Margie Hagene |
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Margie is a Lean Transformation professional, with 20 years experience in helping senior managers and operation leaders realize their changed roles and responsibilities and gain appropriate skills for leading in a Lean environment.
For 18 years, Margie worked as a global internal consultant for Ford Motor Company at all levels within the organization - from team leaders to the COO - in Product Development, Design and Manufacturing.
Since exiting Ford, Margie continues working with people in industry (Harley-Davidson Motor Company; Nike, Inc. / Nike IHM; Littelfuse Electronics; Zanini Plastics), as well as with educational institutions (University of Michigan Organizational Learning Virtual Faculty; University of Maryland James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership - Arts, Leadership & Community Group) and not-for-profit organizations (Food Gatherers – America’s Second Harvest hunger relief; Washtenaw Land Trust – Farmland preservation; The Wellness Community - Non-medical cancer services).
Clients invariably learn to appreciate Margie’s ability to quickly assess leadership qualities and identify issues of misalignment among management and disconnects between official policy and actual behaviors. Margie embodies the belief that it is the effective blend of the soft (managerial, organizational, thinking) and hard (technical, system, process) sides in complex systems that determine the sustainable effectiveness of any lean transformation. Margie is a professional educator and is well known to pull no punches when giving direct feedback to executives.
Margie holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Butler University, Indiana (USA), and a Master of Science Degree from Indiana University (USA).