Dermot Freeman can offer a significant amount of expertise garnished over the last 37 years (30 of them in senior management) in all aspects of driving your operation forward in today’s challenging times. He is a Master Black Belt practitioner of Lean and has worked for Irish, German, Japanese and several American organisations across the food, medical device and FMCG sectors. He has also worked with major companies in developing their Lean strategies and how to implement them. He is also a Certified Scrum Master using the Lean techniques in the software development sector.

Dermot is an engineer and he has continued to hone his skills throughout that time. A natural teacher and mentor, he has developed many a team member to go on to fulfill their potential while delivering on the needs of the time.

He has been involved in all aspects of Lean since the early eighties. He was involved initially in the QWL program pioneered in the US Automotive organisations and then worked with the Philip Cosby program of “Zero Defects/Quality is Free” during the eighties. During the nineties it was Schonberger’s “World Class Manufacturing” – all of which were based on the fundamentals of the Toyota Way. All of these programs have now evolved into what we call today Lean Techniques.

Dermot has been involved in implementing Lean programs across a multitude of disciplines and processes. He has developed strategic plan implementation programs that allows each level to see how their objectives are a real and tangible part of the overall goal.

Dermot has been educated at University College Dublin, University of Waterloo, Ontario and University of Limerick. He has worked for Kerry Co-Op, American Hospital Supply, Baxter, Odlum Group, Oral-B, Olympus, Beckman Coulter and Danaher Corporation. He is a founding member of the Court Of Experts and is a regular contributor to many other networking groups.

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