Meet the team! Our Trainers and Experts
Our two Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belts are shown below, including their profiles.
John Wellwood is a graduate from Napier University in Edinburgh. His training has been in Manufacturing Management, Manufacturing improvement, Lean Manufacturing, MRPII, JIT, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Strategic development, TQM, supply chain management, business process reengineering and business diagnostic and improvement.
He has worked internationally for companies such as Kodak, KPMG and Invensys as a business consultant for over 12 years. He has worked at all levels of these companies from corporate board level to shop floor. He has also worked as an operations director for UVG an automotive company where he was responsible for all aspects of the business.
For the last 5 years he has provided advise and support to SME's and multi national companies working as a business coach, advisor and trainer working for Strategic Business Partners Ltd a company he founded. Throughout his career he has worked in Europe, USA, Brazil and Australia on almost any business issue possible.
John now specialises in lean manufacturing, business development and people development through providing consultancy support and training. He is deeply involved in developing small and medium sized businesses through improving every aspect of their business.
Joe Cash is an international Master Black Belt having consulted in 6 countries, trained and certified over 1500 people in Lean Six Sigma, and run projects in almost every area of business and in numerous industry sectors.
Joe started his career as an apprentice engineer making road tankers. He became proficient in all aspects of fabrication. He then moved to Thorn Colour Tubes and joined the quality department. He then went to B.O.C. in a production supervisory role, manufacturing gas equipment. From there he went to AlliedSignal/Honeywell and held several positions, both in production and quality. While there, he graduated with a BSc from the Open University in Mathematics, majoring in Statistics, he then graduated with an MSc in Management Development at Lancaster University. He also trained as a Master Black Belt and developed and deployed Lean Six Sigma and DFSS in the early stages of the deployment for Allied Signal / Honeywell helping to shape the training which is still used today. Joe also served on the Industrial Advisory Board at UCL. Fellow of the Royal statistical society delivery lectures to the fellowship.
He then took on the role of European Quality Manager and Master Black Belt at an electronics company, introducing Lean Six Sigma and achieving accreditation to ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 14000.
In 2003 Joe started consultancy / training and has worked with large and small businesses including – BT, BAA, Nissan, Vauxhall, Atmel, Capita, BBI, Renault, Norwich Union, Sellafield etc. The consultancy assignments have ranged from training, coaching and certification of Green Belts, Black Belts and Master Black Belts, design of Lean Six Sigma deployments, process reengineering etc.
CORE SKILLS: -
Six Sigma, Lean, Minitab, Supplier Development, 5S, Business Process Redesign (BPR), Total Quality Management, Lean Enterprise, Cultural Change, New Product Introduction.
COMPANIES / CLIENTS: -
AlliedSignal/Honeywell - Quality Leader, Black Belt, Master Black Belt. Pactrol – European HS&Q Manager & Master Black Belt.
As a consultant, Vauxhall, BT, Atmel, BAA, Capita, Aircell, Nissan, Sellafield, etc
SECTORS
Manufacturing, Automotive, Fabrication, Printing, Electronic components, Telecommunications, Consultancy, Aerospace, Semiconductor manufacturing, Gas equipment manufacture.
