Brian Swain

Background

About Brian Swain

Brian Swain is an organisational development consultant with twenty five years experience working in Construction Manufacturing and Service companies throughout the UK and Western Europe. He has specialised, for the past 15 years, in Lean Construction. He often typifies his approach as individual, organisational and corporate coaching. Brian’s work is focused on the Lean Transformation of companies through team building and personal development within the context of process management, continuous improvement and organisational design. He works at all levels in large and small organisations but with a primary focus on Value Stream Development in regard to a company’s strategic and operational imperatives. Typically he works and consults on long-term (1-3 years) change processes within his client companies. He has built an impressive client list over the years and has been continuously working with some clients for 15 years. Some of his recent and current work includes: Construction: Mace Group, Network Rail, Carillion Media Hub Olympic Park, Vince Construction UK, Carillion Plc, Skanska Civil Engineering, Highways Agency, Lakesmere, Anglian Water, Mott MacDonald. Manufacturing: Johnson Controls Power, Corus (Tata) Steel, Marshalls Plc, Pilkington Tile, GlaxoSmithKline, Denne Joinery, Black and Decker and Hathaway Roofing. Service: Hertz, General Electric (GE), Saxon Weald Housing Association, Axa Sun Life. Over time Brian has built working relationships with many intelligent, capable, experienced and like-minded individuals, Lean practitioners and thinkers. These include Prof. Jeff Liker, with whom he is further developing and scheduling ‘Toyota Way’ leadership programmes, Prof. Daniel T Jones and Arthur Zajonc. Additionally, Brian has Project Managed and co-authored textbooks and manuals for work-based management development. Brian is a founding Director of The Lean Construction Institute UK (LCI-UK).