about me

Mr John Smith

Introduction

Andrew is a leading authority. expert and trainer of Lean Sigma, Business Improvement, Cultural Change Management, Continuous Improvement and strategic Lean Transformation.

Andrew has extensive knowledge and experience in leading, coaching and implementing Lean/Sigma at both strategic and operational levels in may different environments including manufacturing, assembly, office, service, aircraft and vehicle maintenance, warehousing, Emergency Services, Blood Processing, etc.

Andrew has been a Lean Leader & Coach in Business for over 20 years as a Master Lean Coach & Six Sigma Black belt. Learning Lean from the grass roots level, experimenting first as a Team Leader, a Change Manager and working with and learning from Toyota Leaders, Andy has since driven change and improvement in large Blue chip organisations, worked alongside many leading consultants in the UK, Australia, and has been part of and led Strategic Change Programmes using Lean as the vehicle for improvement.

Experience

Andrew has worked with many multi-national companies, at all levels around the world and has developed his Lean knowledge through working with, for and alongside many of the worlds leading consultancy groups including McKinsey, Ernst & Young, SMMT Masterclass Engineers, Unipart, S.A Partners as well as being mentored by Toyota Managers for over 3 years. Each one of these experiences has helped him to grow as a Lean Leader and teacher. Much of Andrew's knowledge is from experience and hands on application and experimentation, as well as study and research. 

More recently Andrew has  been learning from many International, motivational and inspirational thought leaders and speakers such as Richard Branson, Simon Sinek, Tony Robbins, Brendon Bouchard, Deepak Chopra, Kerwin RAe and combines his business knowledge with teachings from new breakthrough thinking from the worlds of personal development, sports psychology, advanced motivational theories, high performance NLP, nuero-science with Lean thinking and business improvement to model success and change the inner game to improve outer results.

Personal Pursuits | Things you don't know about me out of work

  • Tennis player & coach
  • Skiing in Winter, Beach in Summer
  • Music, Travelling, exploring the world is a passion
  • Investor, Trade Forex. Languages, Green Smoothies!!
  • Tennis player & coach
  • Skiing in Winter, Beach in Summer
  • Music, Travelling, exploring the world is a passion
  • Investor, Trade Forex. Languages, Green Smoothies!!

Random Facts 

  • Tennis player & coach
  • Skiing in Winter, Beach in Summer
  • Music, Travelling, exploring the world is a passion
  • Investor, Trade Forex. Languages, Green Smoothies!!
  • Tennis player & coach
  • Skiing in Winter, Beach in Summer
  • Music, Travelling, exploring the world is a passion
  • Investor, Trade Forex. Languages, Green Smoothies!!

Motto’s 

Anything can be achieved if we put our mind to it Our inner thinking creates our outer reality  Whatever the mind can perceive and believe, it can achieve…