Griselda Abousleman

Background

About Griselda Abousleman

Strategic Operations leader with proven success generating multi-million-dollar savings for companies’ bottom-line to facilitate rapid growth. Solid experience leading cross-cultural teams as a transformational leader in the global deployment of continuous improvement and lean principles in 26 countries. Wide exposure across manufacturing, aerospace/defense, HVAC, and commercial consumer goods. Original developer of operational excellence frameworks for Fortune 500 companies, Honeywell, Ingersoll Rand, Trane, and L3Harris Technologies. The only one that has done it at 4 different multinational companies and in multiple workstreams (customers, suppliers, multinational companies, & service providers). Proficient in driving a continuous improvement culture and improving business performance across the enterprise by leveraging my Lean Master and Six Sigma certifications. Achieved success in 3 joint venture start-ups, 8 greenfield/brownfield lean site designs, and 16 successful site/product transitions yielding $1.1M-$12M in OI savings. Servant leader who led 3 business units with $550M in revenue to 50%-100% improved metric performance and earned prestigious company awards for all three businesses. Set continuous improvement vision and strategy for 3 Fortune 500 companies that led to $10M-$500M in OI savings. Advanced proficiency in how growth is planned and accomplished with over 25 due diligence studies and 2 successful merger and acquisition projects completed. Large corporate experience in growing the company’s revenues and profits. Top strength is engaging people in transformational change to achieve breakthrough performance with a common vision.