Different Wisdom
Dr. Brian Sloan
Finance, strategy, and organizational culture
Brian Sloan, CMA, CPA, MBA, DBA brings more than 36 years of senior management, teaching, and financial leadership to his work, with a focus on controllership, employee engagement, organizational culture, business strategy, and Lean, also known as the Toyota Production System.
Brian was a corporate controller for 22 years, most recently at Armo-Tool Limited in London, Ontario, where he combined financial leadership with Lean to improve accounting, administrative, and shop-floor functions and co-led the implementation of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). Brian teaches quantitative research methods and management accounting at Fanshawe College.
His education includes the CMA designation (1992, updated to CPA in 2015), an Ivey MBA (2006), a certificate in Lean business processes from the University of Michigan (2007), and a Doctor of Business Administration from Edinburgh Napier University (2018), with a thesis on cultural factors that shape the adoption of Lean in manufacturing.
Away from the numbers, Brian plays keyboard, accordion, and organ.
Ways of practice: Decision Intelligence · Strategic Planning · Operational Planning · Leadership · Team Development · Organizational Culture · Training · Coaching and Mentoring · Organizational Retreats
