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SLOBODAN DJUKIC

Vice President, Operations Practice

Slobodan serves as a senior leader in the Lean Focus Operations Practice, bringing more than 25 years of executive experience driving operational transformation, turnaround, and profit expansion across complex manufacturing environments. His career spans progressive leadership roles—including Supervisor, Director, Vice President, General Manager, and Chief Operating Officer—where he has led enterprise-wide lean transformations, organizational redesigns, and strategic growth initiatives.


Slobodan is recognized as a catalyst for change, combining strategic planning and strategy deployment with hands-on daily management to deliver measurable business results. He has successfully led multiple organizations through turnarounds, acquisitions, and post-acquisition integrations by building high-performance cultures grounded in problem solving, accountability, and continuous improvement. His leadership approach emphasizes time at the gemba, coaching leaders and teams to own performance and drive sustainable improvement.

Throughout his career, Slobodan has implemented enterprise Lean Business Systems across multi-site organizations, improving flow, operational performance, and financial outcomes. His experience includes driving significant improvements in on-time delivery, EBITDA, operating profit, and working capital through Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, Visual Management, and tiered Daily Management systems. He has also led major organizational restructurings, plant consolidations, and cultural transformations to align talent, strategy, and operational execution.


Earlier in his career, Slobodan held roles in Quality, Program Management, Product Development, and Operations within aerospace and defense manufacturing environments, where he built deep expertise in operational excellence and disciplined execution.


Slobodan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Arizona State University.

Slobodan Djukic’s Industry Experience

Automotive

Aerospace & Defense

Food Processing Equipment

Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing

Make-to-Order Manufacturing

Precision Machining

Capital Equipment

& MORE