Rebecca A. Morgan, President of Fulcrum ConsultingWorks
Inc., is an operations strategy consultant skilled
at clarifying complex ideas, finding creative
solutions to problems, and developing and leveraging
operational strengths. She works with manufacturers
to develop and execute an operations strategy
— one that leverages their resources to deliver
profitable competitive advantage to their markets.
Morgan grew up in Kansas and Oklahoma, and subsequently
has lived and worked in Delaware, Maryland, North
Carolina and Ohio. She graduated with honors from
Wichita State University with a BS in Economics,
and graduated from Oklahoma State University with
a MS Economics and a 4.0 GPA.
Morgan worked for Perdue Foods (yes, the chicken
company!), Cleveland Trust (a bank since absorbed
into Key Bank), Stouffer Foods ( think Macaroni
and Cheese), TRW and Precision CastParts (high
tech airplane parts for both) before founding
her operations consulting business in 1990. Consulting
clients include widely recognizable names like
Avery-Dennison and Moen, and numerous smaller
manufacturers like Ashtabula Rubber, Zircoa, and
Kinetico.
She is Board Approved in Operations Management
by the Society for Advancement of Consulting and
is certified as Fellow by The Association for
Operations Management (APICS). She is also one
of the few authorized facilitators to deliver
the joint AME/SME/Shingo Lean Certification Review
Program.
She contributes generously of her time to professional
organizations, including current leadership responsibilities
with The Association for Operations Management
(APICS), the Association for Manufacturing Excellence
(AME) and the Entrepreneurs Association. She is
also an active member of other professional associations.
Highly respected business journal INC Magazine
selected Morgan as its Operations Expert, a role
she has fulfilled for several years. In addition,
her expertise has been tapped by numerous other
well known national and industry publications,
including Fortune Magazine, Business Week, Dow-Jones
Newswires, and Industry Week, on topics ranging
from Lean Manufacturing to Steel Tariffs to B2B
relationships.
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