Tony Barnes:
"Management must wake up!"
| Name | Tony Barnes |
| Presentation title | The Best Way to PREDICT the "Future" is to "Invent" it |
| Publications | Kaizen Strategies for Successful Leadership (Pitmans) |
| Expertise | Kaizen - continuous improvement, leadership, motivation, customer service, innovation, change management |
| Experience | Tony is known as a mentor/coach who assists companies to achieve excellence through continuous improvement. His audience embark on a journey of discovery to uncover the most successful practices and the best ideas from the world's leading global players. |
Tony Barnes began his career as a member of the ‘Deming’ team in Japan during the most turbulent and formative years of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. He experienced at first hand the application of new holistic management practices that produced the Japanese post-war economic miracle. Tony came to understand that this remarkable achievement was made through an insistence on the highest standards of quality and customer service, a totally committed workforce and the practise of Kaizen, or continuous improvement.
Since then he has travelled the world learning from companies that are considered to be at the leading edge in their field. He started his own company The New Beginning Ltd to work with companies looking to radically improve their performance. He doesn’t like to be called a consultant, but rather a mentor or coach enabling companies to set up their own internal systems for continuous improvement.
Today he is also a much sought after International speaker. He is a regular guest of the TEC in the UDA where he speaks to groups of Chief Executives on leadership, change management and continuous improvement. He runs the Dynamic Leadership course at the Institute of Directors in London and is retained as an advisor be several leading companies in the UK and USA.
Tony’s presentations are not just for management however; he has the ability to motivate and enthuse whole workforces or groups of employees. And because his philosophies match the mission of the UK’s Investor in People programme, he is often asked to address IIP conferences or to work with companies about to embark on the programme.
He has given keynote speeches at the Ideas UK annual conference, at the ICCA annual conferences in Tokyo and Lisbon, at SITE in Brussells and in-house to Hydro Aluminim, Taywood Homes, the Bank of England Printing Works amd BT. In addition he is aregular speaker at Business Link events for SMEs
Endorsements
"Tony Barnes – probably the best speaker I have ever heard"
" Quite Outstanding"
" I came away with a great sense of excitement"
Comments following presentation at BT Sector Conference
"Thank you for your presentation…it was informative, interesting and delivered in a very stimulating style!"
Sheila Fawcett, Marketing Catalyst Ltd
"Thank you for sharing your management philosophies with our team who, without exception,
Found your presentation thought provoking and stimulating"
Paul D Phipps, Taywood Homes Limited
"Thank you for making our event such an exceptional success. We have received endless letters of thanks from delegates"
Michelle Russell , Isle of Wight TEC
"You delivered a superb address in ICCA 99 in Lisbon. It was most inspiring"
Godfrey King, Publisher and Editor
"People are still quoting the things you’ve said. This is perhaps the best measure that they were listening and understood your message"
Staffordshire Police