Don Kieffer

Current

• Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management
• President at Improvement Strategies, LLC

Past

• Sr. VP of Operations at Intermatic
• VP Operational Excellence, General Mananger Powertrain Mfg at Harley-Davidson Motor Co.

Education

• University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
• University of Pittsburgh

Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Don Kieffer’s Summary

Operations and product development executive. Provide executive coaching, training and consulting for enterprise-wide, sustainable, improvement efforts using Toyota thinking applied to western management style. Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School.

Don Kieffer’s Specialties:

Demonstrate (typically 30% improvement or better in) and teach Toyota principles. Executive coaching in organizational wide efforts. Specialize in non-manufacturing areas.

Don Kieffer’s Experience

• Senior Lecturer

  MIT Sloan School of Management

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  November 2008 — Present (9 months)

• President

  Improvement Strategies, LLC

  (Management Consulting industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Demonstrate (typically 30% improvement or better in) and teach Toyota principles. Executive coaching in organizational wide efforts. Specialize in non-manufacturing areas.

• Sr. VP of Operations

  Intermatic

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  September 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 4 months)

• VP Operational Excellence, General Mananger Powertrain Mfg

  Harley-Davidson Motor Co.

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  January 1989 — August 2004 (15 years 8 months)

  Executive leader of Continuous Improvement
  General Manager Powertrain manufacturing facility
  Executive leader of Program Management in Product Development
  Executive leader of Twin Cam 88 powertrain project

Don Kieffer’s Education

• University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

  Executive Program for General Managers 1992

• University of Pittsburgh

  BSEE , Electrical Engineering , 1981 — 1986

Don Kieffer’s Contact Settings

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