Chad is the owner and principal consultant of Bareither Group Consulting. His firm partners with clients to implement a system for sustainable operational excellence.  Often, they find, we are doing too much.  Without focus we waste money and potentially lose customers.  Without Alignment we waste time and burn our people out. This is the subject of his book “Improve LESS”, which catalogs three elements of The Focus and Align Framework^TM – Strategy, Improvement, Daily Management.

Chad takes this approach and his 20 years of experience to enabling change capability for mid-market manufacturing and product development firms.  Chad is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University as well as master’s degrees in both Industrial & Systems Engineering and Applied Statistics from Rutgers University.  Chad and his wife reside in Southwest Michigan with their three children.