(SCTP) Programme for the Lean Six Sigma Champion and Operational Excellence Manager

Yoong Fook Loy is currently an Associate Faculty of SIT, specialising in Lean. He is currently the Managing Director of Centre for Performance Transformation that enable business transformation through process, people and business modelling. He also represents Pivotal Resources in Asia as the Managing Consultant for Lean and Six Sigma.  He has been providing in-depth consulting, training and hands-on deployment in Socio-technical system of Organisation Design and Development since 1995.

Fook Loy spent nearly 12 years at General Electric (GE) and has the opportunity to work in different businesses.  He held various positions in Operation, Human Resources Development and Six Sigma. His last rotation in GE was as Corporate Leadership Program Manager for Asia, overseeing talent development in numerous GE Leadership Programs before moving into the area of Lean Six Sigma Consulting in 2002.  As a Corporate Leadership Programme Manager, Fook Loy was involved in nurturing and mentoring over 200+ leaders in Asia, being very involved in training and coaching these leaders in their Six Sigma projects.

As a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Fook Loy provide consulting, coaching and training services to various Multinational companies, among those are Air Products, Givaudan Asia Pacific, Cathay Pacific, Halliburton, Far East Organization, Continental Automotive, National Health Group Singapore, Nanyang Technological University  and others. He is also an adjunct Lecturer with Nanyang Technological University, supporting the Centre for Professional and Adult Continuing Education. 

Fook Loy graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also a certified Lean Launchpad Educator (University of California, Berkeley), an accredited Design Thinker, (Stanford Design School), a Master Trainer and Consultant for High Performance Work Organization and a Certified Gallup Strengths- Finder Coach. Fook Loy is also an accredited facilitator in the Myer Brigg Type Indicator, Belbin Team Role, and the Leadership Challenge.

Thomas Chew is a certified Lean Master, Six Sigma Black Belt and Kaizen Coach with 24 years of experience in various industries. He has just returned from his expat assignment in Kazakhstan, where he supported Shell as a Continuous Improvement Master Coach. His other assignments with Shell included being on assignment at Norske Shell (upstream) in Norway, where he developed fit-for-purpose Lean training programmes. The training laid the foundation to support the roll-out of the fit-for-future initiative. A major contribution was in his role as CI Lead for Global Key Account (GKA) and Specialties (Europe), where he supported the simplification efforts in the Tender Assessment Process, reducing lead-time from 50 days to 14 days, amongst others.

Thomas’ Lean journey started at ST Kinetics in 1999, when he was involved in the company-wide Lean initiative. He received Gemba Kaizen training and mentoring under Shingijutsu Co. Ltd. He provided training for 1400 employees and facilitated and coached close to 100 projects. His other exposure to Lean was with Honeywell Aerospace, where he was the Lean Master with APAC responsibilities to deploy the Honeywell Operating System. 

As a senior consultant with the Centre for Performance Transformation, Thomas provides Lean Six Sigma and people transformation training and consulting services to various organizations in healthcare, banking, government institutions, oil and gas, aerospace, and automotive in Singapore and the ASEAN region. Thomas graduated with a BSc in Management (2^nd Upper) from the University of London (1998).