Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products, and services that improve teamwork, clarity, and employee engagement.

Lencioni’s passion for organizations and teams is reflected in his writing, speaking, and executive consulting. He is the author of eleven best-selling books with nearly five million copies sold. His capstone book, The Advantage, is the pre-eminent source on organizational health and became an immediate best-seller. After twelve years in print, his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, remains a weekly fixture on national best-seller lists. He is also author to The Ideal Team Player, a much-anticipated follow-up to his team book.

The wide-spread appeal of Lencioni’s leadership models have yielded a diverse base of speaking and consulting clients, including a mix of Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, the military, non-profits, schools, and churches.

Lencioni addresses thousands of leaders each year at world-class organizations and national conferences. Consistently the top rated keynote speaker at major events, Lencioni shares his insights and inspires his audiences through his accessibility, humor and story-telling.

Named in Fortune magazine as one of the ‘ten new gurus you should know,’ Lencioni and his work have been featured in USA TODAY, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Harvard Business Review, to name a few.

Prior to founding his firm, he worked as a corporate executive for Sybase, Oracle and Bain & Company. Pat lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and four sons.

SUMMARY

Experienced supply chain leader in consumer products industry: Experienced working in multiple geographies with various manufacturing technologies. Leader in initiative launches, engineering project execution, process development, and supply chain design.  Skilled at creating structure and building capability to deliver breakthroughs in innovation and project execution.  Able to inspire and lead innovation in various cultures.  Passionate in leading organizations.

Work Summary
The Procter and Gamble Company                                                   1993 – current

23 years at P&G in Product Supply and Research&Development roles focused on innovation and executing of large capital projects execution.

– Tissue/Towel (Papermaking and converting technologies)
– Diapers and Baby Wipes (web handling, materials assembly, and packing technologies)
– Laundry Detergent & Dish Soap (Formulated processes and packing)
– Central Engineering experience leading key technical systems and multi-BU project executions

Assignments in Cincinnati OH (18 years), Green Bay WI (2 years) and Beijing China (3 years) with shorter term project assignments in Toronto, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Vietnam and Japan.

• Director, Product Supply Engineering – Cincinnati                         Aug 2013 – current
  Program Technical leader for Supply Chain Redesign for North America across multiple categories;  Responsible for NA and LA regional delivery of Physical Distribution and Automation capital projects;  Global Owner of Health Safety Environment, Facilities Engineering Design and Capital Management.
  Reports to the V.P. of Engineering; Accountable to the regional PS VPs for NA and LA.
• Associate Director, Product Supply Engineering, Asia Fabric & Home Care  2011-2013
  Based in Beijing China; Delivered $80-$120 Million per year in capital project executions to increase capacity through new site construction and expansions at existing sites and deliver the launch of new initiatives.  Responsible for managing organization of 150 Engineers located in Asia regional technical centers and plants in China, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Philippines, and Singapore.
  Reported to a Global Engineering Director for Fabric and Home Care; Accountable to 3 regional GMs – Greater China, Japan/Korea and AAI
• Associate Director – Product Supply Engineering, Global Baby Care 2008-2010
  Led Global Process&Engineering organizations for Pants and Wipes to deliver new initiatives and increase capacity at existing sites; Responsible for the upstream technical work to confirm readiness for launch – including the demonstration work on lead lines.  Owned the technology choices for the equipment and process platforms; Implemented the first PLCM approaches in Wipes and fostered reapplication of PLCM in to other technology areas; Initiated new technology path for Pants.
  Dual reporting to R&D and Product Supply Directors as the organization was a blend.
• Associate Director – Process Development and Engineering, Family Care 2006-2008
  Led Global Process&Engineering organizations for Bounty Towels to deliver new initiatives and reduce costs at existing sites; Responsible for the upstream technical work to confirm readiness for product launches.  Delivered 3 consecutive years of business building initiatives including Bounty Extra Soft launch and expansions of Bounty Mainline and Bounty Basic.
  Dual reporting to R&D and Product Supply Directors as the organization was a blend.
• Associate Director – Product Supply Engineering, Family Care 2005-2006
  First role at executive level;  Responsible for Capacity planning and execution for the NA Tissue/Towel business;  Led +$150million capacity expansion;  Completed siting study for future new production center in US.  Responsible for papermaking and converting technology program to deliver capacity through speed-ups at existing sites.
• Engineering, Process Development, Planning and Manufacturing roles 1993-2005
  Formative roles – Entry level through Group Manager/Section Head – in Tissue/Towel
  – Capital Management: Cost Engineering, Project Engineering, Project Management
  – Design manager for new technology developments in Converting and Papermaking
  – Technical Systems Mgr/Plant Engineer for Green Bay site – 2 years
  – Initiative and Supply Planning for Puffs (facial tissue) and Canada Family Care

EDUCATION
BS, General Engineering, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana 1992
MS, General Engineering, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana 1993

PERSONAL
Mother to Katherine 2004 and Victoria 2004;
Married to Jeff Ford since 1997
Born in St. Louis Missouri

I enjoy Yoga, The Arts, Scuba Diving, Traveling, Hiking,
Entertaining, Zumba and walking our dog (Jackpot).

Karen Martin is a leading authority on Lean management and business performance improvement. She’s the Shingo Award-winning author of The Outstanding Organization, in which she addresses how companies can improve their performance by reducing the organizational chaos they create for themselves. Her pragmatic approach to business excellence focuses on developing fundamental organizational behaviors that open the door to sustainable growth, greater profit, and a deeply engaged workforce.

In business since 1993, Karen and her team have worked with clients in nearly every sector, including AT&T, Chevron, Epson, the U.S. Navy, Franklin Templeton Investments, Hallmark Cards, Intel, Mayo Clinic, Goodwill Industries, the Department of Homeland Security, and GlaxoSmithKline. And Karen has helped to deepen understanding and build skill sets in leaders and improvement professionals in 30 countries.

She attributes her passion for quality, efficiency, and helping businesses develop strong problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities to her early career as a scientist. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from Penn State University, and a Master’s degree in adult learning from California State University, Bakersfield.

In addition to authoring The Outstanding Organization, Karen is the co-author of the award-winning Value Stream Mapping, The Kaizen Event Planner, and Metrics-Based Process Mapping. She’s currently under contract with McGraw-Hill for her fifth book, the much-anticipated Clarity First.