About Tipping Point Solutions

“ Pierre is an instrumental leader and champion at LifeLabs for innovation and continuous improvement. He continually encourages and supports innovation and continuous improvement by creating a climate and culture that identifies and methodically investigates opportunities for systemic change" ..  "Pierre is an instrumental executive leader who lives and breathes continuous improvement and innovation. He is our key driver of change – improving quality, customer experience, employee engagement, business performance and realizing new business opportunities. We feel very fortunate to have Pierre as our leader, coach and mentor”

Elsa Cabral, VP Client Services.

Tanya Martin, VP of Laboratory Operations

“I’ve had the opportunity to work with Pierre as a colleague on LifeLabs’ Executive Leadership Team" .. "Foremost, he is a passionate leader, committed to creating a culture of continuous improvement.  In this regard, his experience at Toyota Motor Corporation is clearly an asset as he regularly brings the wisdom of one of the world’s most renowned organizations to LifeLabs and the laboratory industry in Canada”.  “Pierre is constantly refreshing the company’s technology platforms to exploit advantages while ensuring LifeLabs stays shy of the ‘bleeding edge’”. “He has led the integration of several major laboratory disciplines to multiple new sites, bringing hundreds of employees together under a single roof with new leadership, new processes and new technologies. Pierre is a strategic leader, listens carefully while ensuring he is heard, and respectfully challenges the status quo.  He has helped to lead and manage the significant change LifeLabs’ people have undergone during two major acquisitions/integrations" .. "Pierre makes considerable time to develop future leaders, including guiding top performers to work in other parts of the organization for the greater good.  In my view, this is job one”.

Doug Buchanan, Advisor & Director

" I met Pierre in 2009 while he was VP of Manufacturing, Lean Implementation for Novartis Consumer Healthcare (NCH) and I was reporting dotted line to him as Site Head for the Novartis Nyon site.

During two years, we delivered one of my best career achievements in the healthcare industry" 

"Pierre achieved improvements in OEE by over 100% and employee engagement by more than 50% to 70%" 

 "Pierre demonstrated critical thinking skills by creating and deploying a large program to 3 major global sites (~2000 employees) while maintaining the support of key functions such as Quality, Engineering and Regulatory.

Pierre was successful in influencing each plant agenda to drive this program and yield the improvement needed to meet the division's aggressive goals” 

"His approach was driven through people within his organization and to the different levels down to operators. Pierre brought in a very clear and experience/picture-driven approach to Novartis, which relied heavily on the participation of the different plant management teams. With this, he got the engagement of local management to bring about important cultural and performance changes"

Esteban Uriarte, Head of Nyon Site.

I appreciated Pierre's emphasis on ensuring that his lean work would drive bottom-line cash and cost results. His efforts really helped our organization see that we could do things differently to improve operations and expand our capacity without additional capital investments simply by approaching our work differently. As a result, we were able to handle significant volume increases in our facilities without capital expansion, and that delivered real margin improvement.

He is a strong leader and can see the possibility/potential in things.

Martin Layding CFO at a Carlyle-backed portfolio company 

Pierre is one of the best experts I have come across in Lean Manufacturing and Process Excellence. He is able to combine a deep knowledge of this area with a very engaging management style. He conducts his business in such a way as to get people to become self-motivated to improve. This is the legacy that I have witnessed in Bausch and Lomb.

Frank O'Regan, Chairman, Investor, Non-Executive Director

I have known Pierre for over 10 years and have been impressed with Pierre's deep understanding of the lean/team manufacturing culture and his effective methods for implementing this type of operating system in various international settings, be it greenfield or brownfield locations.  Pierre has an engaging communication style that allows him to assert his ideas creatively from the floor to the boardroom.

Dennis Dougherty, President and COO at Karma Automotive LLC

Pierre was a valued colleague to me on the Novartis OTC, Global Manufacturing and Supply Leadership team. Well-respected as a collaborative and inspirational leader, Pierre generated millions of dollars in cost savings by partnering with the plants to improve their operations.

An expert in lean tools, Pierre's leadership style and multilingual skills allowed him to quickly build trust and respect at all levels of the supply chain and shop floor. Leveraging such tools as Standardized Work to create stability. Problem-solving to improve capability and SMED Single Minute Exchange of Dies to reduce changeover time allowed the plants to create increased capacity, which allowed for a nimble and efficient supply chain.

Pierre can be counted on to create the right culture on the shop floor between employees and management. His leadership style, expertise and integrity provide results that offer any company a competitive advantage.

Lori Roland, Vice President Program Management | Change & Transformation | Chief of Staff |