Dr. T. Wiles Fowler, MBB, ENFJ

CEO

Cleveland, Ohio, United States40 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.
  • Proven track record in healthcare innovation and process improvement.
  • Strong leadership in organizational design and change management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare Operations Improvement Expert with a focus on Lean methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Change ManagementLeadership DevelopmentNegotiationManagementStrategic PlanningBusiness Process Improvement

Other Skills

AnalysisStrategyStrategic CommunicationsCreative WritingResearch SkillsMarketing StrategyPublic SpeakingTrainingAutomotiveKaizenOrganizational DevelopmentLogisticsQuality AssuranceManagement ConsultingCross-functional Team Leadership

About

Leading the charge in healthcare innovation, my role as Continuous Improvement Director at Cleveland Clinic (DGNI Sr. Exec. Advisor) capitalizes on my expertise in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. With a solid track record in organizational design, I've become synonymous with implementing strategies that yield better, cheaper, and faster healthcare outcomes. Our team has achieved significant milestones by embracing emotional intelligence and advanced problem-solving methods. Notably, the integration of Lean principles within the clinic's operational framework has fostered a culture of continuous improvement. My mission is to forge ahead with system-wide enhancements that promise a future of optimized patient care.

Experience

40 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Cleveland clinic

Continuous Improvement, Cleveland Clinic, Diagnostic Institute.

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Greater Cleveland · On-site

  • Lead and Support Caregiver Process and System Improvements
AnalysisChange ManagementStrategyStrategic CommunicationsLeadership Development

Defense logistics agency

DLA - Operations Director - Optimize Consulting

Jan 2018Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Fort Belvoir, Virginia

  • We drive Organizational Optimization (OO). It is the process to improve systems performance by eliminating sub-optimization. Sub-optimization is a business constraint that limits an organization's ability to utilize resources effectively and efficiently.
Negotiation

U.s. department of state

State Dept: CPS Lead - Monitoring and Evaluation (ECOWAS)

Apr 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Abuja, Nigeria · On-site

  • Project Goal: Build the ECOWAS Early Warning Directorate (EWD) capability and capacity to enhance the West African capacity to more quickly identity, respond to, and stem developing crises. It will also support ECOWAS’s ongoing efforts to improve regional and create national-level crisis reporting and response mechanisms in West Africa.
Negotiation

Cps professional services

Holistic Master Black Belt

Sep 2011Jan 2018 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Federal Aviation Administration

  • Enterprise transformation leader of change management strategies and integration in a government client organization that quickly grew four-fold to over 1500 people. Facilitating lean construction project management, datification techniques, cross-functional leadership and operational excellence. Big picture thinker. Mentoring senior executives in organizing for positive and sustainable culture change and reducing cycle time in construction projects.

United states army

USFOR-Afghanistan Support for CPS

Sep 2011Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Kabul, Afghanistan · On-site

  • Continuous Performance Improvement. Assisting the US Army (and allies) with the strategic planning and logistics execution of the war drawdown including "retrograde" and reset.
Negotiation

Mpw industrial services

GM

Mar 2011Sep 2011 · 6 mos · Cleveland, OH and Detroit MI

  • MPW Container Management Group cleans and manages containers used to transport every type of automotive, industrial and architectural coating, plus a variety of other materials including enamels, resins, adhesives and industrial paints. MPW also has mobile wash capabilities to reduce your transportation costs. All containers meet or exceed the strict cleanliness standards required by the automotive industry.
ManagementStrategic Planning

Businessleadership.com

CEO

Jan 2010Sep 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos · Email: timothyfowler@aol.com

  • According to an exhaustive IBM study, "“For CEOs, creativity is now the most important leadership quality for success in business, outweighing even integrity and global thinking according to a new study by IBM. The study is the largest known sample of one-on-one CEO interviews, with over 1,500 corporate heads and public sector leaders across 60 nations and 33 industries polled on what drives them in managing their companies in today’s world.”
  • We help executives find, partner with and utilize their Right Brain dominant employees and teach left-brain-skilled workers how to be more holistic problem solvers.
ManagementStrategic Planning

Dynamics research corp/defense industry

LSS Senior Manager/Lean Master serving Missile Defense Agency

Jan 2006Dec 2010 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area · Hybrid

  • Mr. Fowler has spoken at a number of conferences. His delivery brings a clever wit that audiences enjoy. He was a featured speaker at the 2007 Defense Manufacturing Conference on the great work that Energy Support Center is doing with process improvement. And partnered in numerous lean workshops at the 2008 and 2010 DMC for his work at Lockheed Martin’s and Boeing’s supplier Eaglepicher, and the Missile Defense Agency’s Test and Evaluation Strategy, utilizing DMAIC in the development of the agencies ‘Web Construct’, which tracks the kill vehicle in aggressor missile launches. Also, to note, he was the first Certified Lean Master at the Ford Motor Company where he lead quarterly workshops for the plant-level FPS (Ford Production System) Coordinators.
Business Process Improvement

Defense logistics agency

Continuous Process Improvement Practitioner

Jan 2006Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · HQ's

  • Launched/Initiated the Defense Logistics Agency's Lean Six Sigma (CPI) Program in 2006. Recognized by the Office of the Secretary of Defense as a model "process improvement" project, with the CAC Card Cycle Time Reduction effort. Results included Issuance time reduction from 30 days to 2 days. Reduced Emergency Fuel buys from 19 to 3 days.
Business Process Improvement

Ford motor company

Lean Manufacturing Specialty Manager

May 1995Jan 2006 · 10 yrs 8 mos · Detroit Metropolitan Area · On-site

  • Assisted Strategic deployment of Hoshin Kanri (Policy Deployment) for all Vehicle Operations (48 Plants)
  • Designed the Organizational Structure for all Ford Motor Company Plants Worldwide. (Horizontal/Vertical Org.)
  • Delivered multiple Kaizens in Stamping, Power Train, Body, Paint and Final Assembly operations.
  • Assisted and sat on the Corporate Organization Excellence Committee.
  • One of three designers of Ford’s Global SQDCME Metric Balanced Scorecard (still in use for over 8 years).
  • Facilitated cross-division alignment along the value stream enterprise/Managed a 15-member consultant team.
Business Process Improvement

Our lady of the wayside

Director of Staff Development

Jun 1990May 1995 · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • Designed / delivered employee development program and assistance and conducted new employee orientation and OJT training. Provided public affairs assistance as well.

Central dupage hospital

Psychiatric Counselor (Social Work)

Jan 1989Jul 1990 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Lead Group Therapy for youth with mental health issues

Visual resume

Visual Resume

Jul 1986Sep 2021 · 35 yrs 2 mos

  • See attached a visual resume

Youth for tomorrow

Director of Residential Services

Jan 1986Feb 1988 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Founding Director for Super Bowl Champion/Washington Redskins Coach Joe Gibbs' Youth Home in VA. Hired the staff and set up the program intervention strategy.

Education

Regent University

Doctorate of Strategic Leadership — Healthcare

Aug 2023Jan 2026

York University - Nebraska

Master of Arts - MA — International & Organizational Leadership

Jan 2021Apr 2023

University of Kentucky

Masters Cert. — Lean Master

Jan 2000Jan 2001

Washington Bible College

BA — Education

Jan 1980Jan 1984

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