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JOSETTE RUSSELL

Vice President, Operations Practice

Josette worked with Damon at Danaher and they share an obsessive desire to drive real change in the real world to impact real results. Josette specializes in complex and highly analytical situations, including operational turnarounds accomplished via Lean tools and overall operational and financial transformation. Josette has worked for small and large companies, including Danaher, Eaton, Holley Performance Products, and the US Air Force as a civilian engineer.

Josette’s primary expertise is designing and deploying kanban in even the most difficult scenarios. She is the author of Banking on Kanban: Mastering Kanban to Boost Cash Flow, Minimize Inventory, and Maximize Delivery Performance. Josette has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from GMI Engineering & Management Institute (now Kettering University) and a Master of Science in Business from Purdue University.

Josette 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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Josette Russell’s Industry Experience

AGRICULTURAL

HAND TOOLS

HEALTHCARE

AUTOMOTIVE OEM

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

AEROSPACE & DEFENSE

MEDIUM-DUTY TRUCK EQUIPMENT

ENGINEERED-TO-ORDER SYSTEMS

AFTERMARKET EQUIPMENT

HEAVY-DUTY TRUCK EQUIPMENT

INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT

METAL FABRICATION

TEXTILES

& MORE