Shingo Directory
This directory includes Shingo staff and associated individuals including Examiners, Workshop Facilitators, and Affiliate Contacts.
Elvis Abad Miranda
Consorcio Minero Horizonte
Ricardo Alatorre
CI Manager | CELESTICA
James F. Albaugh
Executive Vice President | Boeing
Marianela Alfaro
Business Excellence Manager | Johnson & Johnson MedTech
Adolfo Amador González
Operational Excellence Manager | ICU Medical Costa Rica LTD.
J. Eduardo Amezcua
Business Consultant | TMAC
Daniel Amezquita
Global VP of Operational Excellence | Generac Power Systems
Katie Anderson
Leadership Coach and Consultant | Katie Anderson Consulting
Larry Anderson
Certified Facilitator | GBMP Consulting Group
Lilly Anspach
Chief Executive Officer | The Yuri Group
Stan A. Askren
Former CEO | HNI Corporation
Luc Baetens
Managing Partner | Möbius Business Redesign
Mark Baker
Chief Operations Officer | One Workplace
Shaun Barker
Assistant Executive Director | Shingo Institute
Kim Barnas
Chief Executive Officer | Catalysis Inc.
Jason Barnes
Sysco Corporation
Peter Barnett
Executive Education Director | Shingo Institute
Jorge Barron
EVP | ICG
Terry Bates
N/A | Retired
J.T. Battenberg III
Chairman & CEO | Delphi Corporation
Warren Batts
Chairman NAM | Tupperware Corporation
Amayas Benkaroun
IPSEN Pharma
Bryan Bergsma
Senior Research Scientist | Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Fabrice Bernhard
Chief Technology Officer | Theodo
Irek Bilinski
Chief Executive Officer | 4Results
Norm Bodek
President | Productivity, Inc.
Glenn Bodinson
Founder and Principal | BaldrigeCoach, Inc.
Guy Briggs
Vice President | General Motors
Tolan Brown
EVP, Supply Chain & Manufacturing | O.C. Tanner Company
Lindi Brown
Utah State University
Gifford Brown
Plant Manager | Ford Motor Company
Max Brown
Managing Partner | Institute for Enterprise Excellence
Vernon M. Buehler
Professor Emeritus | Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
Suzy Burdge
Principal Consultant | Op Ex Innovators, LLC
Philippe Burq
Senior Expert | McKinsey & Company
Jerry Bussell
President | Bussell Lean Associates LLC
Drew Butler
Operational Excellence | IgniteXcellence
Chris Butterworth
Shingo Faculty Fellow | CB Enterprise Excellence
Art Byrne
Operating Partner | J.W. Childs Associates
RC Caldwell
Chief Executive Officer | Caldwell & Associates
Richard Campbell
The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
Edgar Cardenas
Global Operations VP | ALFRA Lean Advisors
Douglas Carlberg
President | Carlberg Consulting Group, LLC
Jack ChenJX
Global Senior Lean Six Sigma Manager | Jabil LSS Global
Judy Cloo
Founder & Managing Director | IgniteXcellence
Ryan Colao
Senior Operations Manager | Gallo
Rolando Colindres-Bran
Business Advisor | TMAC
Ken Collins
EVP and Chief Transformation Officer | Zions Bancorporation
Randy Cook
Consultant | Self-employed
Michelle Cooper
Sr Innovation & Automation Mgr | WestRock
Garry Corbet
CEO Europe | S A Partners LLP
Virginia Cosgriff
Operational Excellence Director | Mcgough Construction
Timothy Costello
Chairman & CEO | Builder Homesite, Inc.
Joseph Coster
President | Iron Crafters Security Products, Inc.
Warren Cotter
Manager Deployment Global | Odyssey Alliance
Stephen R Covey
Co-Founder | Franklin Covey
Turner Crane
Technical Black Belt | E & J Gallo Winery
Robert Crotty
AVP Capital Productivity and Strategy | HCA Healthcare
H. Lawrence Culp
Chief Executive Officer | General Electric
Jean Cunningham
Founder and President | Jean Cunningham Consulting
Bryan Cutliff
Partner | S A Partners LLP
Michael DaPrile
Executive Vice President | SW Manufacturing, Inc.
Stephen Dargan
Senior Leader and Onboarding Coach | BHP Billiton Group Operations
Conor Dawson
Senior Consultant, Head of Ireland | S A Partners LLP
Douglas Dawson
Founder, Managing Director | Leg Up Solutions LLC
Joseph Day
Chief Executive Officer | Freudenberg-NOK
Earnest Deavenport Jr.
Former Chairman & CEO | Eastman Chemical
Brian Decker
Sr. Process Engineer | Moog Medical
Joanne Deys
Executive VP, Strategic Partnering/President | Ozgene Pty Ltd
Drew Dillon
Founder | Andrew Dillon and Associates
Mike Dixon
Shingo Student Center Director | Shingo Institute
George Donaldson
Leadership and Enterprise Excellence Coach | Manufacturers Network
Curt Douma
Consultant | Leg Up Solutions LLC
Roger Echeverria
Partner, Excellence Consulting | PXS School of Excellence
Andy Eichfeld
Co-Founder | Eichfeld & Crowe
Bob Elliott
CI Manager | GBMP Consulting Group
Arnoldo Esparza
Consultant | Opex Academy
Arnoldo Esparza
Opex Academy
Frank Ewasyshyn
EVP | Chrysler, LLC
Steven Fannon
Principle Practitioner | The Manufacturing Institute
Alessandra Fantoni
Vice President of Global Supply Chain | O.C. Tanner Company
Alfonso Felix
Director General | Liceo de Leon
Jason Feng
Global Lean and Six Sigma Manager | Abbott Diagnostics
Gloria Fernández
IMS & Opex Leader | INNODESC
Evelyn Ferrer
VP Operations Development | Eos Energy Enterprises
Orest Fiume
Former VP of Finance and Administration | The Wiremold Company
Dan Fleming
President | GBMP Consulting Group
Luis Flores
Director of Operational Excellence | Legrand
Raymond Floyd
SVP | Suncor Energy
Glasson Fonseca
Executive Manager, Transformation Office | Consorcio Minero Horizonte
William Fookes
McKinsey & Company
Louise Francesconi
President | RTX
Jeff Fuchs
President | Neovista Consulting, LLC
Iván Gabino
Management Consultant | Tapia Brothers Co.
Chris Gaby
Regional Lead - Global OPEX Team | Flowserve
Bernard Gagnon
President | Campus Lean
Gwendolyn Galsworth
President | Visual Thinking Inc.
Sandrine Garcia
Site Director | Ipsen Signes
Lacey Garner
Global Data Modeling and Bulk Extract Leader | Circana
Alisha Garrett
Utah Transit Authority
Jim Garrick
Partner | Maxability LLC
Edwin Garro Chavarría
Chairman and CEO | PXS School of Excellence
Yvonn Gaßner
Business Development Manager | Alphadi Deutschland
Ana Gati
Founder | Gati Consultoria
Travis Gerritsen
Program Manager, Engineering Manager | Bae Systems
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Founder | Goldratt Institute
Abel Gomez
Executive Director | Opex Academy
Javier Gonzalez
Business Partner | PXS School of Excellence
Oscar Gonzalez
Senior Consultant | KTD Consulting Group
Kirstin Graham
Principal Assessor | BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA)
Benjamin Griffin
Retired Commanding General, Material Command | US Army
Andrew Guarriello
Former Vice President & CEO | AT&T Microelectronics Power Systems
Richard Guba
Sr. Consultant | S A Partners LLP
Kayhan Guceli
General Manager | Mediterranean Conservation Society
Bruce Hamilton
Senior Advisor | GBMP Consulting Group
Lawrence Hamilton
Director of Continuous Improvement | East West Manufacturing
Abdelhakeem Hammad
CEO | Xi Horizons Consulting
Thomas G. Hartman
Executive Coach | Catalysis Inc.
Doğan Hasan
Chief Executive Officer | UnoPro Consulting
Brian Hatter
Senior Consultant | S A Partners LLP
Chris Hayes
Chief Executive Officer | Impact Performance Solutions
Tony Hayes
Global Operations Director | ITW
Joe Healy
Senior Director, Operational Excellence | Johnson And Johnson
Tyson Heaton
Executive Director of Lean Tech/AI and Senior Coach | Lean Enterprise Institute
Patricia Heatwole
Operational Excellence Manager | Senior Metal Bellows
William Heimbuch
Manufacturing Process Engineer II | ASSA ABLOY Curries
Jack Helmboldt
Retired President | DENSO International America, Inc.
Noel Hennessey
Managing Director | Practical Lean Solutions
Eilish Henry
Director | SISU Consulting Group
Juan V. Hernandez
Continuous Improvement Manager | Hollister Incorporated
Crystal Heroux
Social Media Coordinator | Shingo Institute
Brendan Hindle
Chief Operating Officer | Aspen Pumps Group
Peter Hines
Co-Founder | Lean Enterprise Research Centre
Nathan Holt
Founder | Ultimate Performance
Marshall Hooper
Vice President of People & Culture | Bullfrog Spas
Michael Hoseus
Partner | ALFRA Lean Advisors
Lindy Hues
Multimedia Designer | Shingo Institute
David Humble
Founder and Chief Executive Office | National Vanguard Consortium
Rob Hunt
Director of Lean Practices USA | Lean Focus
Masaaki Imai
Chairman | Kaizen Institute of Japan
Juan Carlos Ituarte
Director | Advitria
Ted Iverson
Managing Director | ICG
Dean Jablonsky
VP Global Enterprise Excellence | Boston Scientific - St. Paul, MN
Sylvie Jacques
Director, Lean Enterprise Americas | Corporation STERIS Canada - Quebec
Martin Jalomo Garcia
Operations Director | Tidi Products Llc
Brad Jeavons
Enterprise Excellence Group
Cheryl Jekiel
Lean Leadership Center
Pedro Jimenez
Operational Excellence and Quality Manager | Spirax Sarco, Inc.
Ken Jones
Principle Practitioner | The Manufacturing Institute
Daniel Jones
Author and Senior Advisor | Lean Enterprise Institute
Morgan Jones
Chief Transformation Officer | Think X Ltd.
Michael Joyce
Senior VP, Operations and Program Management | Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Seán Kelly
Global Program Manager | Abbott Core Diagnostics
James Keyes
Former CEO | Johnson Controls Inc.
John Kim
Vice President, Global Lean and OpEx | Bio-Rad Laboratories
George Koenigsaecker
President | Lean Investments, LLC
Frank Koentgen
Chairman & CEO | Ozgene Pty Ltd
Jasmin Kollar
Abbott Diagnostics
Ken Kreafle
Lean Senior Advisor | University of Kentucky Lean Systems Program
Michael Krebs
Director, CI | Quest Diagnostics
Eric Lail
Chief Business Officer | Design Foundry
Michael Lamach
Chaiman & CEO | Ingersoll Rand
Kevan Latty
Vedas Advisory
Gregory Laufer
Chief Operations Officer | Hypercomp Engineering Inc.
Peter Lawson
Former VP Manufacturing | Ford Motor Company
Tara Lee
Senior Consultant | IgniteXcellence
Gina Liebe
Business Development Manager Dach | S A Partners LLP
Jeff Liker
Author and Professor | Liker Lean Advisors
David J. Logozzo
President, LE Partners | Lean Enterprise Institute
Santiago Londono
Sr Director VES Lean | Hach
Dan Long
Principal Process Improvement Engineer | Boston Scientific Corporation
Robert Lopez
Operational Excellence/Process Improvement Leader | Medline Industries Inc.
Dale Lucht
Master Coach (retired) and Author | Discover Financial Services (retired)
Michelle Lue-Reid
Chief Transformation Officer | Stasis Group
Cara Lustgarten
Editor | Shingo Institute
Brent Lyon
Retired | Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Alejandro Maggi
Director Enterprise Quality | Mckesson
Laszlo Magyar
VP, Global Operational Excellence | Entegris, Inc.
Norbert Majerus
Norbert Majerus Consulting LLC
Melinda Manente
GBMP Consulting Group
Heidi Marquardt
ASSA ABLOY Curries
Mike Martyn
President | SISU Consulting Group
Michele Massimino
Director, Business Transformation | Reynolds Consumer Products
Oscar Mayet
Global Director, Continuous Improvement/Lean & Industrial Engineering | Gildan - Hanes Brand Inc (HBI)
Michael McKay
Director | Impax Solutions Group
Mark McKenzie
Director of Daily Management Systems & Coaching | SISU Consulting Group
Jason McKinney
Continuous Improvement Manager | GBMP Consulting Group
Judith McMullan
Abbott Diabetes Care
Kevin McNamara
Chairman | Tidi Products LLC
Phil Meekins
ASSA ABLOY Curries
Jorge Francisco Mejía Coba
Managing Director | CEC Corporation
Peter Melnik
CI Manager | GBMP Consulting Group
Chris Merriman
Associate Director of Practitioner Services | Manufacturers Network
Jack Michaels
Chairman, President & CEO | Snap-On Inc.
Jim Mikulski
Partner | S A Partners LLP
Jessica Milarski
Affiliate & Events Coordinator | Shingo Institute
Robert Miller
Founder | Arches Leadership LLC
Carlos Monjaras
Management Consultant | Advitria
Sheila Montney
CEO & Managing Partner | Win Together, LLC
Steve Moore
Former General Manager | Barnes Group Inc.
Daniel Moreno
Certified Facilitator | EESOLPRA Excellence Thinking
Eamonn Murphy
Professor Emeritus | Irish Centre for Business Excellence
Marco Nascimento
Partner | Gati Consultoria
R. David Nelson
Chairman | Quality Analytics Inc.
Torbjørn Netland
Chair of Production and Operations Management | ETH Zürich
Mauro Neves de Moraes
CEO and Managing Director | Dyno Nobel Limited
Stephen Newlon
Sr. Manager, Continuous Improvement | Xylem Inc.
Steve Nicoll
Business Excellence Coach | The Lean Orange Ltd
Kieran Noonan
Global Operations and Global Operational Excellence | Abbott
Nancy Nouaimeh
Founder and Managing Director | XcelliUm Management Consultancy Ltd
William Nusbaum
N/A | Retired
Michael O’Connor
Chief Scientist I | Bae Systems
Rodney O’Neal
President & COO | Delphi Corporation
Paul O’Neill
Former Chairman & CEO | Alcoa Inc.
Brittney Ogden
Assessment Coordinator | Shingo Institute
Hajime Ohba
Vice President & General Manager | Toyota Motor Manufacturing, N.A.
Jose Luis Ordorica Hodgers
Senior Consultant Lean Management / Shopfloor Improvement Manager | AUMOVIO Germany GmbH
Teodoro Ortiz
Head of Regional Opex Academy Americas | Mahle Corporation
Jo Ann Pabst
Research Director | Shingo Institute
Shana Padgett
Chief Executive Officer | Value Capture LLC
James Padilla
Former CEO | Ford Motor Company
Omar Paredes Baltazar
Operational Excellence | Lensys Training Center
Rusty Patterson
Chairman and CEO | Angel Fire Business Concepts
Dennis K. Pawley
President & CEO | Pawley Enterprises
Antonio Perez
WCM director | ALFRA Lean Advisors
Gary Peterson
Principal | Peterson Consulting Group
Tim Pettry
Senior Advisor, Continuous Improvement | Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Brett Pichla
Founder & Managing Director | CI Strategies, Inc
Dimitri Pitikaris
General Manager | Alphadi Deutschland
Alfred Plagge
Principal Consultant | Blom Consultancy
Gerhard Plenert
Certified Facilitator | HKPO
Matt Pollard
VP, Clinical Programs | INTEGRIS Health
Marcial Portillo
Global Supply Chain Operational Excellence Framework and Lean CI Manager | Spirax Sarco, Inc.
Sage Price
Salesforce Support | Shingo Institute
Mary Price
Events and Marketing Director | Shingo Institute
Sergio Prieto
Executive Director | BCV Lean Consulting
Eleazar Puente-Rivera
Professor of Industrial Engineering | ITESM Campus Leon
Ron Pujalte
CI Manager | GBMP Consulting Group
Adriana Quesada
Sustainability Program Manager | Moog Medical Devices Group
John Quirke
Partner | S A Partners LLP
Didier Rabino
VP Operations | Value Capture LLC
Jennifer Ralston
Chief Executive Officer | HKPO
Francisco Ramirez
Executive Director | Lensys Training Center
Clifford Ransom II
President | Ransom Research, Inc.
Indrajit Ray
Managing Director and Principal Consultant | Vedas Advisory
Jacob Raymer
Shingo Faculty Fellow | SISU Consulting Group
Rachel Regan
Executive Director-Events | Lean Enterprise Institute
John Remsey
Sr. Technical Specialist | IMEC
Ramon Riezco
Consultant | Opex Academy
Ross Robson
President | DnR Lean LLC
Guillermo Rojas
Opex Director | Jabil Baja Plant 2, Tijuana Mexico
Ricardo Ruiz
Operations Director | Opex Academy
Lizett Ruiz Herrera
Sr Manager PPI Business System | Thermo Fisher Scientific Tijuana
Ronald Runkle
Former VP, Enterprise Technologies | Delphi Corporation
Deanna Russell
Structured Problem Solving Coach | Pendaran, Inc.
José Carlos De Sá
School of Engineering (ISEP), Polytechnic of Porto
Amy Sadler
Client & Affiliate Relations Director | Shingo Institute
Mike Santarelli
Quality & Lean Manager | Munters
Kate Sargent
Webmaster | Shingo Institute
Steve Savage
Chief Operations Officer | Affordable Interior Systems (AIS)
Russell Scaffede
Owner | Lean Manufacturing Systems Group
Brad Schmidt
Founder & President | Makoto Investments, Ltd.
John Schmitzer
Operational Excellence Manager | Smurfit Westrock
Carlos Scholz
Ceo | Catalysis Inc.
Richard Schonberger
Independent Researcher and Author | Schonberger & Associates, Inc.
Colin Scott
President & Partner | S A Partners LLP
Ken Segel
Chief Relationship Officer | Value Capture LLC
Andriy Sergyeyev
Director | BPI Group
Armando Raul Serrano Felix
Lean Sensei Six Sigma Master Black Belt Advisor | Armando Serrano LLC
Anand Sharma
President | TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
Richard Sheridan
CEO, Co-Founder, and Chief Storyteller | Menlo Innovations
Ritsuo Shingo
President | Institute of Management Improvement
John Shook
President & CEO | Lean Enterprise Institute
Scott Shurtliff
Circana
David Siebert
Vice President | O.C. Tanner Company
Adrian Siller Garza
Chief Executive Officer | SISAMEX
Fabiana Silva Trevizani Horta
Vale
Harold M. Simons
Retired Executive Vice President of Manufacturing | O.C. Tanner Company
Michael Simons
Bullfrog Spas
Rajinder Singh
Country Manager & Chief Mentor | EFESO Consulting
Guillem Sivecas
Senior Expert | McKinsey & Company
Art Smalley
President | Art of Lean, Inc.
Thom Smith
Continuous Improvement Manager | Reynolds Consumer Products
Ken Snyder
Executive Director | Shingo Institute
James Solberg
Former Executive Director, Manufacturing | Ford Motor Company
Matthew Spahn
Managing Director | The TCW Group, Inc
Terry Spalding
Lean Facilitator & CI Champion | Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)
Samantha Squires
Bhp
Anne Stevens
Chairman and Principal | SA IT Services
Skip Steward
VP and Chief Improvement Officer | Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
Katarzyna Stołkowska
Consultant | 4Results
Ted Stutz
VP of Quality & Operations | Mesa Energy Systems
Peter Sussex
Operational Excellence Global Shingo Leader | Ipsen Biopharm, Wrexham
Tim Suydam
Disaster Action Team Specialist (Volunteer) | American Red Cross Connecticut Chapter
Emily Swaney
OhioHealth
Tasma Taylor
Shining Mba Coordinator | Shingo Institute
Steven Taylor
Tidi Products LLC
Rebecca Teeters
SVP, Chemical Operations and Fluoromaterial Stewardship | 3M
Alex Teoh
Managing Director | Keysense Consulting
Taylor Thompson
Video Editor | Shingo Institute
Bruce Thompson
Principal | SLT
Carl G. Thor
President | JarrettThor International
Paul Todd
Group Manager, Operational Excellence | Georgia Tech - Enterprise Innovation Institute
John Toussaint
Chairman | Catalysis Inc.
Don Tracy
DENSO International America, Inc.
Hung Tran
SR SCRIPPS MGMT SYS FACILITATOR | Scripps Health
Steffen Trede
Director, Business Excellence | Alphadi Deutschland
Nathan Trone
Director of Manufacturing | Capstone Nutrition
Ravi Uppal
Sr. Manager, AIML Process Engineering | Apple Inc.
Nickolas Vande Steeg
Former President and COO | Parker Hannifin Corporation
Armando Vazquez
Senior Director of Manufacturing Operations | Medline Industries Inc.
David Vidal Cartes
Senior Operational Excellence Engineer | Codelco
Gerard Vittecoq
Retired Group President | Caterpillar Inc.
Arne Vogt
Chief Operations Officer | Vitesse Systems
Alejandro von Rossum, Sr.
CEO - Chemical Division | Cydsa Corporativo S.A. de C.V.
Chase Wachendorf
Discount Tire
Carlos Waldo
Advanced Manufacturing Director | Mabe MPT Electrónica
Tanya Walker
Senior Project Management | UVA
Michael J. Ward
President | Autoliv
Peter Ward
Senior Associate Dean, Fisher College of Business | The Ohio State University
Pat Wardwell
retired | GBMP Consulting Group
Paul Waterman
Vice President Manufacturing | FLEXcon
Donald J. Wetekam
Deputy Chief of Staff/Logistics | US Air Force
Patrick Wetter
Manager, CI | Medline Industries Inc.
Clay Wilker
Consulting Engineer, Continuous Improvement, Digital Transformation | Northrop Grumman
Jeremy Williams
General Manager - Services Quality | GE Vernova
John Wilson
Cardiology Business Optimization Manager | Boston Scientific Corporation
Brad Winn
Professor & MBA Director | Utah State University
Kenneth Wisinski
US Operations Director | S A Partners LLP
David Wohleen
Former Vice Chairman | Delphi Corporation
James Womack
Founder & President | Lean Enterprise Institute
Ken Wrobel
Operational Excellence and Quality Systems Consultant | Ken Wrobel - Lean Consulting
Piotr Wrzeszcz
Managing Partner | 4Results
Howard Wu
Business Process Excellence Lead | GAF Roofing Materials
Yuehan (Hannah) Xu
Abbott Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics (RMDx) Hangzhou, China
Zhenhua (Jack) Yang
Chief Consultant | Young Consulting Group (YCG)
Fulian Ye
Lean Manager | Rhi Magnesita
Paulo Yida
Executive Director | ARGOS Consultoria
Richard Young
Chief Executive Officer APAC | S A Partners LLP
Helen Zak
N/A | Retired
Keivan Zokaei
Chief Development Officer | S A Partners LLP
