About
At The Ingleton Group, we are dedicated to helping organizations drive excellence by cultivating a culture of continuous learning and improvement. With over 20 years of experience, our team of highly seasoned coaches collaborate closely with businesses across various industries building internal capability to help teams get better every day.
Through clarity of purpose, enabling leaders as coaches and enhancing decision making and problem-solving skills of teams; organizations foster a sense of ownership, enhanced morale, innovation, and resilience in ever changing environments. Our flexible approach is tailored to meet the unique challenges and opportunities of each client. Engage our team to explore how we may help your organization.
Our Mission:
Our mission is to help teams get better every day by supporting them in creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Our History:
Founded by Danièle Ingleton, a Lean Sigma Master Black Belt, The Ingleton Group has evolved from a passionate coaching practice into a leading management consultancy recognized for its profound impact on people, processes and results.
Our Approach:
We believe in leading with respect for people, working closely with our clients at every step to ensure deep understanding and effective implementation of Lean principles and behaviours with measurable results.
Our Guiding Principles
At The Ingleton Group, our guiding principles have been carefully selected to shine a clear light on our teams’ decision making. They include:
Respect for people
Leaders as coaches
Understand at the source
Make good decisions based on data
Fast learning cycles
Structure processes
Meet Our Team
Our strength lies in our people. Meet the dedicated professionals
who are the heart of The Ingleton Group.
Danièle Ingleton
Founder, Coach and Lean Sigma Master Black Belt, Danièle has over 20 years of experience supporting Lean transformations across a variety of industries including transit, healthcare and retail. Over the years, Daniele has developed an extensive knowledge base in the application of Lean concepts and tools. More importantly, she understands the mindset and behaviours required by people leaders to cultivate a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Daniele is passionate about people and processes, and is known for her engaging and energizing approach where teams feel safe to share ideas and experiment by taking action; increasing the rate of learning and change.
Chihab Kaab
Chihab Kaab is a passionate organization change coach with 20 years in the fields of management coaching, strategy deployment and LEAN Six Sigma capability building. Chihab has worked with healthcare, service, transit and manufacturing organizations in various roles as an Executive coach, Transformation lead, LEAN Master Black Belt, and Operations Manager.
Chihab has coached various senior leaders, managers, and team members on behavior change and continuous improvement. He is known for his candid, direct and supportive approach. Whether you’re defining your company vision, revamping your culture, or creating the strategy for the future, Coach Chihab gets your team out of their seats and working together.
Tom Beschtel
Tom is an accomplished Lean trainer, coach and facilitator with 30 years experience. Throughout his career, Tom has designed and delivered Lean educational programs, facilitated value stream mapping and kaizen events, led process improvement projects and mentored internal change agents across the United States, Canada and Europe alongside prominent thought leaders in Lean such as Jamie Flinchbaugh and Andy Carlino. Having led and coached others through complex projects, Tom understands both the hard and the soft skills required for sustainable change.
Tom has designed and developed training material to facilitate knowledge transfer of best practices across many industries including public sector, transit, healthcare and retail. Tom’s coaching has included senior executives, project managers, lean leaders and kaizen workshop facilitators
Phil Sheldon
Certified and highly seasoned Lean Practitioner with over two decades of experience in continuous improvement, and project management. Approachable and open minded; believing in the value of people, respecting their knowledge and ability to build a strong, motivated team. A natural quick-start implementer; energized by the challenge of understanding processes and identifying opportunities for improvement.
With in-depth experience in both the theory and application of Process Improvement techniques. Effective at communicating across all levels in an organization. Able to utilize a practical mixture, of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints in a way that engages the people who do the work.