Staff
Lee Kemp, Practice Director
For the last 13 years Lee has been supporting clients with business transformation and lean six sigma deployment in private and public sectors.
He is lean six sigma master black-belt coach, certified with the British Standards Institute at Black Belt level.
Having a passion for coaching he acquired masters level in personal and business coaching with Chester university.
His wider contribution to the consultancy profession has enabled him to be admitted as Fellow of the Institute of Business Consulting.
He is approved to deliver consultancy and business improvement qualifications, accredited with the Chartered Management Institute and Institute of Leadership and Management.
With over a decade of facilitating change with the likes of Airbus, Arriva, BAE, Bombardier, Chiltern Railways, Rolls Royce, Vodafone and others. Clients like the way he is able to use this experience to cross relate learning to real life examples.
Testimonials
“Having worked in the consulting sector for several years, I had the opportunity to work with Lee at RWD technologies. Lee is extremely professional and capable in any industry sector. Lee is extremely results and knowledge transfer focused and has taught me invaluable skills and knowledge during our time as colleagues. I look on our time as the most productive in my career and I can not stress the value of Lee's input. Lee is a credit to any organisation and will always deliver a multiple return on investment to any area he has the opportunity to work in. Highest regards.” March 22, 2010
“Lee did some excellent Six Sigma consulting for us, helping us to build a process dashboard and create metrics against which we could measure our performance. Lee's style as a coaching consultant works very well, particularly when interviewing customers in a 'voice of the customer exercise' and he is very measured and easy to work with. I'd have no hesitation working with Lee again.”
David Corfan, Technical Director, Openwave, January 17, 2010
“Lee provided creative out of the box solutions which allowed my business to react, mitigate & provide counter measures to production & operational problems. His management of visual techniques were innovative and highly valuable to my project success.” November 30, 2008
Scott Goldie, Project Portfolio Manager, Bombardier, November 30, 2008
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Joe Manzur, Associate
Joe has a manufacturing & engineering background with extensive lean experience across the private and public sectors. He was a leader of change for Honeywell transformation using lean six sigma. His passion is delivering sustainable lean solutions that are aligned to a company’s strategy and culture.
With over nine years of facilitating change with the likes of AgustaWestland, Airbus, BAE, Bombardier, Bosch Rexroth, Honeywell, NHS, Rolls Royce and others. Clients like his personal style, where he quickly forms trusting and open relationships. He is an effective coach, who is well organised, thorough in his approach and consistently delivers value from the clients perspective.
Testimonials
“Joe has a great personal style, forming trusting and open relationships with his clients. He can identify both tactical and strategic issues for a business and has a bulging toolkit of solutions which he is always willing to share. He is an effective coach, well organised and thorough in his approach and will always strive to deliver. Highly recommended.” November 8, 2008
“Joe is an extremely knowledgeable consultant, highly professional and always puts the clients needs first. It has been a pleasure to work with Joe, who has always been supportive of myself and anyone who has requested his support.” November 15, 2008
Julia Miles, Associate
Julia is an associate for Coaching For Change Ltd and Managing Director for Quality Education & Development Ltd. She has more than 25 years experience in learning and development and is a qualified trainer, assessor, verifier and coach. Her passion is to inspire clients to change, training coaches and mentors and coaching entrepreneurs. Her innovative online learning modules are validated by ILM. With extensive experience in all sectors Julia has worked with clients such as The Georgia Academy (USA), Kent County Council, Kent Police, Kent Fire and Rescue, National Energy Services, NCH, Shell, Surrey Education Department and others. Clients like the way Julia helps them to see opportunities and find solutions to their challenges.
Khalid Said, Principal Partner
Khalid has a construction background with hands on site experience in sub and super infra structure. With nearly 20 years under his belt in project management and consultancy roles, his lean experience is valued highly. He has masters in personal and business coaching from Chester University. His passion is to witness the positive change to individuals and business. His previous clients have given him very positive and inspiring feedback. With over a decade of facilitating change with the likes of Airbus, Agusta Westland, BAE, CHUBB, Schneider Optics, VELUX and others. Clients like the way he is able to coach others towards change, also his ability to change his coaching approach according to the environment and the people he is working with.
Testimonials
“Khalid is a person with the utmost integrity and as a consultant the consummate professional. I have worked with Khalid on various activities over the last 3.5 years and always found him to be knowledgeable, supportive, reliable and someone who is motivational and a great people person. I would have no hesitation in recommending Khalid for any consulting and / or coaching role.” April 21, 2010
“I have had the absolute pleasure of working with Khalid for the past three years. Very rarely do you come across someone so passionate about making a difference in 'every single day' and with 'every single client'. Khalid is the absolute professional who has drive, technical skill and a whole lot of passion to wrap it all up. I would be more than happy to recommend Khalid to any prospective client as I know that he will deliver every-time without fail.” April 21, 2010
Louise Graham, Associate
Louise has over 18 years in the Finance sector, leading Finance and Accounts related continuous improvement projects. Louise spent 5 years at the Walt Disney Company as senior manager in finance, reducing creditors from 70% to 10% and debtors from 80% to 14% before moving in to interim and consultancy roles. Her projects range from streamlining the processes involved with handling £100m of direct debit payments a month through to establishing "procure to pay" and transaction processing best practice. Clients include, The Walt Disney Company, Deluxe, First Choice Retail, Balfour Beatty, Abbey National, Carphone Warehouse and Barclaycard. Clients like her no nonsense approach, passion and commitment to get the best from process and people.
Testimonials
“Louise is a results oriented individual who has demonstrated significant leadership skills in the realm of the Procure to Pay process. Her understanding of the process is second to none and her interpersonal skills in dealing with difficult customers are first class. I would thoroughly recommend Louise as a leader in any transactional processing role but in particular for Procure to Pay.”
John Fields, Head of Finance, Abbey Bank (Santander), October 1, 2007
“I had the pleasure of working with Louise at Mapeley during 2009. What I noticed was how incredibly energetic and enthusiastic she was. Louise is very positive, ambitious, smart, incredibly organised and focussed. She was the perfect project manager. I would not hesitate to recommend her.”
Sheena Patel, Group Financial Reporting Accountant, MapeleyDecember 23, 2010
Mike Denison, Associate
Mike is an associate for Coaching For Change Ltd and MD for Lean Mentor International. Recruited and trained with Toyota for their new UK operation in the 90s. Mike has 19 years of extensive world class lean and business improvement experience applied across a wide range of manufacturing and service based industries, facilitating business performance improvement strategies & change with the likes of Airbus, Angel Trains, Arriva, Agusta Westland Helecopters, Bombardier Transportation, Changchun Rail China, DHL, Downer Rail Australia, Ford, Group 4 Securicor , Jaguar Cars, Mercedes Benz, NHS, Toyota, Westinghouse and others.
He has a manufacturing and service based background, a qualified performance coach. His passion is facilitating thinking and problem solving, developing individual and team potential through organisational transformation. Clients never forget the learning Mike draws out of them and many continue to utilise his services built on a trusting relationship. A highly sought after inspirational & motivational speaker , supporting The Princes Trust and Entrepreneurial Education in schools and Universities. Mike links lean thinking and personal development together in establishing a Lean Enterprise.
Peter Moran, Associate
Peter is an experienced PRINCE 2 practitioner qualified, programme & project manager. He has extensive experience in the banking sector, having responsibility for large infrastructure projects in financial services and cards processing, He has also led Data-center migrations, systems and applications upgrades and global implementation programmes. His key strengths are understanding and managing the requirements of diverse teams, engaging people across both business and technical functions.
Peter has worked in account and supplier management, communicating to board level, managing multidisciplinary teams and controlling multi-million £ budgets.
Trained in the US by Richard Bandler (The originator of NLP techniques) he works well with individuals and teams to achieve business goals and objectives.
Some clients Peter has worked for are: Belron (Autoglass), Lloyds Banking Group, Intel, Kellogg’s, Lucent Technologies, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, HSBC, TSYS, NS & I, HP, Compaq.
