Lean Leadership Development.
Operational Excellence.
Transformational Results.
Jamie V. Parker is the trusted Lean partner for mid-size manufacturers seeking to create a high-performance culture, continued improvement and transformational growth.
You’ve tried to help your
managers lead more effectively.
And you’ve tried to incorporate Lean thinking into your
organization or team. But something’s not working.
Sound Familiar?
People are resistant and prefer doing
things “the old way.”
“We’re too busy!” they exclaim. Lean feels like an extra “chore” rather than a new and better way of working.
Your KPIs like safety, quality, delivery and cost are not improving at the level you want, even though you’ve tried really hard to get results.
Changes just aren’t “sticking.” Maybe you even hired a consultant and got results from workflow changes, but that hasn’t translated to ongoing improvement initiated by your team.
What you’ve already tried…
hasn’t worked. Now what?
Get the ROI on your Lean initiatives and strategies. Now, It’s the time to help your Operations Managers integrate Lean seamlessly into your organization by creating organizational agility, a high-performance culture and deliver continuous improvements.
Leadership development and training to understand how to actually lead and bring out the best in others to achieve sustainable growth and results.
I Can Help.
I specialize in leadership development, Lean integration, and leadership mentoring.
I work with organizations that invested in Lean and are not getting the expected transformative results.
If Lean adoption has stalled or slow down, now is the time to protect your strategic investment and help your mangement team become Lean thinkers and transformational leaders.
I work with Operations Managers, Mid-level Managers, and Executives who are already practicing Lean, and need to integrate Lean leadership principles and Lean thinking into their daily practice.
My core belief is everyone deserves to feel valued at work, and you accomplish this while still achieving excellent KPI performance and without being “a softy.”
Schedule a call. We’ll speak for 30 minutes.
There’s no charge for this call and no high-pressure sales pitch.
This is simply a chance to talk about what you’re noticing in your organization, what’s working, what’s not, and how I may be able to help.
After our call, I’ll put together a plan based on your goals and budget, and we’ll fine tune it together.
What you’ll gain from
working with me
Make leaders more effective. No more “command and control” management style.
Inspire team members to practice improvement consistently and see more of the behaviors you want.
Less arguing, fewer power struggles, more respect and rapport between team members, and between teams and leaders.
Team members who geniunely enjoy coming to work, and tell their friends, “this is a great company. I’d highly recommend working here.”
Shift from understanding Lean to actually implementing.
Insights into how to integrate Lean during
unusually stressful and uncertain times, like the COVID-19 pandemic.
ROI from your Lean investment through Lean leadership training & integration in the everyday.
Start moving your leaders from status quo to inspiring, engaging, and effective Lean leadership
with 3 simple steps:
Schedule a Call
We’ll hop on the phone to discuss your vision, current situation and obstacles.
Review your customized plan
I’ll put together a draft plan and we’ll fine tune it together.
Develop Your Leaders Together
Using the right combination of in-person and/or virtual support, we’ll work the plan together to get the results you want.
I work with organizations both onsite and virtually.
Training
Engaging, effective and actionable Lean leadership training for your ops leaders.
INTEGRATION
Beyond the classroom to real application and integration into everyday leadership.
Consulting
Strategic development and implementation mapping, guidance and mentorship.
Hi, I’m Jamie
I am a Recovering Command-and-Control Manager.
I “grew up” in operations and understand the pressure that op executives and managers face. We’re expected to hit our numbers. Not down the road – but NOW. We’re expected to keep moving the goal line, so that it feels like our results are never “good enough.” And we’re expected to do it all with fewer people and older machines than we would like to have.
For almost a decade, I didn’t know how to meet those expectations while also leading with respect and care.
Practicing Lean is what sparked my leadership transformation.
But at first, I made the same mistakes most of us do – doubling down on the tools and systems without making real adjustments to how I and my team of 19 plant managers showed up as leaders.
Until I realized that our everyday leadership interactions were the biggest obstacles to building an improvement culture and making value creation “just the way we worked”.
We trained on Lean tools, but didn’t do Lean leadership training or development.
Now, I help operations management teams multiply the impact of their improvement efforts by transforming from managing compliance to inspiring commitment and action.
How can I help you?
You can have it all: strong KPI Performance, highly effective teams, engagement, continuous improvement, and respect for people.
You don’t have to pick and choose.
Let’s talk about how to get the everybody, everywhere, everyday results that you want to see!
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