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WILLIAM IRWIN

Senior Vice President, Executive Advisor

William is a Senior Vice President in the Lean Focus Growth and Innovation Practice. He has used lean principles for over 20 years to lead transformative innovation, complex product portfolios, and commercial growth initiatives across a wide array of industries and company sizes. William has achieved significant results in strategy creation, new product development roadmaps, manufacturing footprint and portfolio rationalization, sales team transformation, eCommerce capability expansion, and distribution and GTM strategy creation and execution through various Business Unit Leadership, Executive Leadership, and P&L ownership roles at companies such as Danaher, Envista, Honeywell, and PE-backed manufacturing businesses. William also served six years in the Navy as a Submarine Officer.

William is trained in lean business operating systems and leadership from the companies above. He has a deep understanding of how to apply lean tools in complex cross-functional environments to strengthen relationships and cultivate a Growth Mindset that unifies growth and innovation teams around a common goal. As a BU leader at Danaher, he drove strategy, innovation, product/technology road mapping, and project execution for a complex global product portfolio redesign using Danaher’s core Innovation, UX, VOC, and agile product development processes. At Envista, he led a value creation effort that delivered significant margin improvement across a large product portfolio in preparation for a carve-out process. As a GM at Honeywell, William drove a major manufacturing footprint reduction and SKU rationalization effort using classic 80/20 principles to simplify a complex portfolio and global supply chain while delivering over 200 bps of OMX improvement. In a PE-backed building products manufacturing business, William used the tools and processes from his training to reorganize the commercial team and execute a strategic plan that ultimately resulted in 15–20% YoY growth in a severely negative market environment.


William holds a BS in English and Spanish from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA in General Management from the Darden School of Business at UVA.

William Irwin’s Industry Experience

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