Creative Solutions for Thorny Problems
Opportunity is waiting to grab you the same way it grabbed Michael and Mohammed, two beneficiaries from the SOS Children Village in Sierra Leone. You only need two things – creativity, unconventional thinking and problem solving mindset.
Meet The Author, Bill Forster
My passion is supporting CEOs with creating a high performance culture, results the right way. It must start with trust.
As a decisive executive leader and successful entrepreneur, I have built an exceptional track record of revenue and profit growth for manufacturing and service-related businesses across five continents. With more than thirty years of P&L experience, including turnarounds and lean environments, I have led the revitalization of operations systems while dramatically impacting the growth of sales and improving profitability.
I have worked for some leading names including Astec Industries, Atkins. Dave & Buster’s, BHPB, Global Quality Ingredients, Bunge, Key Surgical, Kohlberg & Co., Nellson, Potash Corp, Smithfield, RMH Foods, United Suppliers, Water Street Capital, McDonald’s, Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Del Taco, Checkers & Rally’s, Wendy’s, Mott’s, Captain D’s, Rich Products, Dr Pepper, Mosaic, Eat’n Park, Popcorn Indiana, and Cadbury Schweppes, and was a field consultant and owner operator with Chick-fil-A. My knowledge has been acquired from years of frontline exposure across the global value chain in food manufacturing and processing, quick service restaurants/casual dining, and hospitality as well as the chemical, pharmaceutical, printing, publishing and broadcast media industries. My consulting engagement experience includes chemical leaders such Albemarle, Cytec, Flexsys, CPFilms, Saflex and Solutia in addition to pharmaceutical pioneers Bioscrip and Novartis.
