Dewey had been a lead consultant, coach and trainer on numerous business change and improvement initiatives, including work with many top companies in both service and manufacturing industries. His consulting work has encompassed Six Sigma, process redesign, Lean, revenue generation, cycle time reduction, cost reduction and Supply Chain. His focus is on aligning process management initiatives with profit and customer retention optimization. Additionally, Dewey has extensive experience in team building, team facilitation and change management.
Dewey began his career in the garment and textile industry in New York, working as a sales rep for one of the larger supplies to the garment industry. Also prior to consulting, he worked at ConvaTec (a Bristol-Myers Squibb company) where he moved from Sales to take responsibility for developing and implementing the corporate Total Quality Leadership (TQL) initiative. He coordinated the company global roll-out and managed the integration with existing ConvaTec learning systems. In addition, as a Marketing and Planning Analyst for ITT Rayonier, he was responsible for preparing cost/benefit and profit analyses of development projects.
Dewey moved in to the consulting field in the early 1990s, working with Meritus consulting prior to joining Pivotal Resources. He has conducted extensive consulting work in program implementation and project execution for such clients as Starwood Hotels, UnitedHealth Group, Mercer Consulting, Century 21/Coldwell Banker Real Estate, and BP. He has also trained executives, Black Belt and Green Belts for a diverse array of companies including GE Capital, Nedcor Bank, Milliken & Company, 21st Century Insurance, HSBC, Wells Fargo, and Oracle, among others.
Dewey has strong international background, consulting management groups in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. He also spent three years in Sierra Leone, West Africa, serving in a U.S. Peace Corps agricultural program.
Dewey has an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |