1. What is Lean Partners?
Lean Partners is a management consulting firm that improves business
performance by creating a continuous improvement culture for
small-to-medium sized businesses. We work together with our Private Equity
partners to create well-defined strategies that will be accepted by both
leadership and staff to improve organizational performance and create
organizations based on sustainable improvement principles.
Why Lean Partners?
Our approach is best in the industry and includes leadership development,
team development, improvement coaching, process improvement, and
strategic planning. Lean Partners is the ultimate results-oriented consulting
firm that develops organizations where continuous improvement tools like
Lean and Six Sigma thrive.
There are many competitive advantages of implementing
Lean.
• Simultaneously grow sales while increasing capacity
with existing labor, overhead and capital.
• Reduce lead-times
• Increase quality
• Free up capital from inventory reduction
Annual Sales Growth
Sales
Materials
Labor
Gross Margin
Overhead
SG&A
EBIT
REVENUE % OF SALES
40,000,000
26,520,000
1,720,000
11,760,000
1,240,000
5,120,000
100.00%
66.30%
4.30%
29.40%
3.10%
12.80%
5,400,000 13.50%
YEAR 1
48,000,000
31,824,000
1,788,800
14,387,600
1,289,600
5,324,800
7,772,800
YEAR 2
57,600,000
1,860,352
17,550,848
1,341,184
5,537,792
10,671,872
13.50%
YEAR 3
69,120,000
45,826,560
1,934,766
21,358,674
1,394,831
5,759,304
14,204,539
Mission
Potential Results from Continuous Improvement
$2,372,800EBIT Improvement vs. Baseline Year
EBIT Improvement (Factor vd. Baseline)
$5,271,872 $8,804,539
1.5 2.0 2.7
20% 4% Annual Labor, OH SGA Increase

2. Whether you need a fractional Chief Improvement Officer (CIO), a more hands-on improvement facilitator, or something in
between, Lean Partners is well-known for developing highly effective strategic partnerships with our clients to deliver
lasting results.
Our Approach
Every successful journey needs a map, and at Lean Partners we start by creating a future state outline with strategies
needed to reach your ultimate business goals. To influence change, we not only use the right tools, but we create high
performing leadership teams, master level change agents and create an environment where all levels of the organization
thrive. By applying breakthrough methodologies we build not only a foundation of learning, but one of success.
Solutions
Leadership Development
Team Development
Strategic Planning
Process Improvement
Executive Coaching
Fractional Chief Improvement Officer
Right leaders in the right seats with the
right mindset, knowledge and tools.
The endless pursuit of perfection in every
process within the business for ongoing
scalability and sustainability.
High levels of trust, credibility and respect
across the team with healthy conflict and a
focus on results.
Modeling the way beyond “We don’t know what we
don’t know”.connection. .
A practical plan aligned with the organization's
vision that is executed on a daily basis to
achieve breakthrough results.
Leading your organization in strategies
from strategic to tactical with the goal of
improving the business
How it works
If this sounds interesting to you, we invite you to take the next step. By engaging Lean Partners, Private Equity firms will
get an evaluation of their clients current organization, strengths and weaknesses, target market evaluation and
opportunities for growth.
We will create a future state plan to increase capacity at approximately the rate of sales growth, complete with key
metrics. Through aligning the leadership team with the implementation plan we will ensure all members understand their
role and how to execute at every level. Lean Partners provides the necessary coaching at all levels of the organization to
keep strategies on track, monitor the progress and make adjustments, so the greatest success can be realized.
How to get started
Shannon Carver
scarver@leanpartners.com
817-948-4060
leanpartners.com