About
About Onward Business Mechanics
Put serious problem-solving horsepower to work for you
I founded Onward Business Mechanics in 2011 to help companies everywhere work faster, safer, cleaner, better.
Sounds too good to be true, but it’s not. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Take that first step and get in touch with me today. I’d love to hear about your organization and what you’d like to do better today!
Consultancy with a social conscience
Enhancing the culture of an organization unquestionably improves the quality of life of everyone in it. On a humanistic level, this makes sense. I have some specialized technical skills (statistics being a favourite!), but most of the value that I add is in building bridges of connections and capacity. I connect people to the potential in each other and in themselves.
In 2008, I had the opportunity to see how universal these tools and methods really are. I spent an entire year working in the Peruvian operations of a Canadian company in a Continuous Improvement leadership role where I coached others to complete their projects worth millions of dollars. Not only did I learn a lot about culture, business and leadership in general during my time in Peru, but also, after falling in love with the people of Peru, I became interested in the field of international development. I found myself wanting to use my skills and education to help better the lives of those people.
Good for business, good for people
As a professional engineer, it’s important to me that the skills I have use in my working life mesh perfectly with my motivation to change the world for the better. Now, outside of my ‘official’ consulting activities, I support a wide range of professional mentoring, social enterprise and non-profit initiatives. In fact, in 2013 Onward Business Mechanics will begin pursuing B-Corporation status.
In both my work and my volunteer projects, I teach people how to break down and solve problems, empower them to believe in themselves, help them define what success looks like and how to recognize when they have succeeded. I help managers define and communicate and motivate. I help set up everyone to succeed, basically, in making things better.
I thank you for stopping by and hope that you will drop me a line so that we can discover what experiences and goals we have in common, and how I can help you make your business world a whole lot better.
Purpose
Our purpose is to unlock the potential for breakthrough innovation so that our clients have the capacity to become the leading changemakers of a better world.
Mission
We help companies do things better by building their capacity with teaching tools and changing their culture. We work in partnership with industry leaders in manufacturing, mining, and professional services to inspire them to do the best they can in any given market, timeframe, or circumstance. Our holistic approach of addressing human, financial, and technical systems entirely makes our solutions more effective and more sustainable in their impact.
Core Values
Safety
We prioritize the well-being of employees of our clients over other business imperatives
Honesty
We run on open communication between our clients’ employees.
Respect
We honour the contributions of every member of a client’s team. We are all important.
Creativity
We encourage and promote lateral thinking, new options, effective brainstorming.
Innovation
We embrace change as an imperative of business, and celebrate its many successful iterations and contributions over history.
Executive Team
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Safety
Focused results based on strategy and reality.
What we do prioritizes the well-being of employees of our clients over other business imperatives such as productivity and profit; this includes physical safety (an environment that measures and incents few injuries and incidents), psychological safety (an environment that values its people’s ideas and voices, creates opportunities for them to contribute, and encourages people to report and reflect on mistakes and problems, for example) and financial safety (a company that prioritizes preserving jobs even in tough economic conditions, and ideally provides employees with a share in the success of the company in the form of profit-sharing).
- Missed production targets
- Spiraling operations costs
- Standards aren’t being followed
- Disengaged / unmotivated front lines
- Establishing support from Corporate
- Mergers, acquisitions and reorgs
- High turnover and fire-fighting
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Story of our Company
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Executive Team
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We advise global leaders on their most critical issues and opportunities.
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