Les Cowie

Having issues with productivity? Is increased unit cost reducing your profit per unit? Are faults on the job causing your unit costs to rise or impacting customer satisfaction negatively? Les Cowie's 7 Steps methodology delivers results!

Let Les Cowie talk with you and your people

Cowie focuses on these areas:

• Examining productivity and costs to identify critical areas for technical training.
• Providing quick solutions for analyzing occupations. The solutions are found in his 7 Step Approach. https://www.7stepslms.com.
• Helping CEOs and their training teams take an fresh look at their orgaizations by examining them according to 'The Profit Pillar' that applies to ALL orgaizations whether manufacturing, commercial, service, non-profit or even local, state or Federal Governament.
• Focusing on the 20% of issues that impact 80% of the occupation and the business.
• Developing learning experiences including internet-based programs delivered via VR headsets, tablets and smartphones.

Based on his experience with venture capital companies buying, building and selling organizations, Cowie draws on his experience spanning multiple industries and organizations to isolate cost-escalating problems.  His processes help you focus on increasing throughput, reducing faults and containing costs while delivering improved customer service, employee relations and quicker job productivity.

The Pareto Principle innovatively applied to Occupations and Organizations

Cowie developed his 7 StepTM system to help organizations quickly identify to 20% of issues causing 80% of the organization's losses.  Where these are employee-related, Cowie has unique solutions for high occupancy jobs, jobs spread geographically and even low occupancy jobs that have high impact on costs and profits.

Cowie has also created an innovative approach to presenting training for process improvement and talent development. His instructional tools use web-based videos and digital job-related simulators designed to resolve the 20/80 issues. 

The Promising People Program

Currently Cowie is leading a major project to provide mixed reality solutions via the Oculus Headset for the training of trade skills for inmates 90 days prior to release.  Following release, hands on practice and testing at a techincal school students receive a Pre-Apprentice Trade Certificate.  Promising People Placement, LLC guarantees a job for each student qualifying for the Pre-Apprentice certificate.  The 'Adopt a Promising Person' program is a faith-based organization providing financial, emotional and spiritual support to graduates to keep them at work and reduce recidivism.  The program also applies to veterans, inner city youngsters, suitable homeless individuals and the 55+ age group.

Personal

Cowie immigrated to the United States from South Africa, where he taught technological skills to people with limited or poor access to education and restricted by language constraints. For more than 33 years, he's worked with venture capital groups and corporations in the USA to acquire, develop, and sell businesses in manufacturing, commercial, and service enterprises.

Cowie was a loving husband before losing his wife, Fran, to cancer in March 2017. He is the proud father of three grown children: Rob (producer of The Blair Witch Project), Colette, and Ian. Cowie currently resides in Orlando, Florida.