About SPI

BuiltWithNOF

Our Vision

Our vision is a world in which:

  • Companies, society, and the earth work together harmoniously and profitably,
  • People live rich, full lives, and
  • We leave a legacy which enables our children and their children to have rich, full lives. 

We have fully committed ourselves to do everything that we can to help this vision become a reality. 

 

Our Experience

Gary Langenwalter. Gary has consulted with more than 100 clients, ranging in size from 10 employees to the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy. His passion is helping clients implement Sustainability successfully. 

He is an international authority on Sustainability, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Accounting and Costing, ERP, Leadership, and Organization Change.  If a client is using Lean, he helps them capitalize on that investment. 
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Gary is a prolific writer of professional courses for the AMA and the American Institute of CPAs (including a new one on Sustainability), plus several business books. His latest book, The Squeeze, is a top selling business novel on sustainability. He is in demand worldwide as a speaker on Sustainability and Lean. He has held the positions as consulting manager with Coopers & Lybrand and KPMG Peat Marwick, and as MIS Manager for Faultless Caster Corporation.

Gary is committed to sustainability as a way of operating every organization and as a way of life.  He is pastor of the Dundee (Oregon) United Methodist Church. He earned his BA in management from the University of Oregon, his MBA in management from Michigan State, and his MTS degree in Leadership from Boston University. He also earned a degree in International Management from Nyenrode Business Universiteit in The Netherlands. He is certified as a Fellow in Production and Inventory Management, and in Integrated Resources Management by APICS, the Operations Management Association. 

Ian Young. Ian is a highly regarded manufacturing industry educator with over 20 years experience working in a range of enterprise development and manufacturing capability improvement roles. He has led the implementation of significant manufacturing excellence initiatives with a wide range of Australian manufacturers.

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With a background ranging from trade qualifications and engineering degree, to post graduate and adult learning qualifications, Ian combines a practical and academic approach to learning. 

 Ian has developed and facilitated a range of in-house manufacturing excellence programs.  As founder of the South Australian Centre for Manufacturing’s™ College, he created a range of enterprise improvement programs in a public self-help™ workshop format.

 Ian has been a board member and Vice President of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Australia region.

Jahn Ballard. Jahn has developed a breakthrough approach to integrating operational decisions with a company’s financial and operational metrics. He is the founding director of Performance Management Institute, Inc. (PMI), which applies Integral Operations Finance and Accounting Practices ™ and tools, plus Whole System Organization Design to creating an "In-House MBA" for senior and operations level leadership teams. His primary work supports CEOs in distinguishing and leveraging tacit knowledge so they can create their perfect job, free of overwhelm, and delegate execution more effectively to their people.
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Jahn is creator of the Financial Dashboard, an at-a-glance financial reporting tool, which offers transparency of financial statement results using three bottom line metrics. The metrics are presented in the form of a fuel gauge, a tachometer and a speedometer. Jahn has trained nearly 1,000 CFO’s, Controllers and CPAs in over a dozen state CPA societies in the use of these tools.

Current and past clients include: Dana Corporation, Natural Logic, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, Rapid Refill, Inc., ZAP! Motors, Mary’s Pizza Shack, Adobe, Nike, Digital Sound, over a dozen state CPA Societies, City of Pasadena, Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, Teledyne Systems, and the City of Los Angeles - Mayor’s Office.

Jahn has over two decades of experience doing business development, collaborative leadership development, and facilitating strategic decision-making processes for businesses, communities, and non-profits. His passion is creating working and learning environments where everyone can contribute their talents by building shared language, images, and real-time co-written plans between different specialties and disciplines through all the reporting levels.

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