Fred Herbert is a bestselling author, international speaker and recognized as an influential leader with unrelenting commitment to process improvement and value creation. He has an impressive track record in building and cultivating cohesive, quality-oriented, high-performance teams. Fred is a Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Manager of Quality and Operational Excellence and author of the Amazon bestseller "Business Turnaround Blueprint" and "Business For Sale Blueprint". Operations executive and turnaround specialist with 40+ years of experience transforming operations to obtain optimum quality, efficiency, and profitability. Expertise in partnering with the senior leadership team to drive Lean/Six Sigma initiatives that have consistently achieved improvements across engineering, quality, production, process development, and service delivery functions. Fred is a sought-after consultant and speaker on topics that range from business turnaround to process documentation and workforce organization. He played an integral role in helping a local organization win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and served two years as a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner and two years as a Texas Award for Performance Excellence Examiner.