
Patrick Steele
Experience Working As A Leader In Organizations:
- Leader of Change and Transformation, Over 30 years experience steering behavioral and cultural shifts across multisite international operations. Has experience driving results in multibillion-dollar businesses and driving value creation in the private equity sector.
- Elevates organizational performance and impacts business results by driving accountability through lean principles and a focus on continuous improvement. Builds cost-effective infrastructures, optimizes resources and enables long-term growth.
- Created value, drove results, introduced Lean, and provided Operations leadership throughout business. Focused on developing a continuous improvement culture across four plants. Drove growth and cost improvement initiatives that delivered revenue growth from $49M to $72M while doubling EBIDTA from $6M to $12M.
Coaching And Facilitation Background:
- Have empowered teams across the world (USA, Belgium, Mexico, China, Germany, India and the Netherlands). Built teams empowered to make decisions, focused on continuous improvement and consistently delivering results.
- Left the corporate environment and launched his coaching practice in October 2022.
- Led business integrations in U.S. and Europe with three different companies.
- Led major culture change moving a business from a family run culture to a culture focused on repeatable business processes.
Relevant Business Experience:
- Transformed operations through introduction of Lean, Six Sigma, Strategy Deployment and Visual Daily Management practices. Established company’s first Lean process engineering department, led introduction to sales process excellence, and delivered multimillion-dollar annual savings.
- Created five-year strategy focused on doubling the output of the business. Grew revenue by 50% In three years.
Education And Training:
- Licensed Navigational Conversations Facilitator.
- Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from U.S. Naval Academy.
- Six Sigma Black Belt.
- Lean Certified.