Adam is the Founder of " ***** of ***** " and WizEgy Consulting and Training and actively partners with other consulting businesses globally to provided capacity / specialist assistance where needed. Starting some 20+ years ago before “Lean was called Lean” Adam specialized in improving business performance using Lean, Six Sigma, Strategic Change Management, Leadership and Growth to enable companies / Clients to radically or incrementally as well as strategically and tactically improve profitability and growth.
Adam has held Individual and Leadership positions in areas such as Production / Process Engineering, Logistics/Supply Chain, Design/Development, Marketing, HR etc in industries such as Industrial Manufacturing, Aerospace, Financial Services, Education, Chemical Production and Fabrication in both the Americas and EMEA.
Representative Experience
As the Leader of an independent consulting, training and coaching business, Adam has assisted Clients and Trainees to dramatically increase quality, productivity, capacity, space, profitability, reduce lead times, inventory and WIP with a key element of cultural adoption and change to ensure sustainability.
Adam, as an Adjunct Professor, developed and teaches their Master Certificate in Six Sigma for Financial Services. Also works with another “Ivy League” University and other Colleges to improve their processes. Material Extrusion / Fabrication plants have also benefited from Adam’s expertise driving improvements in yield, reducing set up times, designing capable processes, “plant shut down”, remediation and relocation of plant, redesigning facilities and improving the work place environment to improve profitability. He has worked in the Chemical industry with their “Advanced Manufacturing “ team to optimize yield and reduce process variation.
As a Director for Western Union and First Data (Financial Services) Adam Consulted, deployment Lean, Six Sigma, Leadership and Growth Programs, project identification/prioritization, training, mentoring & coaching teams to drive business improvements in areas such as:
- HR, Sales, Client boarding, Patents, Billing, Supplier efficiency, Business Intelligence, New Product Development, Loan Processing, Call Center Ops, Back Office Client Support, Transaction processing, Pricing and Client analysis, Recycling, In sourcing, Product Portfolio, Strategic Procurement Supply Chain, Retail Inventory.
- Examples of benefits include :
- Reduction of lead time from Loan enquiry to live from 42 days to 1 ***** minutes
- Reduction of time clients enrollment lead time from 22 to less than 10 days
- Improve supplier performance – increase quality from 4. 79 to 4. 87 Sigma
- Turned around a $40m revenue product from demise to thrive and growth
- Eliminated $1. 4bn “FED” errors
- Created price optimization methods to enable growth
- Designed and implemented a global Ideation and Innovation platform and database.



As a Corporate Lean Six Sigma Manager for AlliedSignal / Honeywell (Aerospace), Adam led the Tucson military/commercial aerospace plants lean and Six Sigma program. Adam co-Implemented Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) on all major design programs, implemented "5s"- visual control methods in the "power generation" product line (which is now across the site as a standard), implemented standardized measurement methods & processes to eliminate defects in Tucson and in Mexicalli, Mexico. and generated the following benefits:
- Drove groundbreaking Six Sigma/Lean projects in software/hardware design to avoid $ 1. ***** bn in penalties.
- Increased bottom line savings from $0. 26 to $ ***** . 86m, cost avoidance from $1. 82m to $4. 72m per year.
- Increased cash from $0. 1 to $5. 5m & created 19, 00 extra capacity hours per year.

As a Master Black Belt / Lean Master for Invensys (Industrial Manufacturing) Adam created Green Belt training material to train approx. ***** 0, 00 people. trained & mentored Black, Green Belts and Kaizen teams within and across divisions, trained & team led Kaizen events within and across divisions rapidly implementing change and creating empowered work ***** and generated the following benefits:
- Six Sigma Project savings on 2 projects approx $750k bottom line while increasing customer satisfaction.
- Implemented Kanbans (FAXbans) on raw material reducing inventory by 90%.
Adam also drove product or service innovations in roles as Manager – Product (Marketing), Chief Engineer, Manager - Production Control, Production ***** cation and Training
Adam earned a BSc Hons in Mechanical Engineering / Management from the Open University in the UK, Six Sigma Training from Six Sigma Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona.
A Highly trained and experienced Strategic Change Manager which encompasses: Strategic Deployment, Hoshin Kanri, Scorecards, Lean Enterprise, Six Sigma Methodologies, Leadership Development, Growth Programs, Stage Gate Product Development,

As part as Adam’s Strategic Change Management Training/Certification the following courses were instrumental in driving the right cultural changes to achieve business results: Change Leadership, Leading Through Communication, Leading People for Successful Projects, Systemic Consulting for Internal Professionals, Interpersonal Effectiveness For Consultants: Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence, Systemic Consulting, Commitment Through Conversations, Leading Through Communication

Adam has attended/certified in a number of professional development courses over the years to enable results by Leadership/Management skills or through process change:
Software:
- MS Office Pro Suite including Visio and Project
- Minitab – Statistical Analysis
- CAD, UNIX Administration For CAD

Management
- Management III
- Media Presentations, Anti-Money Laundering Awareness, Basic Principles for a Collaborative Workplace, Coaching: Bringing out the Best in Others , Establishing Performance Expectations , Connecting to Our Customers, Finance, Leaders Behavioral Interviewing, Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback, Legal , Making Effective Decisions , Management Fundamentals, Moving from Conflict to Collaboration , Personal Strategies for Navigating, Business Partnership Skills , The Art of Understanding, What Matters Most

Business / Process Change
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Six Sigma Master Black Belt
- Lean Master
- Soft Skills Bootcamp for Black Belts
- Presentation Skills (Scott Halford)

Additional Coursework and Professional Development to include:
- ISO 9000, QS 9000, AS 9000, PS 9000, ISO ***** (Lead auditor, auditor and QMS development)
- ESD training
- Mechanical and Production Engineering
- Machining, General Technology, Mechanical Engineering, General Engineering
- Failure Mode And Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Logistics, Systems Training
- M1 Introductory Pneumatics, D1 Pneumatic Circuit Design
- CNC Programming, Introductory CAD/Robotics
- Forklift Certification

He is a certified professional Consultant (Assosciation of Profssional Consultants), International Conference Speaker, an advisory board member for Denver Technology Inc, and frequent author of published articles.

Partial Client List
· Paloma Consulting / Celerant Consulting (Consulting and Training)
· Honeywell / AlliedSignal (Aerospace)
· WesternUnion (Financial Services)
· First Data (Financial Services)
· Notre Dame, Villanova, PCC, ACC, GCC (University / Education)
· Invensys, Spirax Sarco (Industrial Manufacturing)
· DSM – (Chemical)