Services
I work through the decisions with you, not just hand you a report. It starts with a conversation.
Not ready to talk? Start with the Technical Team Self-Assessment, written for R&D and engineering leaders.
Ask for itThe Assessment
Where is our biggest risk and return?
- Time with you and your team
- An agreed scope for what comes next
The Project
How do we get this one right?
- Focused projects with agreed outcomes
- Hands-on technical work with your engineers
Ongoing Partnership
How do we keep getting it right?
- Skills built inside your team
- Support as new decisions come up
Coaching & Speaking
How do I make the case for my team?
- One-on-one technical and leadership coaching
- Speaking and training for teams and industry groups
The Assessment
Every company is different, so I don't start with a fixed answer.
- For
- Technical and business leaders deciding where R&D and engineering should focus next.
- What I do
- Spend time with you and your team across your products, plant, people and customers, and look for where the biggest risk and return sit.
- You walk away with
- A shared view of where the biggest risk and return sit, and an agreed scope for what comes next, before either of us commits to more.
- Covers
- All four areas
The Project
I take on the opportunity that matters most. Scope and outcomes are agreed up front.
- For
- Leaders with a specific decision or opportunity in front of them: a new product, a faster or higher-quality process, the next step for an existing one, a cost target, or a team working better together.
- What I do
- Work through the decisions with you, weighing the engineering and business consequences together, and stay with you while the changes are put in place.
- You walk away with
- The decision made and backed by data, and the changes in place with your team.
- Covers
- The right workThe right way of working
Hands-on technical work
When a decision depends on the technical answer, I work alongside your engineers to get it, so the decision rests on data rather than opinion. The work covers products and the processes that make them.
Experiments
Designed and run to answer the question at hand, on a product or a process.
Prototypes
Built and tested with your engineers.
Trials
Material and process trials on your line, for quality, speed and cost.
Depth: materials development, plastics processing, product design and engineering, statistics and experiment design.
You get: the answer and the data behind it.
Ongoing Partnership
I work with clients from decision through to impact.
- For
- Teams that have made a decision and want it to hold, and leaders who want a sounding board as new decisions come up.
- What I do
- Build the skills inside your team so this becomes how you work, and stay alongside as new product and engineering decisions come up.
- You walk away with
- A team that keeps the skills and the way of working after the project ends.
- Covers
- The right people and skillsThe right way of working
Coaching
One-on-one support drawn from twelve years leading teams and helping manage a $1B new-product portfolio.
- For
- R&D and engineering leaders and their technical leads.
- What I do
- Work through the decisions on your desk: which projects deserve the next three years, how to manage across competing priorities, how to develop your team, and how to make the case for it at the leadership table.
- You walk away with
- Clearer calls on portfolio, resources and people, and a stronger case for your team at the leadership table.
- Covers
- The right workThe right people and skillsThe right support
Speaking and Training
The same ideas, brought to your team or your industry.
- For
- Your team, your leadership group, or your industry association.
- What I do
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- Talks: conference sessions, association talks and executive briefings.
- Workshops: understanding customers, screening new ideas, mapping how work flows, and people-centered leadership.
- Technical training: experiment design and statistics, design for customers, and structured problem solving, built around your own products.
- You walk away with
- New skills your team applies to your own products.
- Covers
- The right people and skills