Operational Improvement professional with focus on delivering rapid and enduring results in client organisations, large and small. Ewald is a partner in Chartwell Consulting and have more than 10 years of experience delivering breakthrough improvements to operational performance. He has successfully proven our approach in a broad range of industries including consumer goods, chemicals, fashion, construction and food. His consulting experience covers Europe, North America and the Far East.
Broad experience implementing improvement methods and tools originating from popular philosophies like Lean, Theory of Constraints (Goldratt), TPM, World Class Manufacturing, etc.
Specialities: Operational performance improvement: 20-50% improvement in operational performance without capital expense in 2-6 months.
Operational Due Diligence: Fast and accurate analysis of operational performance, uncovering hidden opportunity and/or risks as well as validation of investment vs. alternatives that do not require capital expenditure.
Operations Leadership Coaching: Leadership coaching aimed at helping Operations Leaders ingrain an improvement culture deep in their business.

• Partner, Chartwell Consulting, Mai 2013 – Today
• Denken Partners, Oktober 2012 – April 2013, Operations Management Consulting.
• Principal, Zellweger Management Consultants, Februar 2010 – September 2012
• Operations & Management Consulting, Consultant, Stroud Consulting, März 2004 – November 2009

Chartwell Consulting helps leading manufacturing and support services businesses to deliver industry beating improvements in: PRODUCTIVITY – PERFORMANCE – PROFIT Our team of consultants have many years’ experience delivering operational improvement for a wide range of companies. The team are led by four partners who between them have over 50 years’ experience in industry and working directly in operations. We believe passionately in continuous improvement, our core expertise is the identification and delivery of large and often hidden potential. We repeatedly achieve 20% - 50% improvement in performance in 2 - 6 months. Client leaders testify that we have a hands-on approach that leaves lasting change in their organisations. We will not take on engagements that do not justify our fees and we back up our work with a “no result, no fee” guarantee. Typical Situations where our clients will use us: 1. You feel that further value can be created from your business or assets and you are looking to gain the necessary insight and support to build your strategy. 2. You are production constrained and you need to increase output to increase sales. 3. You would like to drive sales growth without adding shifts, labour, or spending CAPEX 4. You want to improve productivity to drive cost savings. 5. You want to free up capital by making your supply chain more efficient. 6. There is a known problem that you need sorting out quickly, eg: stockouts or yield improvement.