Scott Gauvin

Scott Gauvin

CA, US
Lack of disrespect doesn't equate to practicing "Respect for People". Organizational change requires mindset and behavioral shifts. You will learn the practices that enable sustainable change.

Scott is a seasoned change agent with over 25 years experience successfully helping organizations realize their potential. Throughout his career, Scott's focus has been on driving performance gains through organizational alignment and a progressive approach to operations strategy. He has advised companies the world over and across a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, biotech, consumer goods, medical devices, agriculture, packaging, legal service, banking, food processing and industrial manufacturing.

In addition to driving the growth of Macresco's consultancy practice, Scott counsels client organizations in transition and is most often involved in strategic endeavors that include assessing and improving upon company capabilities and capacity for change as well as innovating underperforming business models to improve market opportunity.

A core element of the Macresco practice is the Lean manufacturing or the Toyota Priduction Systems practice of Respect for People. Being nice or the lack of disrespect does not equate to practicing respect for people. It's not unusual that organizations that "do" Lean, actually practice the elements on the Continuous Improvement side of Lean, but there are two pillars that have equal importance, they support each other and practicing both are necessary. Macresco has developed the rubric to help organizations navigate this more elusive element of Lean.

Prior to launching Macresco, Scott was a business management consultant and began his career in the tech space specializing in systems design and architecture.

He holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, an MBA from Boston University and is a Six Sigma Black Belt. Scott is also a frequent speaker and has presented for the American Society of Quality, The Shingo Conference, The Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Fabtech, Vistage Boston University School of Management and California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo among others.

Scott is a seasoned change agent with over 25 years experience successfully helping organizations realize their potential. Throughout his career, Scott's focus has been on driving performance gains through organizational alignment and a progressive approach to operations strategy. He has advised companies the world over and across a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, biotech, consumer goods, medical devices, agriculture, packaging, legal service, banking, food processing and industrial manufacturing.

In addition to driving the growth of Macresco's consultancy practice, Scott counsels client organizations in transition and is most often involved in strategic endeavors that include assessing and improving upon company capabilities and capacity for change as well as innovating underperforming business models to improve market opportunity.

A core element of the Macresco practice is the Lean manufacturing or the Toyota Priduction Systems practice of Respect for People. Being nice or the lack of disrespect does not equate to practicing respect for people. It's not unusual that organizations that "do" Lean, actually practice the elements on the Continuous Improvement side of Lean, but there are two pillars that have equal importance, they support each other and practicing both are necessary. Macresco has developed the rubric to help organizations navigate this more elusive element of Lean.

Prior to launching Macresco, Scott was a business management consultant and began his career in the tech space specializing in systems design and architecture.

He holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, an MBA from Boston University and is a Six Sigma Black Belt. Scott is also a frequent speaker and has presented for the American Society of Quality, The Shingo Conference, The Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Fabtech, Vistage Boston University School of Management and California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo among others.

Respect for People - The missing elements in organizational change efforts

One of the biggest challenges to achieving the promise of Lean is the understanding that success hinges on practicing BOTH of its equally important tenets - Continuous Improvement and Respect For People.

The problem is that there is only a defined rubric for half of the Lean equation - the CI side.

The Respect for People side is explained simply as "Respect "and "Teamwork" with very little clarification or qualification about how these principles impact CI or the adoption of...

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Conflict is the Root of All Waste

When companies tackle performance improvement, they typically do so with the physical implications of change in mind: process, space, materials, time and human capital. But an insidious waste undermines value even more significantly and pervasively: Unresolved conflict. Designed for leadership and change agents, this workshop walks participants through the rarely discussed and even more rarely addressed behavior side of performance improvement implementation.

Discover the secret...
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