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Triche Guenin
Management Consultant
President
Partners Through Change, Inc.
Denver, CO

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Ms. Guenin's experiences over the past 20 years have varied across a number of industries. As founder, president, and working consultant of Partners Through Change, Inc., a change management- consulting firm, she partners with organizations to streamline their business systems and operational processes. She has helped companies develop their mission/vision and associated strategies, enter new markets, develop and introduce new products/services, merge multiple cultures, and navigate through downsizing activities. Her most recent emphasis has been in facilitating firms though the registration process to ISO 90000 (international quality management system standard) as well as the recently developed TL 9000 requirements for suppliers to the telecom industry.

Triche provides many management consulting services, but her strengths lie in the following areas: looking at business opportunities holistically (e.g. strategically, operationally, and from an integrated information system view), facilitating problem solving activities, identifying and eliminating unnecessary work, developing new processes with associated roles and responsibilities, creating new organization designs, modeling new cultural behaviors, coaching leadership, training on technical topics (e.g. process mapping, internal auditing, Statistical Process Control) and soft issues(e.g. team building, resistance to change, conflict resolution), and managing large projects throughout implementation. This last service, managing large projects throughout implementation, greatly differentiates her from other consultants. Instead of preparing an analytical report to gather dust on a shelf, her passion evolves from actually getting into the trenches with clients and helping them implement changes identified during analysis and further refined with cross-functional teams.

Triche earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters degree in Industrial Management from the University of Dallas. In addition, Ms. Guenin holds several technical certifications including: Certified Quality Manager from American Society of Quality (ASQ), ISO 9000/TL 9000 Lead Assessor from Stat-A-Matrix, National Association of Communication Systems Engineers (NACSE), Certified Inventory Manager from American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS), and 4M Mod II (Micro Matic Methods of Motion) from the MTM Association. She is currently working on her Six Sigma Black Belt Certification and becoming a Colorado Performance Excellence Examiner.

During her first ten years out of school and prior to entering the consulting field on her own, she held the following positions: Senior Consultant, Gemini Consulting; Senior Industrial Engineer, Boeing Electronics; Industrial Engineer, KODAK; Production Supervisor & Manufacturing Engineer, Owens-Illinois, Inc.; and Industrial Engineer (intern) at two locations for ALCOA.

Her community service activities range from leadership programs (e.g. Leadership Denver, 50 for Colorado) to Quality related activities (e.g. development of Colorado Performance Excellence Award, evaluator for Denver Business Ethics Award, examiner for Customer Service Award through the Colorado Springs Better Business Bureau, judge for ASQ Quality Grants) to community stewardship (e.g. neighborhood councilperson, business rep for decision making council of local elementary school, boardmember for Transformations educational program).

Ms. Guenin has extensive experience implementing change initiatives across multiple industries. Her services include, but are not restricted to performing gaps analysis, facilitating problem solving meetings, training employees, coaching senior management, conducting planning sessions, providing subject matter expertise, and role modeling project management skills. A partial listing of her diverse client base is as follows: Air Products, Anheuser-Busch, Apple Computers, Bell Atlantic, Bell South, Bristol Meyer Squibb, Dupont, Genie Overhead Door, HCI Inc., Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel, Public Service Electric & Gas, Reliance MetalCenter, Rocky Mountain Orthodontics, Time Warner, Warren Trade School.

For more information on her methodologies and approach to managing change, refer to website www.partnersthroughchange.com.