Along with Enna's Public Tours, they also offer
Private Customized Tours. Each Tour will:
- Be completely customized by Dr. Michel
Mestre, Collin McLoughlin and Enna.
- Tour companies based on your company's
industry, maximizing your experience.
- Allow more people within your company to
receive the knowledge to implement lean.
Increasing your ability to implement lean
within your own company successfully.
- Customized lesson plans and training
workshops.
- Exclusive access to management executives.
No other company besides Enna has access to Lean
facilities and top management executives due to
Enna's close relationship with Japanese
companies and the publication of
Dr. Shingo's
works (original consultant to Toyota) and Mr.
Ishizaka (former president of Toyota USA). This
tour will be a great experience for any leader
and student of Lean. Every participant will have
one-on-one exclusive access to Japanese Lean
thinkers and learn from their experiences and
simple solutions.
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The Toyota Way in Sales & Marketing,
Yoshio Ishizaka, for more information or to
purchase please
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Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking,
Shigeo Shingo, for more information or to
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Information to provide us during
the initial contact:
- What do you build/make with the people that
will be going on the tour.
- What are the responsibilities (in the
company) of the people going on the tour. We
suggest listing their names and
responsibilities.
- Annual volume of products, by product.
- Seasonality of production by product.
- Number of employees within the organization.
- How the organization is structured
(organizational structure chart).
- Rank the level of Lean knowledge for each
member going on the tour, years of experience,
role in Lean, and number of workshops lead.
- Provide some summaries of the workshops you
have done with a picture of the product.
This information is required so
that Enna can arrange
a tour that will align with your company's specific
needs and requirements.
To discuss your needs regarding our Private Tours
please feel free to contact us anytime.*Note: Private Tours currently
require a 4 month lead time and require a minimum of
15 people. Price will be determined by total number
of participants and tour specific details.
Led by Dr. Michel Mestre
 For
the last 30 years Dr. Mike Mestre has been on a
journey studying productivity and working on
turnarounds with various companies, worldwide. After
receiving his Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering
from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr.
Mestre started his professional career at Boeing
where he was involved in the planning and
engineering of the 737 production line. He then
moved from Seattle to Buffalo, NY to work with The
Carborundum Company where he held the positions of
new products commercialization, marketing and
Economic and Strategic Planning Manager.
With years of education and
practical experience, he founded a management
consultancy firm which focused on turnaround
operations to make companies profitable. For the
next 13 years, Mike pioneered change-management in a
variety of industries across the globe. Through
corporate and consulting experience he developed his
philosophy that the performance of an organization
is a direct reflection of management practices.
Mike left the consulting industry
to focus full-time on organizational performance and
started his professorship at Trinity Western
University, formalizing his experience with
different management techniques and cultures of
implementation. He is committed to the idea that
management’s true responsibility is to instill a
culture that values innovation and compels everyone
to give his or her best effort. It is this steadfast
conviction that has led Dr. Mestre to Japan many
times, to study and develop relationships within
organizations that have reached this goal. The value
that Dr. Mestre adds to Enna’s Japan Study Mission
lies in his high-level comprehension of Lean, his
researched opinions, and the practical experience he
carries in transferring knowledge from paper to
practice.
Dr. Mestre is currently the
Senior Professor at Northwestern University in
Kirkland, WA and Adjunct Professor at Kyoto
International University, Kyoto Japan. He was also
invited as a research fellow at Nagoya University,
Japan; Tilburg University, The Netherlands; and,
Warwick Business School, United Kingdom. In addition
to these accomplishments and honors, Dr. Mestre is
an active member the editorial advisory board of the
International Journal of Business Performance
Management and the Center for Interdisciplinary
Strategic Management Research, London, England.
As one of your tour hosts Dr.
Mestre provides a great degree of knowledge about
business and the benefits of different management
systems. He has taught and led over 20,000 people in
organizational change in 20 different industries.
Education:
B.S. Engineering, University of California,
Berkeley.
M.B.A. Pacific Lutheran University.
M.S. Engineering, State University of New York,
Buffalo.
Ph.D. Business, Middlesex University, London, UK.
Led by Collin McLoughlin
 In
1996, Collin visited Japan without knowing it would
change his personal and professional life forever.
After touring the premier companies of Japan, he
became fascinated with the efficiency of their
manufacturing practices and the promise it held for
industry across the globe.
Over the course of the following
12 years, Collin helped lead the startup of an
internationally recognized consulting firm. During
the five years Collin spent there, he transformed
its consulting model to a value-based model and
parted ways as the most successful member of its
consulting team. His departure from this firm was
the first stepping stone on Collin’s journey to
international recognition as a true innovator in the
field of process improvement. His next step found
him in Brussels, Belgium, where he accepted a
position from DHL Express Logistics to become their
Infrastructure Engineering Manager, responsible for
implementing a strategic process improvement plan
for 300 fulfillment and distribution centers across
three continents.
From his days as captain of his
ice hockey team to forging his own publishing
company, leadership is a natural fit for Collin. His
scholastic aptitude and shop-floor work ethic has
produced a Lean education that is unparalleled in
applying theory to real-world application. In 2004,
Collin established Enna Products Corporation to put
his unique skills to work in providing companies
with the materials to lead their own process
improvement efforts without the aid of consultants.
In every product and book Collin publishes, you will
find the focus is always on providing the trainer
with the knowledge necessary for success. Enna’s
slogan of “Knowledge into Practice” is reflective of
this outlook and serves as the defining difference
between other publishing companies and Enna.
As one of your tour hosts, Collin
brings a wealth of experience and insight to the
needs of your company. He has lead many trips to
Japan and personally trained over 4000 people in
process improvement, and has training experience in
12 different industries. If you have a problem,
chances are he has seen it before; he is the author
of over 150 published products in the process
improvement field. Collin’s knowledge of Lean
Manufacturing and leadership skills have provided
companies around the world with the framework to
success, but his most unique asset is empowering
others to succeed. Let him put you in contact with
the resources and people to accomplish that success.
Education:
Six Sigma Black Belt, Fulton School of Engineering,
Arizona State University
MBA, Operations Strategy, Warwick Business School
Industrial and Mechanical Engineering
BBA, Honor’s in Finance, Trinity Western University |
