Consulting Partners
Expand Your Services. Keep Your Brand.
Your client relationships. Our design expertise and production capabilities. More opportunities to deliver. You've helped your clients identify opportunities to improve. Now imagine being able to offer the custom visual management systems that bring those recommendations to life. Without building a design department. Without managing production. Without adding employees or investing in equipment. Lean-Ovations works behind the scenes with independent consultants and industry partners to help turn improvement recommendations into practical, professionally designed visual management solutions.
You've Built the Relationships. Let's Expand What's Possible.
Your clients trust you to understand their challenges and recommend solutions that make a difference. But sometimes the next step requires capabilities beyond your current services.
Maybe you've identified an opportunity for better workplace organization. A manufacturer needs custom shadow boards, visual performance tracking, safety centers, or point-of-use visual controls. Or a client is ready to roll out a successful improvement across multiple departments or facilities.
You know what would help. You may even have the solution mapped out. But designing, sourcing, and producing custom systems takes time, resources, and specialized knowledge.
You don't have to build those capabilities yourself to offer them to your clients.
That's where we come in.
Your Expertise. Our Capabilities. One Complete Solution.
We provide the design and production support that allows you to expand your offerings while keeping the client relationship and your brand at the forefront.
Custom Design & Development
Our design team works from your project requirements, measurements, process details, and client needs to develop professional visual management solutions.
From initial concepts and mockups through design revisions and final approval, we help bring your recommendations into a form your clients can use.
Production & Fulfillment
Once the design is approved, we coordinate production of the physical visual management systems.
Our capabilities include custom shadow boards, cleaning stations, safety centers, visual management boards, and other solutions designed around the operation. We help manage the transition from approved design to completed product, including appropriate packaging and freight coordination.
Your Brand. Your Client Relationship.
You remain the primary point of contact for your client.
We can work behind the scenes to support your projects, with agreed branding and fulfillment arrangements that fit your business. Your clients receive professionally designed, custom solutions while you maintain the relationships you've worked hard to build.
Solutions You Can Add to Your Services
Offer clients more than recommendations by helping them implement practical workplace systems.
Custom Shadow Boards & Tool Organization
Purpose-built systems that make required tools easier to locate, identify, return, and manage.
Cleaning & Sanitation Stations
Organized cleaning equipment systems for industrial and food manufacturing environments.
Safety & PPE Centers
Visual systems that help employees identify and access required safety equipment and supplies.
Visual Management & Performance Boards
Custom boards for production status, performance tracking, communication, accountability, and daily management.
Mobile Visual Management Systems
Portable shadow board and mobile stations that bring tools, equipment, and visual controls closer to the work.
Multi-Area & Multi-Facility Rollouts
Repeatable visual management designs that support consistency across departments, shifts, and locations.
How Our Partnership Works
You Identify the Opportunity
You work with your client to understand their needs, priorities, and improvement goals. When a custom visual management solution is needed, you bring us into the process as your design and production resource.
We Develop the Solution
Using the information you provide, our team develops concepts and mockups for your review. We work through design adjustments and specifications until the solution is ready for approval.
We Produce the System
Once the design and commercial terms are approved, we coordinate production and fulfillment according to the agreed project requirements.
You Deliver the Value
You maintain your client relationship, coordinate any consulting or implementation services within your scope, and help your client put the solution to work. We provide the specialized capabilities that support your success.
A Partnership Built Around Your Business
We recognize that independent consultants and service providers operate differently. Some want to incorporate custom visual management solutions into larger improvement engagements. Others want to offer additional products without expanding their internal operations. And some simply need a reliable design and production partner for occasional projects.
We're open to exploring arrangements that fit your business model. Depending on the opportunity, this may include:
- White-label design and production
- Partner-branded products and project materials
- Project-based design and fulfillment support
- Repeatable solutions for multi-site clients
- Referral arrangements when a direct project partnership isn't appropriate
Branding, pricing, responsibilities, and fulfillment details are agreed upon before work begins.
The goal is to help you offer more value to your clients without taking on the cost and complexity of doing everything yourself.
Who We Work With
We're interested in connecting with professionals and businesses serving manufacturing and industrial clients, including:
- Lean and Continuous Improvement Consultants
- Operational Excellence Consultants
- Manufacturing and Process Improvement Advisors
- Workplace Safety and Risk Assessment Consultants
- 5S and Visual Management Practitioners
- Maintenance and Reliability Consultants
- Industrial Safety Product Distributors
- Manufacturing Service Providers
- Cleaning Supply Distributors
- Facility Management Service Providers
You don't need to be an expert in designing or producing visual management systems. That's the capability we bring to the partnership. You bring your understanding of the client, their operation, and the improvement opportunities.
Let's Explore What We Could Build Together.
You've invested time earning your clients' trust. We'd welcome the opportunity to help you expand what you can deliver.
Tell us about your business, the clients you serve, and the kinds of projects you'd like to offer. We'll explore whether our design and production capabilities could complement your services.