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Bob Emiliani

"Our leadership training will be the best you've ever had - insightful, surprisingly simple, practical, and highly effective."

M.L. "Bob" Emiliani
Bob is President of The Center for Lean Business Management, LLC. He is a leading authority on Lean management, who since 1995 has focused his efforts on de-mystifying the "black art" of Lean leadership.

In addition to Lean leadership training, Bob is a sought-after speaker at corporate meetings and senior management retreats.

Bob's qualifications include 20 years of experience in aerospace, consumer products, and service industries. He has had front-line responsibility for implementing Lean principles and practices in three distinct settings:

Manufacturing shop floor

Supply networks

Higher education

Bob has also authored or co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications related to Lean management, including these ground-breaking papers:

"Standardized Work for Executive Leadership"

"Using Value Stream Maps to Improve Leadership"

"Linking Leaders' Beliefs to their Behaviors and Competencies"

"Lean Behaviors"

"Continuous Personal Improvement"

These papers describe practical and innovative approaches to identifying leadership problems and improving leadership capabilities. Four of his papers have won awards for excellence.

Bob coined the terms lean behaviors and behavioral waste in his breakthrough paper titled "Lean Behaviors," published in 1998. This paper was the first detailed description of how the "respect for people" principle functions in enabling continuous improvement, and how behavioral waste severely undercuts efforts to achieve a Lean transformation.

Bob is the principal author of Better Thinking, Better Results, a detailed case study and analysis of The Wiremold Company's Lean transformation over a 10 year period (1991-2001). The book won a Shingo Prize in 2003 as the first book to describe the enterprise-wide Lean transformation of a real company and where both principles of Lean management - "Continuous Improvement" and "Respect for People" - were applied.

He is also the author of the books:

REAL LEAN: Understanding the Lean Management System

REAL LEAN: Critical Issues and Opportunities in Lean Management

REAL LEAN: The Keys to Sustaining Lean Management

Practical Lean Leadership: A Strategic Leadership Guide for Executives

Bob is also a faculty member in the School of Engineering and Technology at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Conn. His teaching responsibilities include courses on Lean leadership and managing Lean supply networks. He earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Miami, M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Rhode Island, and Ph.D. in engineering from Brown University.

Lean Behaviors® and Behavioral Waste® are registered service marks of The CLBM, LLC.

David Stec
David Stec is an expert on Lean operations management, and internationally recognized for his research in supply chain management.

David's professional career includes over 15 years experience in the aerospace industry. David has worked for Boeing, the Wyman-Gordon Company, and Pratt & Whitney. He has engineering experience in design and manufacturing, and has also held management positions in operations and supply management.

David was trained in Lean business practices by Pratt & Whitney's Office of Continuous Improvement and the sensei from Shingijutsu Company, Ltd. Lean implementation projects included work cell design and scheduling, performance measurement, and supply management.

He is also an adjunct professor in the School of Technology at Central Connecticut State University where he teaches courses in operations management, Lean management (with focus on manufacturing-related topics), and distribution & logistics.

David is co-author of an important new book, Better Thinking, Better Results (January 2003), about The Wiremold Company's Lean transformation - a 2003 Shingo Prize winning publication. His work on supply chain management has been cited in numerous publications including: TED Magazine, Purchasing Magazine, Line56 Magazine, CIO Magazine, and Manufacturing News.

David is an expert facilitator of executive Lean training workshops as well as shop and office kaizen. He is also skilled in Lean supply chain management and policy deployment (Hoshin Kanri). If you are interested in in services, please contact him directly at:

E-mail: click here, Phone: 860.916.7530

David received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and graduated from the Leaders for Manufacturing program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.