Stephen Shaw

About Stephen Shaw

A versatile, cross-functional change agent with extensive experience in leadership roles and building world-class business systems at industry leaders such as General Electric, Danaher Corporation, and Berkshire Hathaway, and in applying this expertise to turn around, stabilize and drive growth in organizations in transition or going through significant transformation.• Accomplished commercial leader and continuous improvement executive with 20+ years of excellence in applying Lean Six Sigma principles to enhance the customer experience, maximize customer retention, improve overall team effectiveness and enable multimillion-dollar growth.• Leverages Lean Six Sigma tools to lead change initiatives across commercial and operational functions (including optimizing sales and service teams), resulting in continuous improvement cultures that optimize the entire customer experience and improve margins. A few of my achievements include:• Driving significant improvements at Pampered Chef in strategic planning, strategy deployment outcomes, and KPI deployment and achievement from 2018 to 2020.• Leading a complete earnings turnaround for Hatch Early Learning, from losses in 2015 to strong earnings growth in 2016 and 2017 (32% growth over the prior year).• Achieving $1.5M in cost savings by closing redundant facilities, streamlining the overall organization, and delivering 40% reduction of scrapped and lost inventory at Leica Microsystems. • Delivering 23% annual growth at Leica Microsystems while doubling operating profit in the Education, Forensics and Industrial market segments.• Realizing $120M in net income at GE Financial Assurance by deploying Six Sigma methodology while delivering $40M in benefits to the business and $4.5M in customer benefits by leading 40+ Master Black Belts and Black Belts to drive growth.

Experience

1. Executive Lean Leader- Uscan

   GE HealthCare

   Jul 2023 — Present · Traverse City, MI, US

   As a member of the USCAN senior leadership team and global lean leadership team- responsible for the deployment of the GE HealthCare lean business system supporting the growth of the USCAN region driving ~$8B in annual revenue supporting members.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  B.A., Organization Effectiveness

Skills

• Process Improvement
• Management
• Team Building
• Business Process Improvement
• Pultrusion
• Leadership Development
• Marketing
• Outsourcing
• Six Sigma
• Strategy
• Lean Sigma
• Sales Process
• Capital Equipment
• Start-Ups
• Global Perspective
• Sales Management
• Leadership
• Medical Devices
• Change Management
• Sales Operations
• Training
• Sales
• Process Piping Design
• Program Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Business Change Management
• Crm
• Virtual Teams