James Shefka
Executive Operations Leader,Lean and Servant Leadership
- Role
- Director of Operations & System Improvement at ThedaCare
- Location
- Appleton, WI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Shefka
Enthusiastic leader delivering tens of millions in cost savings and revenue growth. Change agent that excels at coaching and mentoring all organizational levels and pulling value to customers.Direct operational leadership of teams over 275 staff and 12 managers leading product and service lines from $70 million to $600 Million in net revenue.Sponsor, Leader, facilitator and executive coach for over 200 kaizen events and direct work with Shingijutsu America Sensei for over 15 multi kaizen weeks.Lead and facilitated multiple strategic planning sessions within consumer packaged goods, metal machining, fabrication & healthcare organizations with focus on delivering for our customers and business within the next year and a horizon of five years.Develop and deliver on daily management process and outcome measures for complete organizations to shop floor success measures, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly
Experience
Director of Operations & System Improvement
Nov 2025 — Present
Education
Marian University of Fond du Lac
Master of Science - MS, Organizational Leadership & Quality
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Certificate, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial Technology - MfgE, Minor: Physics
AME, SME
Certificate, Lean Bronze certification
Skills
- Lean Manufacturing
- Tpm
- Six Sigma
- Continuous Improvement
- Kaizen
- Value Stream Mapping
- Operations Management
- Quality Management
- Problem Solving
- Kanban
- Change Management
- Inventory Management
- Team Building
- Mentoring
- 5s
- Leadership Development
- Healthcare
- Performance Improvement
- Operational Excellence
- Process Improvement
- Root Cause Analysis
- Management
- Training
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Lean Management
- Toyota Production System
- Dmaic
- Lean Transformation
- Business Process Improvement
- Leadership
- Lean Tools
- Lean Thinking
- Hospitals
- Quality Assurance
- Process Engineering
- Tqm
- Spc
- Program Management
- Software Documentation
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