Are you lost in the weeds and can't find the right path for improving your life or the success of your business?
If you answered YES. Then you came to the right place.
My name is Gregory Irwin and I coach individuals and businesses in achieving more positive outcomes by rescripting individual mindsets, creating personal development plans and identifying ways to improve business operations.
MY BACKGROUND
I have spent my entire life observing and analyzing how social, cultural, and environmental influences impact the way people interact with each other and their environment. The knowledge gained from this effort has been instrumental in my success across a wide variety of jobs and industries.
My career started with the U.S. Air Force where I learned the value of proper training, leading by example, and adaptability. My military service was followed by operations and information technology management jobs at Lockheed Martin and Alcoa. While there I was able to significantly impact each company’s financial bottom line by leading my organization in the identification and elimination of wasteful processes as well as the efficient implementation of recent technology.
In the years leading up to 2008, I held various sales, marketing and consulting management positions at Deloitte Consulting, Oracle Corporation, Info-Power International and Signum Group. My responsibilities during that time gave me ample opportunities to increase and refine my skills in enlightening, empowering, and engaging my subordinates, peers, and customers. From 2004 to 2023 I owned and managed a printing and marketing services company. During that time, I leveraged my extensive management expertise in sales, marketing, financial controls, and manufacturing operations to develop and implement innovative solutions that, increased sales, reduced cost, increased productivity and improved employee and customer satisfaction. Managing and growing a small business is rewarding but I found that my true passion is helping people grow and be successful. So, in 2015, I created Transitional Initiatives so I could focus more time on helping individuals and organizations improve the way they think, act, and achieve.
A bachelor’s degree in industrial technology and a master’s degree in operations management have equally contributed to my ability to develop and deliver hundreds of training programs on topics including self-managed work teams, organizational change management, sales effectiveness, cross-functional team dynamics and re-scripting behaviors for success.
Over the years I have coached and mentored many subordinates, peers, and clients. The majority of whom have gone on to be successful leaders in a wide spectrum of careers. My thought leadership coupled with my charisma has produced a career filled with opportunities to be a conference speaker, seminar leader, magazine article contributor, consultant, television guest and advisor to project teams as well as senior corporate executives.
my process
My services are neither industry-specific nor functionally focused; my approach to each engagement can be easily customized to the specific needs of any organization. I use a highly collaborative three-step process that quickly brings all pertinent issues into focus so the best path to achievement can be efficiently plotted and executed.
Step 1 - Discovery
Discovery is designed to allow me to go beyond just presenting problems, to uncovering how the problems are being managed. I use interviews and a physical review of the operation to gain a good perspective of what is working well and not so well. The next step is to create a discovery report.
The recommendations created during this phase represent my professional opinions based on my combined training, skills and experience with making personnel, process and technology improvements across many industries. The recommendations become the basis for creating a proposal with specific tasks that can be executed during the Achievement phases.
Step 2 - Assessment
During this phase, I first focus on what you are doing well. Then, I look at areas where there could be problems. Most of the effort in this step is performing a deep dive into current and/or proposed processes, procedures and financial operations.
In addition to the operations review, I deploy human assessment tools and coaching. I have found that utilizing these tools during this step is necessary for establishing a common language across the organization, which is key to building trust between all participants. Without that trust, relationships cannot be created and the desired results from the achievement step will not be completely realized.
Step 3 - Achievement
The achievement step is all about the personnel. My goal during the achievement phase is to teach and guide the participants through the steps of the plan. I are there with them, but I are not doing the work for them. I am a firm believer that, when the plan is complete, I should not be needed, and the knowledge required to achieve continuous improvement should be embedded in the minds of the participants.
Change and process improvements do not have to be costly and painful. I want to share my perspectives with you and help you make substantial improvements in your performance, identify breakthrough opportunities for growth and gain a competitive advantage over your competitors.
My Services
Operations Improvement
Operations Improvement
Operations Improvement
Operational excellence is a top goal in every organization’s business plan. Management knows that, to achieve it, they must establish an environment that promotes sustainable growth and continuous improvement. There are many obstacles that stand in the way of achieving operational excellence and every organization, regardless of size and complexity, has its share of them. The most common are inefficient or redundant processes, conflicting goals and objectives, disengaged workers and ineffective communications.
I have created key programs that can be used to address the issues listed above, but I have a bigger goal in mind. In addition to helping you find the low-hanging fruit, I want to teach you how to seek out and capitalize on opportunities that don’t currently exist. To find those opportunities, your workforce must be enlightened, empowered and engaged.
I can help your organization lay the groundwork for building a culture of continuous improvement. My core strengths are not only useful in helping you clarify, simplify and streamline your processes, but they can also be used to help you achieve true operational excellence.
Coaching
Operations Improvement
Operations Improvement
Coaching by definition is a method of directing, instructing and training a person or group of people, with the aim to achieve some goal or develop specific skills.
Coaching in a practical sense is a professional relationship that helps individuals, teams and organizations improve both their performance and their satisfaction with their environment.
I provide several types of coaching.
Business
Leadership
Executive
Performance
Team
Life