Rebecca A. Morgan, President of Fulcrum ConsultingWorks Inc., is a manufacturing strategy consultant skilled at clarifying complex ideas, finding creative solutions to problems, and developing and leveraging operational excellence. She works with manufacturers to position their operations for strategic advantage, enabling predictable, repeatable, reliable and profitable delivery of brand promise to their markets.

Her ability to work as effectively with off-shift workers as with owners and C-level executives and her 30+ years professional experience combine to support both strategic vision and daily execution.

Morgan's experience spans Operations, Supply Chain Management, Accounting Systems, Information Systems, Strategic Planning, Consulting and Academe.

She not only helps others do it; she's done it herself.

She has been directly responsible for cost and revenue centers in single and multi-plant situations.

As a member of the management team Morgan led and coordinated operations support to Stouffer Foods' introduction of the wildly successful Lean Cuisine brand (demand exceeded forecast by an order of magnitude) while contributing to product and distribution rationalization associated with construction of a second plant.

Following that Morgan helped prepare TRW's then $300MM Casting Division for sale, subsequently playing a key role for Precision Castparts Corporation (PCC) in the turnaround of that acquisition.

Before that, as bank economist for Cleveland Trust (since acquired by Key Bank), she stood with a very small group who forecast the 20% prime interest rate that few thought could happen, but soon did.

Fresh out of graduate school Morgan was recruited by Perdue Farms to lead development and implementation of decision support processes and accounting systems. During that same time she was an adjunct assistant professor of Economics at Salisbury State University.

She's not only done it herself, she's helped others do it.

Following those successes, Morgan founded Fulcrum ConsultingWorks, Inc., the manufacturing operations consulting business that she has owned and operated since 1990. She has delivered targeted outcomes with both small privately-held firms and large corporations. Her clients include recognizable names like Avery-Dennison and Moen, and numerous lesser-known companies like HDT, Zircoa, and Kinetico.

She has credentials.

Ms. Morgan has BA and MS degrees in Economics and completed post-graduate work in Business Administration. She is Board Approved in Operations Management by the Society for Advancement of Consulting and is certified as a Fellow by The Association for Operations Management (APICS).

She actively contributes to the body of knowledge.

Contributing generously of her time to professional organizations, Morgan has chaired and served on several national APICS committees. She currently serves on the APICS CPIM Strategic Management of Resources certification committee, while serving as President of the Great Lakes Region of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) as well as the North American AME Strategic Lead - Products. Morgan is also Chair of the Entrepreneurs Association.

She supports media efforts to inform the audience about operational issues.

Highly respected business journal INC Magazine selected Morgan as its Operations Expert, a role she fulfilled for several years. In addition, her expertise has been tapped by numerous other well known national and industry publications, including Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Business Week, Dow-Jones Newswires, and Industry Week, as well as radio programs, on topics ranging from Lean Manufacturing to Steel Tariffs to B2B relationships.