Alan Spong PhD, MBA
Founder and Principal Consultant
How I can Help You
Understand | Transform | Grow
With over 20 years experience in business Leadership, engineering, Manufacturing and Lean methodology/Operational Excellence I have a wealth of experience to support you meeting your goals.
I offer businesses and individuals services including:
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1:1 Executive and Career Coaching
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Training courses 1:1 and group sessions (e.g. structured Problem Solving, facilitation and Leadership development)
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Accredited Lean Six Sigma Training: Tutor led and online Yellow Belt, Green Belt and Black Belt training and certification.
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Team and business transformation workshops in strategy and Operational excellence
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Business transformation projects - Structured projects to solve the most challenging business problems. Utilising the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) Framework and Agile/SCRUM methodologies.
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Support navigating Quality Assurance, Quality Management Systems (QMS), ISO9001 audits and quality system implementation, Advanced Production Quality Planning (APQP).
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During my Career I have saved businesses in excess of US$25million on numerous projects within areas such as manufacturing, Quality, New Product Introduction, R&D/Engineering, HR and people, supply chain, project management, finance and commercial.
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In addition to hard financial savings the cultural changes engendered within the businesses I have supported has been transformational to those I have worked with.
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20+ years experience in Leadership roles in business and academia, start-ups and large corporates.
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Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (Honeywell Corporate Programme).
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Executive Coach & Mentor.
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Chartered Chemist (CChem) and Chartered Quality Professional (CQP).
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Quality and Lean Six Sigma Guru.
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MBA (Warwick), PhD (Southampton).
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Business impact >US25 million saved from business improvement projects.
Education
2015-2017
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
MBA with Distinction
Dissertation project on the effect of leadership on innovative work behaviour
2001-2005
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
PhD in Chemistry
My doctoral thesis was on developing a new method to test large number of Lithium Battery Materials to maximise throughput of industrial testing (Lean R&D)
1998-2001
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
BSc (Hons) in Chemistry
Undergraduate project of maximising useful output of lithium battery materials.