Mark Williams

About Mark Williams

Managing Partner for the North American Industrial Sector. Member of the Simpler Consulting Leadership team responsible for business development, C-Suite Coaching and large scale client transformations. Business leader with experience developing and delivering transformative and sustainable results across a broad range of industries and companies (aerospace, automotive, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, etc). Simpler® Consulting, an IBM company, is a global professional services firm of 150+ executives and experts partnering with clients to deliver meaningful improvements in strategy, organizational alignment, processes, and employee engagement. We help organizations — from healthcare to government to finance to industrial and more — create enduring results. Unlike traditional management consulting firms that fall short on execution, we not only help clients design their business transformation, we also play an active role in implementation. We provide client advisory, governance, strategy and operational excellence (strategy to action). With our proprietary Simpler Business System,® Simpler delivers the fastest and most enduring transformations possible — and our clients from around the world can attest to that.

Experience

1. Managing Partner, North America Industrial

   Simpler Consulting, An Ibm Company

   Jul 2020 — Present

Education

• Surface Warfare Officer School

  Shipboard Operations, Navigation, Engineering, and Leadership, Sea-bound readiness for surface combatants to fulfill Navy's mission of global maritime superiority.

• Emory & Henry University

  BA, Double Major - Economics and Business

  1978 — 1981

• U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School

  Commission, Leadership, Engineering, Operations & Navigation

  1982 — 1982

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Continuous Improvement
• Smed
• P&L Management
• Quality System
• Quality Management
• Hospitals
• Jit
• Plant Management
• Value Stream Mapping
• Team Building
• Process Improvement
• Product Development
• Healthcare
• Business Process Improvement
• Performance Improvement
• Manufacturing
• Lean Transformation
• Lean Manufacturing
• Operations Management
• Change Management
• Six Sigma
• Tpm
• 5s
• Supply Chain Management
• Leadership
• Toyota Production System
• Strategy
• Process Engineering
• Business Strategy
• Kaizen
• Dmaic
• Supply Chain
• Operational Excellence