Greg Lane

Greg Lane has owned and successfully transformed his own company, along with supporting others in leadership improvements in 32 countries, with diverse types of organizations. He has effectively led change while holding management and executive positions at General Motors and Delphi Automotive. His 25 years of worldwide experience was strongly influenced while working for Toyota in the late 1980s, when he was one of a handful selected to be developed as a Toyota Key Person, through a year of...See more

Greg Lane has owned and successfully transformed his own company, along with supporting others in leadership improvements in 32 countries, with diverse types of organizations. He has effectively led change while holding management and executive positions at General Motors and Delphi Automotive. His 25 years of worldwide experience was strongly influenced while working for Toyota in the late 1980s, when he was one of a handful selected to be developed as a Toyota Key Person, through a year of specialized training in Japan. This included working with Toyota's top trainers, and then returning to train others within Toyota at their U.S. sites. Greg learned early on that it's not technical tools and methodologies that drive the break-throughs; instead, it's cascading leadership throughout the organization and focusing leaders on a clearly communicated and deployed strategy. Today, Greg is internationally recognized as a coach in creating organizational change, and has been invited to speak on five continents about these successes. Also a recognized author, he has written these additional books and published in leadership and technical medias: -Made to Order Lean-Excelling in a High-Mix, Low-Volume Environment (Productivity Press, New York: 2007) -Mr. Lean Buys & Transforms a Manufacturing Company-The True Story of Profitably Growing an Organization with Lean Principals (CRC Press, New York: 2010) -Chapter 9 of Toyota by Toyota-Reflections from the Inside Leaders on the Techniques That Revolutionized the Industry (CRC Press, New York: 2012) Greg is a facility member of the Lean Institutes in the USA and Spain, as well as lecturer of post-graduate lean studies at the University Polytechnic Barcelona. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin as well as an MBA degree with distinction from California State University. He speaks English, Spanish and German. Greg and his associates provide cost effective support for improvements and transformations. He can be contacted at glane@strategic-leaders.com or more information can be found at: http: //... See less