Create a Continuous Flow of Improvements

Stephen Wilkinson is a certified lean practitioner with an MBA and a BS in science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His improvement career started as an Army airborne combat engineer, where he turned around the failing performance of the brigade motor pool maintenance. After serving 4 years with the Army, he took an assignment as the Pringles potato chip lab and Pampers production manager at P&G. At Gillette, he managed projects at increasing leadership levels in industrial engineering and co-led the lean transformation of the Gillette facility. As a senior IE, he led improvements at Amgen in Rhode Island. The leaders at Amgen entrusted Stephen with his most significant projects, such as improving production cycle time and developing the breakthrough "Observe Analyze Improve," which eliminated 100,000 labor hours of non-value-adding effort. Stephen authors corporate playbooks on leading "Kaizen," "Standard Work," and "How to Observe Your Process for Improvement Opportunities." After training 1,200 professionals, saving millions of dollars, and implementing hundreds of improvements, Stephen now resides in Florida and serves as a lean consultant at Rapid Lean Coach. Steve can be reached for help at RapidLeanCoach@Gmail.com.