Glen Tichbourne

LEAD Associate

Glen is a Lean systems, human capital and leadership facilitator, whose adept teaching, mentoring, problem solving and team-building skills have helped many global clients. Glen's 35+ years of experience have been acquired through various senior management positions in world-class manufacturing environments and corporate/adult skills development training facilitation and consulting industries, giving him a unique perspective in the application of lean tools and techniques. He is equally comfortable juggling process and behavioral challenges as he is in board rooms with senior levels of managers.

Glen's lean experience includes industries such as automotive, aerospace, military, steelmaking and casting foundries, food processing, high tech. machining, nuclear industry, woodworking, electronics and printing industries.

During Glen's career with Tenneco Monroe he was one of a 4 person team responsible for launching Lean throughout the North American facilities and ultimately developing the Lean systems from the ground up at one facility. Glen has successfully implemented:

• SMED


• 5S


• Kaizen


• Kanban


• TPM


• Visual Factory


• Work Cell Design


• Value Stream Mapping


• Line Balancing