Shane Yount
Principal
Shane Yount is a senior partner and owner with Competitive Solutions, Inc. Shane is a highly respected performance improvement consultant in the areas of strategic business solutions, work team implementation, and employee and leadership development. He brings extensive experience in the food processing industry, having joined Perdue Farms, Inc. the nations third largest poultry grower, and processor. During Shane’s tenure with Perdue Farms he served in the following roles:
- First Line Supervisor
- Assistant Quality Control Manager
- Facility Quality Control Manager
- Facility Operations Manager
- Special Projects Champion, tasked with the company wide implementation of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Philip Crosby’s Quality Management Initiative. Featured on Tom Peter’s, In Search of Excellence, video series for the accomplishments in quality focus and employee engagement.
Shane blends both a comical and a no-nonsense approach to his presentation style. He believes that organizations today have lost sight of their key business drivers and that most leaders are thoroughly confused as to what it means to be a leader in today’s business climate. Shane stresses that organizations today must create and sustain a culture with three non-negotiable attributes. Those attributes include: a sense of urgency, a clear and concise business focus and leadership driven, shared accountability. Only with these three elements in place will business success be achieved.
Popular on the lecture and leadership development circuit, Shane energizes his audience through the power of real life situations and innovative business solutions that all leaders and employees can immediately implement. His experience, in potentially the toughest workplace in America, enables all who encounter his approach to see the benefits and payoffs of implementing non-negotiable business processes. He stresses that true organizational effectiveness comes only through leadership driven habit, discipline and structure. His expertise is backed by a Bachelor of Arts degree from Elon College in North Carolina. Shane is the author of numerous training programs and implementation modules currently being taught in corporations throughout the country.
Some of Shane’s clients include Boar’s Head Meats, The Boeing Company, Michelin Tire Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Genentech, Harley-Davidson, BF Goodrich, Lockheed Martin, NISH, Tobyhanna Army Depot, United States Mint, Corpus Christi Army Depot, and Barstow Marine Base.
