Charlie Hagan, Consultant

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General Expertise

Charlie Hagan is a proven turn–around management specialist and manufacturing industry expert. He has successfully directed several company–wide Lean Enterprise transformations through hands–on, top management roles as a business owner and investor, an interim manager and a consulting engagement manager. He works effectively from the top floor to the shop floor to achieve speedy, quantum results in quality, customer satisfaction, productivity and profitability, by skillfully integrating LeanSigma tools and principles and other proven business management techniques.

Individual Areas of Expertise

• Operations Assessment/Due Diligence – Accelerated evaluation of client’s target acquisitions or current holdings to measure operational risk, to assess organizational strength and business process effectiveness, and to quantify opportunities and P&L goals.
• Change Leadership / Turnaround Specialist – In an interim role, personally lead the creation of the vision and strategy, the implementation plan, and the opportunity realization.
• Leadership Coaching – Work directly with in-place leadership to teach them the tools, help them shape the vision, to identify and develop the internal change leaders, and to advise and challenge them as they drive improvement.
• LeanSigma Enterprise – Achieving near-term dramatic results by increasing working capital ‘turns’, right-sizing inventories, managing constraints, and by reducing cycle time, defects, waste, and variability across all business processes.

Professional Background

• President/CEO/COO:
• Aerostar Manufacturing
• Workrite Aerostar Tool & Die
• Premier Fabricating & Stamping
• Continental Manufacturing Int’l.
• Suckle Inc. (Computer Products)
• Director of Materials, Ensign-Bickford Industries
• Director of Procurement, Duracell USA
• Senior Consultant/Principal:
• Change Leadership Associates
• The Capra Group, Inc
• Lean Alliance, Inc.

Representative Clients

• Miller Company
• GE Capital
• Allied-Signal
• Honeywell
• Raytheon
• Delphi
• World Kitchen
• GSK
• PTA Corp.
• Light Metals Coloring
• Ducommun
• Special Devices Inc.
• K&M Electronics
• ITT
• HBA Cast Products
• KVH Industries

Education and Associations

• B.A., Business Admin., Mercy College
• Member of APICS
• Listed in Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals

"… the most effective and transformational leaders are able to articulate and personally demonstrate, their understanding of the improvement potential, AND the tools to get there. They provide the vision, the direction and, most importantly, the EXAMPLE… they are not afraid to catch people doing something RIGHT along the way. It is our continuing mission to help them make this so."