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CHRIS O’TOOLE

Vice President, Operations Practice

Chris is an operations executive and Lean transformation leader with 30 years of experience strengthening industrial operations and global supply chains. He brings hands-on leadership in business turnarounds, acquisition integration, and multisite transformation, including P&L responsibility within private equity portfolio companies.


His experience includes global supply chain leadership at Bio-Techne and senior operations roles at PLZ, Abrasive Form, and Veritas Steel. At PLZ, Chris aligned 13 plants around common operating standards and Daily Management, helping reduce unit costs by 20% in nine months. His approach connects operational discipline with measurable business results while building the leadership capability needed to sustain them.

Earlier in his career, Chris served as Manager, Danaher Business System and Quality at Videojet Technologies and as Global Director of the Rexnord Business System. He connects Strategy Deployment with daily execution, personally facilitates kaizen, and coaches executives and frontline leaders to solve problems, improve performance, and take ownership of continuous improvement.

Chris is part of our Operations Practice where we know that when operations are designed to flow, performance stabilizes naturally.

Lean Focus builds the systems and daily disciplines that eliminate firefighting and turn execution across safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and productivity, into a lasting competitive advantage.


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Chris O’Toole’s Industry Experience

Distribution

Steel Fabrication

Power Generation

Specialty Chemicals

Industrial Manufacturing

Thermal Processing

Life Sciences

Aerospace

Defense

& More