I was born in Barcelona the year Queen released their first album and Agostini won his 13th world title with MV Augusta.
I studied telecommunications engineering because at that time I already had a taste for challenges and that degree was known to be one of the most difficult. It really was!
I started my professional life combining university studies by working as a teacher of networking and internet courses and, without any doubt, this conditioned my professional future. I loved being in direct contact with people and traveling more than to settle for “conventional” jobs. I was much clearer about what I didn’t want to do than what I wanted to do, and that’s how my period of “professional experimentation” began. I worked in 8 different companies in 4 years, in very different fields. I have learned a lot from my constant changes, although perhaps the most important of all is that I like changes because they require an effort to adapt to the new situation, but above all, they require learning.
In my thirties, I finally found my vocation by discovering the philosophy and tools of Lean Manufacturing. I was fascinated by the industrial world: it was exciting to discover the manufacturing process of things as diverse as a yogurt, a bottle cap or a train, and even more to see that these processes could be improved with simple tools and principles as logical as, sometimes, non-existent.
So I started to apply Lean as an external consultant, working for large groups as well as for SMEs in countries with different cultures. I put my suitcase down for a few years as a Lean Manager in an Alstom factory before resuming my globe-trotting life from the group’s French headquarters, within the support team of its factories around the world.
After reaching forty years, I decided it was time for more changes, to try new things: it was time to take risks and start a business. And this is how Safety Lean Consulting was born in 2015, from the hand of two people who wanted to pass on their passion.
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