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Paul Henry – Director of Lean at Venturehaus and market renowned Lean advisor

Paul is a Director of Venturehaus, and former Quality Leader at GE Capital and GE Life, and a recognised expert in the strategic deployment of Lean in financial services. Paul has successfully deployed Lean in multiple financial and other services environments across both front and back offices and is the principal architect of Venturehaus’ own approach to Lean in Services.

He has taken the lead in over 150 successful Lean interventions generating benefits in excess of £200million and has personally trained and coached over 200 Lean Experts. Prior to joining Venturehaus in 2005, Paul was a Lean Leader at GE Life and GE Commercial Finance, where he was responsible for the strategy, planning and roll-out of Lean across Europe and his work was instrumental in the integration into GE’s Lean Sigma initiative. At GE, Paul was recognised globally for the successful launch of Lean into the company’s financial services businesses.

Before joining GE, Paul had demonstrated a track record in Change Management, Six Sigma and Business Process Re-Engineering in the Aerospace industry where, for instance, he was Head of the Pan-European Continuous Improvement Programme at FLS. He has 20 years of management experience in both Sales and Operational roles and has considerable leadership experience from his time as a commissioned officer in the RAF. Paul has an honours degree from Portsmouth University.

Paul has been involved in almost all of Venturehaus’ Lean engagements, and has also trained Lean experts at 2 major global consultancy firms. He has recently led Lean deployments in AEGON Scottish Equitable, Barclays, CIT, ABN AMRO and Department for Work and Pensions (the largest Lean deployment to date in Europe), and has also run Lean engagements at Bear Stearns, Beckett Investment Management, Capital One, Just Retirement, Barclaycard, and Standard Life.

Specialist Sectors:
Commercial & Equipment Finance, Insurance, Pensions Administration

Specialist Areas:
Operational Transformation, Lean & Six Sigma Deployment Strategy and Planning, Programme Design, Operational Strategy, Business Process Improvement, Leadership & Change Management

Recent Authorship:

Capital Gains: Lean in the Financial Services Sector

Paul has been a speaker at many Lean specific conferences; most recently he joined Dan Jones on stage at the Fujitsu Annual Executive Discussion Evening.




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