Jim Adkins
Jim graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1981 and then went on to a long career in the Air Force as a leader, engineer, metallurgist, project/program manager, and acquisition officer. He took an incentivized early retirement opportunity and retired from his government service in 1996. His first commercial endeavor was with General Motors/Delphi Packard-Electric and GM/Delphi Chassis responsible for $75M in services and labor agreements necessary to run a multi-location $3.5B business.
Next, Jim took his talents to the private equity industry in his first of four business turn-arounds. Mentoring, teaching and leading the efforts for all operational and business services, agreements, contracts, and negotiations; he was able to add significant value and improve the bottom line. He was sought after and joined John Deere Corp. After numerous business successes, Jim re-entered the private equity world in 2002 with Enerpac LLC. to lead his second business turn-around. Using the same recipe he had refined to a science; he was able to achieve double-digit improvements in profitability in less than six months.
Since 2002 Jim has gone on to successfully use his personal brand to lead, guide, improve and work in several industries including light and heavy manufacturing, lawn/termite service, fastener, automotive, electronics, jet engine businesses, healthcare, Social Media, SAAS, and entrepreneurial start-ups. Certified as a LEAN and Six Sigma Black Belt / Champion and led 1000+ projects at the individual and corporate wide level to improve research & development, operations, procurement, Sales and Operations Planning (SOP), after-market support and sales initiatives. His senior leadership experience with private equity, privately held companies, publicly held companies, government buying and selling, plus two additional business turn-arounds with brands like Bobcat, ServiceMaster, and Chromalloy will provide any business partner with personalized and tailored approaches and solutions that will best meet their needs at both the individual and organizational levels.
Some of Jim’s proven areas of expertise are:
- Leadership and Leadership Development
- Identifying and implanting changes needed to achieve business growth
- Successful Communication within all levels of business
- Recognizing, Encouraging, and Creating Opportunity for Employee Achievement
- LEAN, Six Sigma, DMAIC, Toyota Production System
- Team Building, Collaboration, and Partnership
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Identifying Necessary Culture Changes, Recognizing/Improving Current Cultures
- Strategic Planning and Execution on Priorities
- Determine Crucial Management Changes
- Successful Mergers and Acquisitions