Grow Faster. Work Smarter.
Win Customers.
Utilize Lean Thinking in Your Organization to Drive Operational Excellence and Success
✔ Enhance Customer Experience
✔ Upgrade the Quality of Your Services and Products
✔ Build a team that owns problems, and solves them
✔ Deliver measurable results to the bottom line
Does This Sound Familiar?
Improvement efforts launched, but never stuck
You've invested in change. The results didn't follow.
Inconsistent quality of products or services
Customer complaints keep coming. Teams are dealing with the same problems over and over, and the rework never stops. Root causes aren’t hasn't been being addressed.
Productivity has flatlined
Your people are working harder than ever and the numbers haven't moved.
The answers are already inside your organization.
We help turn them into action.
The Osterling Difference
We Adapt to Your Environment.
Not the Other Way Around.
Most consultants show up with a fixed playbook. We show up with 25+ years of hands-on experience and spend time learning about your operation first, your team, your workflows, your customers, and your constraints. Only then do we start discussing options on how to approach your unique issues. That's why our improvements fit, instead of creating new problems.
Your Team Learns By Doing,
Not Just Watching
We don't just make recommendations, or changes, and leave. We help your team understand how to address real-world problems through the application of Lean Principles and Tools on your actual processes. Our goal is to help your people identify waste, solve problems, and lead improvements themselves. That's the only kind of change that lasts.
You See Results Quickly
— And They Hold
We focus early energy on high-impact, achievable wins - the kind that build momentum and demonstrate results within weeks, not quarters. And because your team is involved from day one, the gains don't fade when we leave. They own the improvement.
Trusted by Schneider Electric, Buck Knives, Philips, Cardinal Health, General Dynamics, Borrego Solar, Southern California Edison, Unisys and many more!
Our Services
Hands-On Training & Application
Learn lean by applying it to real challenges.
Lean Transformation Roadmapping
Chart a practical path for your lean journey.
Organizational
Assessment
Uncover gaps and opportunities across your operation.
Executive & Team
Coaching
Develop problem-solvers at every level of your organization.
Strategy Deployment & Planning
Align your team around clear, measurable goals.
Event Facilitation (Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen)
Eliminate waste and drive rapid process improvement.
Not sure which service fits your situation?
Client Stories
"The ideology introduced by Mike has had a profound and lasting impact on nearly every aspect of our operations, and I can say without a doubt that his work is the greatest single investment I have ever made in my company. Mike’s knowledge, professionalism, interpersonal skills and determination produced results that far exceeded my expectations."
★★★★★
Nate Mullen
President
Unique Lighting Systems, Inc.
“Pall Medical’s success in implementing lean was rooted in how Mike engaged us, from senior leadership to the shop floor. He was effective at a strategic level (in helping us define a plan) as well as at a tactical level (in facilitating our actual transformation) as he led us from conveyor assembly lines to cell-based work flow. Mike’s practical approach focused on adapting the lean philosophy and tools to our unique environment.”
★★★★★
Miguel Casabosch
Plant Manager
Pall Corporation
"Mike is an engaging and knowledgeable educator. He has a natural way to relate the material to the students. There are many educators out there that know the subject matter but can't relate it to the students. The ability to reach the audience and draw them into the subject matter is the key difference and an area of strength for Mike!"
★★★★★
Joseph Moore
Director of Manufacturing
Glidewell Dental Lab
Our Client Results
Engineering Plan-Set Creation
93%
Lead Time Reduction (27 days → 2 days)
New- Hire Requisition Process
53%
Lead Time Reduction (77 days → 36 days)
Cost Estimating Process
60%
Improvement in Estimate Accuracy
(±25% variation to ±10% variation)
Production of Electrical Products
99%
Throughput Time Reduction (3 days to 15 minutes)
Our Resources
"Karen and Mike put mapping in its proper perspective as a methodology for getting high-performing teams to see waste, share a future state vision, and build meaningful actions that are carried out with passion and purpose."
Jeffrey Liker
Author, The Toyota Way
"This is the first [book] that will actually give the reader a step-by-step process for facilitating events from planning through completion and follow-up. This book is a must resource for all Lean experts and facilitators."
Edward G. Brekke
Global Director, Schneider Production Systems, Schneider Electric
"Karen Martin and Mike Osterling have captured a succinct genealogy for Lean thinking and combined that with real working tools that will help orchestrate very effective continuous improvement events."
CJ Buck
CEO/President, Buck Knives
A Team That's Been Inside the Operations They Improve.
Osterling Consulting was founded in 2000 with one purpose: to help organizations build a self-sustaining culture of operational excellence.
Our team of associates brings hands-on experience from across manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We work at every level of the organization and adapt to the unique needs of each client — not the other way around.
Our engagements combine coaching, guidance, event facilitation, and training. The emphasis is always on learning by doing, building capability your team keeps long after the engagement ends.
