Achieve excellence in your manufacturing business
Focused Potential helps manufacturing leaders achieve irreversible operational excellence.
Many businesses see short-term gains from Lean or Six Sigma, only to slip back once the consultants leave.
Our Focused Excellence System prevents that cycle by combining proven enterprise methods with insights from neuroscience, motivation, and cultural change.
We align business needs with people’s natural drive to perform at their best, creating teams that solve problems by default, build trust, and sustain results.
Put simply: we turn operational frustrations into lasting performance gains.
Take our free online Masterclass
This comprehensive course is designed for leaders in manufacturing and other industries seeking to achieve irreversible Operational Excellence. If you've struggled with sustaining improvements from methodologies like Lean or Six Sigma, this masterclass is for you.
Struggling with choosing the correct tools or techniques?
Use our free AI powered, expert curated, Operational Improvement Advisor
Simply describe your challenge and we'll provide you with a list of Focused improvement Techniques which can solve it. And we'll even give you a free How-To Guide for each one!
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Discover the critical insights behind why Operational Excellence often falters and learn the strategies to ensure lasting success. In "The 12 Reasons Why Operational Excellence Never Lasts", Dan Stanway shares his extensive experience and practical wisdom, integrating proven techniques from leading experts.
How we can help you achieve your desired business and personal outcomes
Our Services
Business Diagnostics
Helping you understand exactly what is stopping your business from achieving its objectives
Transformation Strategy
Creating a strategic plan tailored specifically to your business and how it operates
Coaching
Helping people develop the knowledge, proficiency, attitude, and habits need to make excellence irreversible
Does this sound like you?
Book a free 25 minute exploratory session, and let's discuss how we can help
The decline or disappearance of business improvements made in years gone by is far from unsual
You are not alone!
We understand how frustrating it can be for leaders and team members alike to witness the reversing of historic improvements or best practices. You're not on your own, and the good news is we know exactly where to find the answer to stop it happening again.
Do you feel like... it must be me that's failing
Does it seem like... I have no outside help or resources who can understand what its going to take to fix this
Are you frustrated that... other people simply don't behave or take the correct actions or accountability which results in a negative impact on business performance
And when it comes down to it, do you... worry about what this means for your own and your organisations future prospects
Meet the founder of Focused Potential
Dan Stanway
Hi, I'm Dan and I spent 15 years in operational management and divisional business transformation roles before beginning my career in coaching in 2014.
Since then my own transformational journey has taken me to coach Top-Tier Executives in multi-billion pound organisations in Engineering and Transportation industries, as well as SMEs in industries as diverse as packaging, and aerospace.
In my 15 year pre-coaching career I held senior executive roles including full Factory Management responsibility for a major oil and gas products manufacturer, delivering the financial, operational, and business objectives.
I was also fortunate enough to have a varied career which gives me the necessary insight for what good looks like in most functional areas. At one time or another, I was accountable for the performance of Planning, Procurement, Sourcing, Warehousing, Despatch, Quality, Internal Sales, Strategic Sourcing, Design, New Products Introduction, and Business Transformation.
Tailoring improvement methodologies to help clients develop their own way is a passion for me, which I prefer is done with a very hands-on approach, working closely with front-line and leadership teams alike.
I can't wait to meet you so we can discuss how best to help you with your own transformational journey.
Testimonials
Proven Outcomes
"Focused Potential led the delivery of a large-scale cultural change programme with us over the course of a year and was pivotal in helping us establish our ways of working for a critical multi-billion pound delivery programme."
GLENN, DELIVERY DIRECTOR, DEFENCE
Focused Potential coached one of my managers in a challenging warehouse environment, where safety was a real concern, and the change was completely transformative, in terms of Safety, Morale, Quality, Delivery, and Cost. The insight and ability to get results from the people being coached is truly world class"
ALAN, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR.
TIER 1 PACKAGING MANUFACTURER
I just want to offer a huge thanks for all the help and support given to me by the Focused Potential Coach, over the past few months. It's been truly eye opening for me and will keep what I've learnt with me for the rest of my career. Thanks for the excellent coaching!
JAKE, HEAD OF CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND INVESTMENTS.
MULTINATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY