLOBAL PROFESSIONALS
Supply Chain Director

RYDER
VP, Distribution Management

SAFEWAY
Director of Dairy Operations
VP of Manufacturing
VP of Dairy Manufacturing
Director Distribution Operations
VP Of Logistics
VP of Transportation

SAFEWAY-VONS
Director of Warehouse Operation
Director of Warehouse Distribution
Director of Distribution
Director of Logistics

SMART & FINAL
SVP, Supply Chain

SMITH & WESSON CORP.
VP of Product Design & Management

SWIFT TRANSPORTATION
EVP

TBD CONSULTING, INC.
Senior Consultant

TEREX LIGHT CONSTRUCTION
Engineering Manager

TOYOTA ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA/TMMK
Author & General Manager, IT (retired)

TOYOTA ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA/TMMK/NUMMI
EVP/President/EVP (retired)

TOYOTA MOTOR SALES USA
VP North American Parts Operations
VP & Dean, University of Toyota
Corporate Manager Supply Chain Strategy
National Manager, University of Toyota
Asst Manager, Toyota Supplier Support Cente
Manager, University of Toyota
Programs Manager, University of Toyota
Curriculum Manager Manager, University of Toyota
Past Corporate Manager, North American Parts Center Operations

TOYOTA SUPPLIER SUPPORT CENTER
Asst. General Manager

TOYOTA NORTH AMERICAN PARTS LOGISTICS DIVISION
GVP & General Manager (retired)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES
Students

UCLA HOSPITAL SYSTEM
COO

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Vice Chief of Staff

VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS
Vice President, Global Reagents Operations
Senior Manager, Reagents Process Engineering
Director, Integrated Product Team

WEBER DISTRIBUTION
VP Client Solutions

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Much more than a one-day learning event!  We're not looking for passive listeners.  We want senior leaders committed to building competitive advantage and growing their business—and key members of their staffs who help lead and facilitate the transformation of your enterprise—to use this event as the launching pad for an ongoing collaborative effort among Southern California companies and the partners in this unique event.


  • You  will benefit from meeting and collaborating with like-minded Lean Leaders from other organizations.

  • Each of our event partners (LEI, AME, APICS, Shingo Prize, CSCMP, WERC, DMA, USC, SoCal Consortium of Lean Organizations, and numersous Toyota "alumni" offer a huge variety of educational and collaborative opportunities to fuel your change initiative.

    Every speaker is an executive Lean Leader with a solid understanding that Lean is a system for solving problems in the total business system, not just "a set of tools" applied on the factory floor.  You will learn:

  • How the COO of the 8,000 unionized employee UCLA Health System raised customer satisfaction ratings from the 38 percentile to the 95 percentile to become the #3 rated U.S. hospital with 100% occupancy!

  • How Avery Dennison’s $1B Office Products Division, facing a declining mature market and low cost competition, transformed themselves into a growth machine through process and product innovation.

  • How Toyota achieves the industry's best service in their $4B service parts business with double the inventory turns of their competitors.

  • How a 220-store retail grocery chain facing new competition from big box discounters applied Lean Thinking to every part of their business to reverse declining sales to grow 60% in four years.

  • How Alcoa created their own internal Lean consulting team that wrings out annual savings of over $100MM per year.

  • From an Air Force 4-star general how they are transforming their Lean deployment strategy and metrics for huge benefits in their 700,000 member global organization.

  • How Toyota's intelligent use of IT and enterprise process reengineering enabled them to change vehicle specifications to individual customer requirements just 5 days before final assembly.

  • How Learjet's general manager (an ex-Toyota guy) created the most efficient plant in Bombardier Aerospace’s 9 global plants.

  • How a German Volkswagen executive learned from Toyota to see and lead in a Lean system—and landed a COO job with a major global company.

  • How the retired Dean of the University of Toyota and Director of Special Olympics applied Lean Thinking with his board to transform their strategy to effectively drive fundraising in this difficult economy.  (An important lesson in the health care debate.)

    Plus practical presentations and training programs for your team—programs full of concepts and ideas they can begin implementing as soon as they return to work:

  • Lean Manufacturing from practitioners who have "done it," including an introduction from the Asst GM of the Toyota Supplier Support Center that aids North American suppliers in implementing TPS to meet Toyota's rigorous requirements; VP from the winner of IndustryWeek's Best Plant award dn the Shingo Prize for excellence in manufacturing, an EVP who transformed a 35-year old culture, a former Toyota Asst GM and co-author of Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way will explain the Toyota Plant Management System.

  • Lean Supply Chain tracks includes the grocery chain and two Toyota executive presentation listed above plus an introduction to key concepts of a Lean supply chain from the retired GVP who led Toyota's North American service parts supply chain transformation, and two half-day simulation workshops teaching how Toyota achieves 50% higher labor productivity in its warehouses and how Toyota creates an efficient level logistics flow through its supply chain to achieve the industry's most efficient inventory and low costs.

    Even the breaks will be learning opportunities, as presenters and many Toyota alumni will be available to tell you how "Lean" works in the company that invented Lean.

    Please join us and bring your core team to this once in a lifetime executive learning event—and transform your operations into a competitive weapon for growth!

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