We are expert Lean recruiters and Six Sigma Recruiters. For almost 20 years, The Avery Point Group has been a leading, Atlanta based, North American Lean and Six Sigma recruiting firm assisting companies like yours in identifying, assessing, and recruiting mid-level management to senior executive Lean and Six Sigma transformation leadership talent. As Executive Search Catalysts for Change™, we focus on Lean and Six Sigma roles related to Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement (CI), Operational Excellence (OpEx), Business Process Reengineering, Process Excellence, Balanced Scorecard, Just-in-Time (JIT) Manufacturing, and Agile Project Management.
Our firm’s partners, having held senior director, VP, and Lean and Six Sigma positions in Fortune 500 companies, bring over half a century of combined experience in business transformation and global operations leadership to the executive search and recruitment process for Lean and Six Sigma leadership talent. Trained as Six Sigma Master Black Belts and in Lean methodologies by industry-leading global companies, our partners apply their executive experience to help clients find and assess high-caliber Lean and Six Sigma talent. We are true Lean and Six Sigma industry experts.
As top Six Sigma recruiters and Lean recruiters, we believe in the potential of integrating Industry 4.0 and Business Intelligence (BI) with Lean and Six Sigma initiatives to help drive an organization’s performance far beyond their respective stand-alone use. Moreover, leveraging and combining Industry 4.0 tools with Business Intelligence (BI) can enable both Lean and Six Sigma to finally realize their true full potential. As a result, your organization has the potential to move beyond the challenges with the returns gained from your previous continuous improvement and Operational Excellence (OpEx) efforts. We understand the power of this synergy and actively seek transformative leaders who have the added skills to unlock this potential for your organization.
Shaped by their global executive leadership experience, our partners have successfully directed operations and spearheaded Lean and Six Sigma transformative initiatives across diverse regions, including Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia, and North America. This breadth of executive experience has equipped our firm’s partners with a deep understanding of what it takes to gain a competitive advantage in today’s complex global economy. This influences our partners’ robust approach to identifying, assessing, and recruiting Lean and Six Sigma talent that can give your organization a competitive advantage as a world-class leader.
As a result of our contributions and meaningful industry impact as top Six Sigma recruiters and Lean recruities, our firm has been featured in 8 books and acknowledged in more than 50 industry-leading trade journals and magazine articles. Our expertise as an industry thought leader has positioned us to be your trusted source for industry and Lean and Six Sigma leadership talent insights. This is critical when it comes to filling your organization’s key roles in Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement (CI), and Operational Excellence (OpEx).
As industry-leading Six Sigma recruiters and Lean recruiters, over 100 industry-leading clients across 18 diverse industry sectors have trusted us for nearly two decades to serve their executive search needs in Lean and Six Sigma. Our firm is committed to helping organizations like yours recruit the right transformation leadership talent to meet your world-class performance objectives. Leveraging our partners’ global experience and expertise, we seek to unlock the full potential of Lean and Six Sigma within your organization, fostering an environment of efficiency, quality, continuous improvement, and operational excellence (OpEx). Your Lean and Six Sigma Transformation Success Starts Here™.
According to manufacturing and supply chain industry surveys conducted over the past 15 years, Lean Manufacturing adoption jumped from 37% within the organizations surveyed to almost 66%. However, executives labeling their operations as “world-class” only grew from 2% to 15% during that same period.
Where does your business stand?
We focus on Six Sigma and Lean transformation talent with the right blend of continuous improvement skills, functional technical experience, and the unique ability to inspire and motivate employees to drive meaningful and impactful change within your organization.
According to a recent manufacturing and supply chain industry survey, world-class performing U.S. plants were almost twice as likely to be leveraging the tools of Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Kaizen, and Daily Team Meetings, along with being 35% more likely to be leveraging both Hoshin Kanri and PDCA Problem Solving versus lesser performing plants.
Where does your business stand?
Is your organization facing similar Six Sigma and Lean leadership and transformation challenges? Our expert focus on Six Sigma and Lean recruitment and executive search services can help.
As expert Six Sigma recruiters and Lean recruiters, we recognize the post-COVID resurgence of U.S.-based manufacturing has made it even more evident that top-tier Six Sigma and Lean leadership talent is crucial for any organization’s success. Historical findings from a major manufacturing and supply chain industry survey firm reveal that Lean Manufacturing adoption jumped from 37% within the organizations surveyed to almost 66% within U.S. manufacturing plants over the past 15 years. However, executives labeling their operations as “world-class” only grew from 2% to 15% during that same survey period.
Behind all the survey trend data is the fact that Lean Six Sigma still stands out within organizations that consider themselves to be world-class performers. For example, world-class performing U.S. plants were still almost twice as likely to be leveraging the tools of Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Kaizen, and Daily Team Meetings, along with being 35% more likely to be leveraging both Hoshin Kanri and PDCA Problem Solving versus lesser performing plants.
These studies’ overall findings corroborate that most operations could dramatically improve their performance by continuing to invest in and leverage the right Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing deployment leadership talent. As industry-leading Lean recruiters and Six Sigma recruiters, we believe that one of the most important factors in a plant’s progress toward and sustainment of world-class performance is an ongoing investment and leverage of a fully implemented and practical continuous improvement operating system.
World-class status is a constantly moving target defined by both a company’s customers and its competitors. Hence, it is even more essential in this highly competitive post-pandemic global economy that U.S. manufacturers reassert their commitment and investment in continuous improvement and operational excellence (OpEx).
This is where The Avery Point Group can help add value in your search for the right Six Sigma and Lean transformation leadership talent.
As Executive Search Catalysts for Change™, our expert focus on Six Sigma and Lean recruitment and headhunting is designed to help your organization overcome these transformation challenges. We specialize in finding Six Sigma and Lean transformation leaders who possess the necessary skills, knowledge, and experience in areas like Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement (CI), and Operational Excellence (OpEx).
With our deep hand-on executive industry experience with both Lean and Six Sigma, we focus on transformation talent that has the right blend of Lean and Six Sigma skills, functional technical capabilities, and the unique ability to inspire and motivate employees to drive meaningful and impactful change within your organization. We focus on Six Sigma and Lean transformation talent that understands one of the most important factors in a business’s progress toward world-class performance is an ongoing investment and leverage of a fully implemented and practical continuous improvement operating system.
As expert Six Sigma recruiters and Lean recruiters, our executive search services are focused on supporting private equity firms and their portfolio companies in their search for Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement (CI), and Operational Excellence (OpEx) transformation leadership talent. We recruit Six Sigma and Lean transformation leaders with unique capabilities to streamline processes, reduce waste, and enhance operational efficiencies. Their technical know-how is vital for the rapid identification and execution of improvements, leading to reduced operational costs and increased ROI. This talent is equally skilled at managing PE boards and investors’ high expectations and demands, leveraging Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement (CI), and Operational Excellence (OpEx) into actionable strategies that maximize value. By employing these methodologies, they empower private equity portfolio companies to optimize performance, accelerate growth, and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in the global marketplace.
We have a 20-year track record as Six Sigma and Lean industry experts and thought leaders. We deliver Six Sigma and Lean transformation leadership talent that knows how to create value and transform private equity portfolio companies into high-performing organizations.
As top Six Sigma recruiters and Lean Recruiters, our headhunting services are focused on filling Six and Lean roles with transformation leaders who take a holistic and practical approach to seamlessly integrating Six Sigma and Lean with Business Intelligence (BI) and Industry 4.0 technology strategies. These leaders effectively utilize the capabilities of advanced digital technologies such as big data, data visualization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in conjunction with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. These Six Sigma and Lean transformation leaders also excel at leveraging Business Intelligence and data science technology and tools like Tableau and Power BI, to extract actionable data-driven insights, streamline processes, and drive Operational Excellence (OpEx) and Lean Manufacturing implementation efforts.
We are focused on finding Six Sigma and Lean transformation leaders that know to integrate Lean, Sigma, Business Intelligence (BI), and Industry 4.0, using their proven leadership skills to help your organization close the performance gap between its current state process capabilities and future state world-class performance.
As top Lean recruiters and Six Sigma recruiters, our staffing services are focused on filling continuous Improvement (CI), operation excellence (OpEx), and Lean manufacturing roles with transformation leadership candidates that know how vital their roles are to establishing a culture of continuous improvement. The right leaders understand the critical importance of setting a clear vision for their teams, keeping them laser-focused on facilitating world-class performance in safety, quality, cost, and delivery (SQDC). These transformation leaders also understand that to be genuinely effective, operational excellence (OpEx) and Lean manufacturing initiatives must be fully embedded into the company’s operating culture so employees can collaborate to generate sustainable results.
We are focused on finding Six Sigma and Lean transformation leaders that understand the principles of employee engagement, talent development, collaboration, gemba walks, leadership standard work, lean daily management, and leadership by example is critical to achieving and sustaining world-class performance.
True Transformation Thought Leaders & Industry Experts
As a result of our contributions and meaningful industry impact, we have been featured in 8 books and acknowledged in more than 50 industry-leading trade journals and magazine articles. Our expertise as an industry thought leader has positioned us to be your trusted source for industry and transformation leadership talent.
Over Half a Century of Combined Business Transformation Executive Industry Leadership Experince
Timothy Noble is the president & managing partner of The Avery Point Group. Mr. Noble has over 30 years of executive leadership experience in business transformation, manufacturing operations, supply chain management, distribution, and executive search. Throughout his career he has been consistently promoted and has held senior level executive band roles in major Fortune 500 companies like General Electric (GE) and The Stanley Works (SWK – now known as Stanley Black and Decker). As a GE trained Master Black Belt and Shingijutsu trained Lean executive, Mr. Noble has extensive transformation experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, and digital transformation globally.
Prior to starting the Avery Point Group in 2004, Noble was the Global Operations Executive for Stanley-Bostitch, the second-largest division of The Stanley Works . In that role, he had full operational leadership responsibility for 8 plants and over 1,900 employees with operations throughout North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia, supporting revenue of just under $1.0 Billion.
Yvonne Hite is a partner and board advisor at The Avery Point Group. Ms. Hite has over 30 years of executive-level leadership experience in manufacturing, financial services, Lean Six Sigma, and executive search. Throughout her career, she has been consistently promoted and has held senior-level executive roles in major Fortune 500 companies like General Electric (GE), Bank of America (BAC) and The Stanley Works (SWK – now known as Stanley Black and Decker). As an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Bank of America Certified Master Black Belt, and Shingijutsu trained Lean executive, Ms. Hite has extensive experience leading Lean, Six Sigma, and digital transformation initiatives on a global scale. Ms. Hite was also one of GE Lighting’s first female Executive Band plant managers in its over one-hundred-year history.
Before her career move into executive search, Ms. Hite was a Senior Vice President with Bank of America, where she led the Trust Services Operation for the Southeast with responsibility for over 8,300 client accounts and over $1.3B in assets under management (AUM).