South East Lean Network (SELN) – Creating opportunities and adding value

Join the South East Lean Network (SELN) for an in person talk in Red Hat Waterford, where Ian Gourlay takes us on a CI journey through 5 decades from his time working with Toyota in the UK in the 1980’s, through to the present day here in Ireland applying Lean principles in the healthcare and service sectors. This event will be broadcast on Zoom as well.

Ian Gourlay is the founder of BP Solutions and has over 30 years deep and extensive experience in
co-designing, co-developing, and delivering bespoke Lean and continuous improvement courses and
activities within a variety of organisations and sectors from micro companies with 1-10 employees to
multi nationals enabling them to be more self-sufficient on their innovation and improvement
journeys.
A trusted and expert partner, he has worked with service sector clients including telecoms, utilities,
public sector and automotive as well as many leading hospitals here in Ireland and 7 of the top 20
hospitals in the US with the flagship being the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Ian holds a Masters in Lean (Honours) with Lean Black Belt; Higher Diploma (Honours) in Business in
Management; BS5750/ISO9001 in Quality Management; Six Sigma Green Belt; and he is a long-
standing Lean Service Provider with Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland

This event is organised in partnership with Waterford Chamber Skillnet: https://waterfordskillnet.ie/