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Drew Locher

Managing Director, Change Management Associates

Drew Locher is managing director for Change Management Associates, which provides lean enterprise consulting and organizational development services to industrial and service organizations. Drew is also a faculty member at the Lean Enterprise Institute, and an instructor for the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST MEP). He is a member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society, American Society for Quality, and Association for Manufacturing Excellence. In 2004, he co-authored the Shingo Prize-winning book The Complete Lean Enterprise – Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes. Drew received a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Delaware, as well as a master’s degree from Drexel University in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a master’s in business administration from Cornell University.