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BEN BERRIDGE

Director, Operations Practice

Ben is a seasoned Lean leader with more than 25 years of experience delivering cultural transformation and measurable performance improvement across global organizations. With over 400 Kaizen events facilitated throughout his career, he is widely respected for his calm, collaborative leadership style and his unwavering commitment to developing people and building sustainable Lean capability at every level of the business.


As a Director within the Danaher Business System, Ben led major site transformations and enterprise-wide Lean deployments, playing a pivotal role in introducing DBS to newly acquired companies across Ireland, France, Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK. Serving as the primary on-site mentor, he partnered closely with executive and functional leaders to implement Lean Conversion, Standard Work, Daily Management, Policy Deployment, and Problem Solving across operations, distribution, supply chain, commercial, and transactional processes.

Ben has held key leadership roles at Cytiva, Linx, and Collins & Aikman, where he had the unique opportunity to learn directly from early practitioners of the Toyota Production System. Having experienced multiple large-scale Lean transformations firsthand, he brings a practical, people-centered approach grounded in real-world application, not theory.


His Lean journey began in operations and has since expanded into deep expertise in transactional and commercial environments, with specialized capability in guiding leadership teams through Hoshin Kanri and enterprise strategy deployment.


Ben holds a BSc in Integrated Technologies from Sheffield University in the UK.

Ben Berridge’s Industry Experience

Dental

Assembly

Machining

Distribution

Warehousing

Automotive Tier 1

Metal Fabrication

Industrial Printing

Injection Moulding

Life Sciences

Tool Making

Diagnostics

Extrusion

& More