Sam Yankelevitch

CEO

Broomfield, Colorado, United States42 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 30 years of experience in organizational capability building.
  • TEDx speaker focusing on transformative leadership.
  • Trained over 1 million global learners in problem-solving.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Lean Operations and Organizational Development expert with a focus on continuous improvement.

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Inventory AccuracyLean ManufacturingLanguages: SpanishGermanFrenchCoaching and mentoring associatesRoot cause analysisManufacturingSupply ChainPPAPBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness StrategyAutomotiveJITPoka Yoke

About

✅I don't solve your problems. I teach your team how to solve them to build organizational capability. ✅ Fractional leader developing problem solvers and reconnecting silos. Late deliveries? Lost Inventory? People leaving? Most advisors keep you dependent on them, but my job is to make myself unnecessary. Perhaps your organizations don't have a process problem. You may have a thinking problem. When your teams don't know how to surface issues, communicate across silos, or solve problems without escalating everything up, the gap might be in your people's capability, and connection to each other. ‼️And it often lies in your daily work practices: how you communicate, your meetings, how you solve problems, make decisions and onboard people. 👉As a trusted advisor, trainer or fractional leader, that's where I come in. For over 30 years I've worked side by side with organizations to build something that actually lasts: teams that think clearly, communicate honestly, and keep getting better long after I'm gone. 👉 Lean Thinking, Beyond the Factory Floor Most people hear "lean" and picture a manufacturing plant. I've spent decades proving it's something far bigger than that. ✅Lean thinking is a human operating system, It’s a disciplined way of surfacing problems, stating them clearly, eliminating what doesn't add value, and building systems where communication and execution flow without interruption. ✅I apply Lean and quality principles to reduce wasted time and talent in meetings, improve communication, align vertical and horizontal teams to reduce silos and improve cross-functional efficiency. These are factors that will drive operational excellence in your projects, operations and supply chains, as well as in your efforts to take part in environmental sustainability. ✅Ultimately, your daily work practices will create a culture of true Kaizen, toward continuous improvement. Ask me how. PS: Every Lean quality principle I will show you how to practice is founded on the basis of trust, respect and psychological safety, so that you engage people who feel they matter, commit and get things done right the first time.

Experience

42 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
8 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
12 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Ems-eftec group

Advisor to VP for turnaround

Feb 2025Apr 2025 · 2 mos · Taylor, Michigan, United States · On-site

Ted conferences

TEDx Speaker

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · On-site

  • 👉 Leadership Starts From the Inside Out
  • It begins with inner work.
  • My TEDx talk explores a leadership idea that before you can build a better organization, you have to confront the voice inside your own head first.
  • The stories leaders tell themselves about failure, about worth, about who gets to have good ideas — those stories become the culture.
  • ✅A leader who hasn't examined their own inner voice will unconsciously build an organization in its image.
  • Change the inner voice. Change how you show up. Change what's possible for everyone around you.
  • This is where real transformation begins.

Nemak

Advisory to Plant VP- Trainer - Part of the Semoto Team

Aug 2022Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

Gkn aerospace

Opex Director (interim) GKN Aerospace Aircraft Repair

Jul 2021Dec 2021 · 5 mos · El Cajon, California, United States

Sundyne

2 roles

M&A transition team

Jan 2020Apr 2020 · 3 mos

General manager- HMD Kontro - Sealless Pumps

Aug 2019Jan 2020 · 5 mos

  • M&A advisory and support.

E learning linkedin company page

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

Sep 2018Present · 7 yrs 8 mos · United States · Hybrid

  • 🙏Over 1 million Global Learners
  • https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/sam-yankelevitch
  • ✅Problem Solving, ✅Communication, ✅International Projects, ✅Organizational Culture, ✅Environmental Sustainability, ✅Psychological Safety, ✅Effective Meetings.

Operational excellence society

Member Advisory Board

Sep 2016Present · 9 yrs 8 mos

Appalachian state university

Member Supply Chain Advisory Board

Jan 2016Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

Bmw manufacturing co., llc

Advisory to Director and Tier 1 Training- Intercultural Communication Alignment

Jul 2015Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States · On-site

  • Advisory to North America Supplier Director on alignment of Ter 1 supplier with BMW new program launches: X3, X5, X 6.
  • Designed and led over 25 workshops on intercultural communication.

Samyankelevitch.com

President and CEO

Sep 2013Present · 12 yrs 8 mos · Denver Metropolitan Area · On-site

  • Developing problem-solvers at every level
  • engaging everyone and preventing
  • same problems from coming back.
  • Website: http://samyankelevitch.com

Prettl electric corp

VP and General Manager

Apr 2002Mar 2013 · 10 yrs 11 mos · Greenville, SC

  • Global German Automotive supplier
  • Transformation from batch to flow with high-mix variety.

World office products

President and CEO

Jan 1993Jan 2000 · 7 yrs · On-site

  • Start up founder.
  • Importer and master distributor of office furniture
  • Supply chain: Italy, China, Philippines

Industrias de acero- ideace

President and CEO

Jan 1981Jan 2000 · 19 yrs · On-site

  • Transformation from batch to continuous flow.

Education

The University of Texas at Arlington

BSIE

Jan 1978Jan 1981

Walking the Invisible Gemba - School of Experience

Learner — Life and Hidden Sources of Problems

Jul 1981Dec 2022

Universidad EAFIT

Exec MBA finance — Finance

Jan 1982Jan 1984

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