Gary D. Stewart

Gary Stewart is a 22 year veteran of executive learning and development in the Toyota group.

Gary acquired his vast Lean knowledge under the tutelage of a Master TPS Sensei while working in Denso - a Toyota group Company - for 11 years.
Because of the circumstances at the time he learned the original 'tough" Toyota version of TPS and Lean in the turnaround and transformation of a Toyota business that was failing.
In effect, having to re-start the whole process of TPS and Lean again from scratch - thereby learning the full secrets of proper implementation at the three discrete operational levels from Toyota along the way.

Later this included a Lean transformation of a sales & engineering organisation, and a Lean reorganisation of the total corporate Denso group which is where he was exposed to the high level thinking of the Toyota Executive Leadership mindset which is the "real secret" factor that drives Toyota's unique global success.

Gary then spent 5 years with a local company transforming the business and more recently at a Greenfield Manufacturing transformation for another Toyota Group company.

He is a frequent speaker in Australia and overseas at conferences covering automotive, manufacturing, (via AME & Lean.org) pharmaceutical, sales and banking.

Even today, after 22 years of learning, Gary remains a serious student of the Toyota Way of business leadership.

Gary will show what businesses must do if they want to take the "high road" to a "new manufacturing world", and how to emulate the spectacular success of Toyota within their own businesses, with special emphasis on understanding the role of the "high level Executive mindset" that is responsible for the type of leadership of innovation and human development that is the direct cause of Toyota's global business success