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title: BTOES EXCLUSIVE SLIDE DECK: Leadership, Developing Lean Leaders, Leverage of Training & Projects to Enhance Business Value
description: Leadership, Developing Lean Leaders, Leverage of Training & Projects to Enhance Business Value
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# [BTOES EXCLUSIVE SLIDE DECK: Leadership, Developing Lean Leaders, Leverage of Training & Projects to Enhance Business Value](https://insights.btoes.com/btoes18-slides/operational-excellence/leadership-developing-lean-leaders-leverage-of-training-projects-to-enhance-business-value-0)

 Written by [BTOES Insights Official](https://insights.btoes.com/author/btoes-insights-official) | Jan 24, 2019, 12:00:00 PM

Courtesy of ***Northrop Grumman Corporation***, **'Leadership, Developing Lean Leaders, Leverage of Training & Projects to Enhance Business Value'** offers the following exceptional takeaways:

- **Professional engagement, maintaining a vibrant relationship between departments and the business needs of the company**
- **Employees engagement: daily management and processes**
- **Recruitment: essential processes to recruit/train likeminded people**
- **Establishing robust communication across all business lines eliminating stress and managing expectations**
- **Ensuring long-term sustainability of each project: how to keep teams engaged, increase understanding and belief in the project and in the leadership**

<https://insights.btoes.com/operational-excellence/leadership,-developing-lean-leaders,-leverage-of-training-&-projects-to-enhance-business-value>

**About Northrop Grumman Corporation**

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, and logistics and modernization to customers worldwide. Their employees are driven by a purpose and mission to secure the world. In 2015, the company was the fifth-largest arms trader in the world and ranked No. 124 on the Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations. Download this slide deck to see John King discuss their journey, and learn ***how to ensure employees engagement in the transformation and true culture change.***

 

**About the Author**

John King is a **Continuous Improvement Chief Engineer for Northrop Grumman Corporation** where he is responsible for **Implementation of large scale transformational improvement projects** and **training of Continuous Improvement Techniques** including **Lean** and **Six Sigma** processes. 

Mr. King is an industry veteran with **over 25 years of experience in Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality Management** in a number of industries including consumer products, automobiles, aerospace, communications, and capital equipment manufacturing. Much of this experience has been in the areas of cost reduction and process improvement. He has made several presentations of the results of his work in **Process Improvement** and **Lead Time Management** at regional, national, and International conferences.

Moreover, he is a **Six Sigma Master Black Belt**, a licensed Professional Engineer, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Maryland World Class Consortia. He is also a graduate of Georgia Tech (Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Mechanical Engineering) and Loyola University of Maryland (MBA).

***These slides were first presented at the Business Transformation and Operational Excellence World Summit ([BTOES](http://btoes.com/)). To learn more, please visit [btoes.com](http://btoes.com/).***

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