About Jason Furness

Jason Furness has over two decades of experience as a Line Executive who has successfully turned around numerous business units by implementing Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma principles, TPM, and any other improvement method he has seen around the world over his two decades in manufacturing.

He has extensive experience in the Auto Industry with Holden, Steel Industry with Smorgon Steel, and Whitegoods with Electrolux.

Before becoming a full time Executive Coach and Mentor providing training to business owners, executives, and managers in manufacturing businesses he turned around a large business unit for a large multi-national with turnover of over $240m and 580 people. Some key performance changes are detailed below.

• Profit from $252k to over $28m in three years
• Warranty performance taken to record low levels saving over seven figures a year
• Benchmark Status in Workcover Self Insurance Audits

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What some of our Raving Fans have to say...

$147 Marketing Campaign Generates $284,449 In Sales

I spent $147 on a Marketing Campaign Jason developed for me and it has generated $284,449 in extra sales in just 6 weeks. I have no longer have any worries about not having enough work!

Jason is now also helping me change how I run my factory so that we can continue to produce all this extra work without me having to slave away working the long hours I used to do.

Business Coaching Works!”

Ian (Bart) Bartholomaeus – CEO, Midpro Engineering, Forbes NSW


Found Savings Of $40m In Capital Expenditure

“Jason is a change agent. He defines what the goals should be and engages the workforce at all levels to achieve them.

As Quality Manager for our 1600-person business, he was the unrelenting voice of the customer challenging all areas of manufacturing to see problems from the perspective of the customer.

As Foundry Manager of what was the largest grey iron foundry in the Southern Hemisphere, Jason led the team to change the operations from being typically foundry (dark, dirty, poor safety performance, and modest efficiency performance) into a benchmark operation that was innovative in work processes and working conditions and at the same time making significant improvements in contributions to profitability.

He was then promoted to take charge of a $250m project that was heading towards a major blowout of both cost and timing. Internationally he negotiated with suppliers initiating savings of $40m in capital expenditure, and locally refocused a launch team unsure of its goals, enabling the project of building a new engine factory to be launched on time and back on budget without compromise to quality or safety.”

Vic Beesley – Former Director of Engine Operations, Holden

Annual Benefit Of More Than 8 Figures

“I have known Jason for nearly 20 years and worked closely with him for the last three years whilst he was at Electrolux in Orange.

Manufacturing in Australia is a tough game and is always on a knife edge. Jason led the Orange team of nearly 600 people to reduce costs, increase customer support, set new records for quality and expand export markets. This was done before and during the GFC! All of this without large scale investment and in an incredibly competitive environment with many players.

All of these improvements flowed through to the bottom line in a multi-million dollar annual benefit of more than 8 figures!

If you are a Manufacturer, you need to talk to this guy and hear how he can help you!”

Tom Bell – Senior Vice President Manufacturing Asia Pacific

Electrolux

Freed Up $150,000…In Cashflow

“I’ve been working with Jason Furness for several months now, through his Inner Circle Program, and I’ve learnt a lot in that time. Jason’s experience is in the real world. He has got a lot to teach you.

Some of the things that we’ve taken from Jason’s teaching here at Superbee have been reducing our finished goods inventory by over 50 per cent, which has freed up something like $150 000 of cashflow. As part of that, it’s allowed us to improve our quality and improve our consistency of supply to our customers, which has improved our relationship with them and repeat business.

We’ve cut our lead times down from four weeks to down to one week, which again has improved our business enormously. Jason’s shown us some simple tools to use and a visual scoreboard so all of our staff and all of our people can see what’s going on and work with that process. It’s led to a happier staff, it’s led to easier production scheduling and it’s greatly improved our DIFOT over time.

I couldn’t recommend Jason highly enough. If you’re in manufacturing, you have to speak with this guy.”

Chris Kath – Superbee Honey Factory, Forbes NSW

Working with Jason is just awesome…

“Working with Jason is just awesome. He has an amazing knack for understanding your business in an incredibly short time and getting straight to the points that matter to you.

In the last few weeks, he has helped us to clear a pile of dead wood away and to focus on the most important areas of our business – putting us on track to make huge profits over the next 12 months.

His mentoring program offers value that is way in excess of its cost and his no-questions-asked risk reversal makes signing up with Jason a complete no brainer.”

Alex French – Nexoras Marketing

High Level Of Integrity

“My name is Jennie Brown and I am a property investor, speaker, mentor and author. I have known Jason Furness for several years now and recently have been a most fortunate recipient of his amazing business knowledge and coaching.

Every single meeting I have with Jason leaves me fired up, inspired and full of fresh and exciting new ideas. In addition to business ideas, Jason has assisted me personally by questioning my mindset, asking hard questions, challenging perceptions and helping me achieve new levels. Very few people have the ability to do this; however, Jason does it well.

In addition, he is a genuine and honest person with a high level of integrity. If you are serious about taking yourself and your business to new levels, then I can highly recommend Jason Furness to you.”

Jennie Brown – www.JennieBrown.com.au, Brisbane

Understanding our financials…growing our business…

“Working with Jason helped us to understand our financials in a way we have never done in our 18 years in business.We now know where we need to focus our efforts and we have a system to allow us to see our future workload so we know where we are going.

We have improved our Marketing materials and process with a lot more people knowing who we are and what we do. We are now really proud of the information we send out about our engineering services.

We have plenty more work to do and working with Jason has us started on growing our business and our financial rewards.”

Warren & Jane Lefbvre – CEO’s, WRL Engineering Pty Ltd, Warren NSW

$1,000,000 Reduction in Costs

“Sunrice is a large rice processor located in Leeton NSW. We employ well over 150 people and run a multi-shift operation that can run 7 days a week.

Our team members were all working extremely hard, but in different directions. A small numbers of people were depended on to deliver on the results. Team members were constantly waiting to be told what to do. We were all operating at the level below where we were paid to work.

Personally I needed to move from being a reactive manager who was bogged down in the day to day, to a leader who was managing the issues, engaging staff, and getting results financially and in all other areas.

Over a period of 12 months I have had regular mentoring sessions with Jason. We have implemented a simple system that has aligned and focused our leadership team and myself. We combined my personal mentoring sessions with having Jason run some focused training workshops to provide clarity about how to implement the systems and perform our roles more effectively and with less pressure.

I have successfully taken on a larger role as the Site Operations manager with considerably more responsibility. Work is more enjoyable as each day I can see progress on the previous day. Rather than being on the treadmill with little to show for my efforts, working hard is now delivering results!

The Leeton manufacturing group has definitely made some massive improvements in many aspects of the business, especially in quality, safety, cost reduction and people development.  The business has taken out at least $1,000,000 of cost in the past 12 months; Jason’s mentoring has been a significant contributor to this.

If a manager wants to improve how they manage, how their team performs and how their business performs, then Jason as a coach would be an excellent investment.”

Simon Spiers – Manufacturing Manager, Leeton Mill, Sunrice, Leeton NSW

Financially We Are Back In Control!

“When we met Jason our business had no marketing approach and we ran from week to week managing cash flow.

We worked with Jason to develop a low cost marketing plan that (along with making a great plane) has resulted in a solid pipeline of orders for our Brumby 610 aircraft for the next 4-5 months.

When this happened we realised that we did not have a system that allowed us to manage the aircraft production as well as the other jobs that were coming into the workshop. The workshop was cramped, jobs were taking way too long and we could not confidently tell a customer when they would see their plane completed.

Jason then worked with us to put in place a production system that (within 2 weeks) has significantly improved productivity of the workforce and given us transparency of where every job is at. The peace of mind this gives us has been fantastic. The reduction in stress and confusion amongst everyone has been massive.

Financially we are back in control and I can spend time growing the business knowing that the workshop is running smoothly.”

Paul Goard – Brumby Aircraft Australia, Cowra NSW

A Rapid Change in Delivery Performance had our sales team asking What Had Happened!

“A year ago I took over the General Manager’s role for the TYCO Water fittings, valve foundry and manufacturing business unit, with Sales of over $45m and more than 180 people. For many years our supply performance to our distribution centres and customers had been poor and none of the previous strategies attempted had made any significant improvements for our end customers. My own team had reached the point where they believed that reducing our overdue orders beyond a certain point was impossible.

Within a couple of months of working with Jason as part of his Executive Mentoring program we had implemented some very simple strategies that reduced our overdue orders down to half what people thought was possible. This made such a rapid change in our delivery performance that our sales division was asking what had happened!

I then used Jason as a trainer with my Lead Team to help us define and build the management system needed so that these gains would continue to occur, the improved performance levels would become normal, and to lock these gains in for the future. Introducing the changes needed with my team is now much easier as the alignment this training created has been tremendous.We are continuing to work with Jason to drop our lead times, reduce our work in progress, and boost our cash flow.

Jason is a straight shooter and draws upon his wealth of experience to help you cut through the noise and find what is holding your business back. The practical, real world based approach Jason uses really works!”

Duncan Greeney – General Manager, TYCO Water, Currumbin QLD

His Ability To Hone In On The Critical Improvement Opportunity To Allow For Immediate Traction Was Impressive!

“Jason is an engaging speaker with a proven approach to improving cash flow, not just talking about it.

I attended his Manufacturing Mentoring training sessions along with a room full of business operators keen to improve their operational results. His ability to hone in on the critical improvement opportunity to allow for immediate traction was impressive.

Jason applies the Goldratt’s approach to ongoing improvement, and for those that have read “The Goal” by Goldratt will know that this very success approach needs a “Jason” to mentor and coach teams to achieve the exceptional results available to them.”

Suzanne Marshall – Director, Logistics Association of Australia, Parramatta NSW