ProGuide Academy for Management Excellence

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The ProGuide Academy has educated more than 2,000 supervisors, middle managers, and senior executives in better business practices to help them identify hidden waste, improve their processes, and reduce extraneous operating costs from their operations. We have tailored supply chain educational solutions to specific industries to make the training more impactful. One such program is our Red Belt Program, which is recognized within the global blood industry as the best-in-class program to help blood centers train personnel in areas not normally included in their training programs. Since 2010, this Red Belt Program has identified more than $50 million in savings and attendance post-session surveys demonstrated a 99.9% satisfaction rate.

With Fondest Memories of Jeff Edwards

Jeffrey S. Edwards was a principle architect of early supply chain theory at Motorola and was actively engaged with the Toyota Production System, both progenitors of most LEAN Programs universally in practice today. He went on to start consulting in the blood industry with ProGuide nearly 25 years ago and consulted globally at more than 30 blood centers. After years of developing relevant materials, BOOTS was launched to wide acclaim in Orlando with participation from nearly every ABC, BCA, and HemeXcel member, as well as some international blood operations such as Canadian Blood Services and NHSBT (UK). Numerous topics surrounding process optimization, cost reduction, and supply chain management best practices were taught, and attendees reported to have saved over $35 million from the projects they developed at BOOTS.