about meLEAN SIGMA PROFESSIONAL & SPORTS COACH

Andy Goddard – CEO & Founder of Lean Leadership COACH

Introduction

Brief History:

  • Extensive knowledge and experience in leading, training, coaching and implementing Lean/Sigma at both strategic and operational levels in many different environments. These include manufacturing and assembly lines, aircraft and vehicle maintenance, warehouse & distribution, emergency services, Banking, Telecommunications and many more….
  • A practicing Lean Leader & Coach for over 20 years in the UK, Saudi Arabia & Australia and has worked on some of the biggest military aircraft and commercial airline projects in the world. Starting as a Team Leader learning process improvement at grass roots and progressively advancing to more senior Leadership roles involved in delivering large scale change with impressive results in many environments. An avid student of the Toyota Way and mentored by Toyota Leaders has helped develop a deep understanding of transformation using Lean Sigma as a vehicle to improve. CV 

Now:

  • Provides Training, facilitation, coaching and consults with many diverse companies on Lean, Six Sigma, cultural change management and helps Leaders to learn and implement the Lean Business System through real employee engagement and hands on support.
  • Helps create the environment for involvement, empowerment and contribution to achieve great results. We help facilitate change, challenge old beliefs, programming & paradigms to deliver process improvement with employees for Customer value and improved business results.
  • With a history in sports coaching we also take knowledge and inspiration from elite sports teams, clubs and athletes on how they think, their attitude, mindset and beliefs in achieving goals and inject these principles and spirit into business improvement.
  • As well as that, we are truly passionate about business improvement, high performance, and the potential that lives within each one of us because we all have unlimited personal potential to make a difference. The challenge is finding the key to unlock and unleash it, and finding those keys is the real inspiration of Lean Leadership COACH.

More about Me

Things you don’t know about me

  • Tennis player & ex professional coach
  • Skiing in Winter, Beach in Summer
  • Music, Travelling, exploring the world is a passion (See photo’s to the right)
  • Serial Entrepreneur!
  • Real Estate Investor,  Professional Forex Trader
  • Raving Fan of Green Smoothies!!
  • Fine Wine and Dining
  • Mountain Biking, Gym, High Intensity Fitness training (Stay Lean!)
  • Climbed to Everest Base Camp & Machu Pichu summit 2016 (That’s me at Everest in the photo’s!)
  • Study Sports & Business Psychology, NLP, studying high performance mindset
  • Study Neuro-science and its effect on improvement and change
  • Research and enthusiast for Lean, Six Sigma, Business Improvement
  • Passionate about personal growth and personal development
  • Ran the 2015/2016 Melbourne Half Marathon in under 2 Hrs

Random Facts

  • Old friends call me Josh!
  • Former Club DJ through the 90’s, 00’s
  • Was ranked in the top 10 juniors in the UK aged 11 for middle distance running
  • Always wanted to be a professional tennis player
  • Favourite Food is Vietnamese / Thai

Positive Motto’s

  • Anything can be achieved if we put our mind to it…
  • Our inner thinking creates our outer reality…
  • If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got
  • Whatever the mind can perceive and believe, it can achieve…
  • There are no limits, only the ones you put on yourself in your mind…
  • If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you won’t, its up to you…
  • Doing the same thing over and over is the definition of madness…make a change 
  • Those people that say it can’t be done, should move out of the way of those that believe it can be done…

Our Core Values

TRUST & INTEGRITY

We believe that trust is the foundation from which everything else flows. All relationships are based on trust and integrity. Great leaders inspire trust. Trust is built on character (honesty, fairness and openness) and saying what you will do and doing what you say…

RESPECT

We believe in treating people as we want to be treated. With respect and dignity. Our colleagues, clients, customers and employees because everyone deserves respect for who they are, what they know and what they do. 

PARTNERSHIP / COLLABORATION

We believe in the power and strength of unity, team work and collective working towards a vision or goal. Working as a team creates strength in numbers, skill, knowledge and momentum to reach a greater result from synergy 2+2 = 5