Tom’s coaching equips teams with tools that increase their effectiveness. He helps team members connect personal aspirations to team goals, cultivates a shared leadership culture, and builds new capabilities that align with the team’s aspirations, resulting in peak results. This alignment is fundamental to cultivate the necessary environment to maintain lean practices, which create more value with fewer resources.

Tom’s work with lean principles began in 2000 when he led implementing them on two New England building projects, resulting in his designing and delivering companywide lean training workshops. The experiences and insights from his 2017 workshop with leading lean practitioners and a group of artists are documented in his book, Lean Conversations: The Energy of the Creative Ethos in Your Life and Work, with a foreword by John Shook.

He is a regular contributor to the Lean Enterprise Institute Lean Post, the co-author of papers addressing lean topics published by the American Association of Civil Engineers and the International Group for Lean Construction, and has lectured to graduate classes at the University of California Berkeley, Loyola University New Orleans, and the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He is a Lean Summit workshop facilitator, a member of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI), and has presented work at past LCI annual conferences.