About ConsultFactor
The program management and fractional operations leadership arm of the Exceleor LLC family of companies.
We Consult, Lead, and Leave You Better
ConsultFactor was founded on a simple premise: mid-market manufacturers and industrial companies deserve the same caliber of operational leadership as Fortune 500 enterprises — without the $300K+ annual commitment of a full-time executive hire.
We are NOT a staffing company. We don't place people permanently. Our operators embed with your team for a defined engagement, drive transformation from the front lines, build documented processes, train your people, and transition out — leaving sustainable systems behind.
Every engagement is measured by outcomes, not hours. We track KPIs, report results transparently, and hold ourselves accountable to the same standards we set for your operations.
Leadership Is Mentorship
The only question worth asking is this: Can we influence positive change here?
The Pattern Principle
Reality is shaped by patterns — and patterns are shaped by focus. Most operational failures are not random events. They are patterns that went unrecognized, or were recognized and left unchanged. The same audit finding surfaces in three consecutive cycles. The same supplier variance repeats. The same workaround quietly becomes standard practice.
Identify the pattern. Utilize the pattern. Create a better pattern. Change the pattern — change the reality.
We don’t arrive with a prewritten solution. We arrive with the discipline to see what is actually happening, trace it to its origin, and build something better in its place.
Focus Is Everything
Where you put your attention is where your results will land — positive or negative. We ask every client — and ourselves — three questions before any engagement begins:
What is your habit?
Systems run on habit. What is yours actually producing?
Where is your focus?
Not where you intend it to be. Where it actually is.
What are you passionate about?
Because passion determines where focus returns when pressure arrives.
The answers to these three questions tell us more about an organization’s trajectory than any audit finding ever could.
The Customer vs. The Client
The customer is for a day. The client is for a lifetime.
This is not a philosophy about sales. It is a philosophy about responsibility. A customer relationship ends at the invoice. A client relationship is measured by what the organization looks like after we leave — whether the habits are stronger, the patterns are healthier, and the people can sustain what was built without us.
We build for the lifetime. That is where we put our focus. That is the change we want to see in reality.
The Harder Lesson
In decades of combined experience across Fortune 500 supplier chains, aerospace OEM environments, ISO audits, and operational transformations, one truth has emerged with more clarity than almost any other:
Sometimes it is more important to know what not to do than what to do — or how to do it.
Leaders shape you. Some teach you through excellence. Some teach you through failure. Both are valid. Both are real. We carry those lessons — and we pass them on. There is a fundamental difference between genuine systemic change and a well-managed fire drill that looks like transformation. We know the difference. We have stood inside both. And we will tell you which one you are looking at — even when it is uncomfortable to hear.
The Serving Spirit
A posture that defines the Exceleor team — across every brand, every engagement, every client relationship.
Client-Focused, Always
We return to one question: What does the client actually need? Not what is easiest to deliver. Not what looks best in a report. What will change their reality for the better.
High Energy, Earned
The energy we bring is the natural state of people who are genuinely passionate about what they do. It sustains through the hardest parts of an engagement because it comes from conviction.
Experience That Anticipates
Active third-party auditors, certified lead auditors, Supplier Quality leaders at aerospace OEMs, Lean Six Sigma Black Belts, Fortune 500 practitioners. That depth lets us see what is coming before it arrives.
Mentorship as Practice
We believe in leaving every client stronger than we found them — in capability, in habit, in team culture, and in organizational identity. That is the difference between influence and transaction.
Shaped by the Full Truth
The leaders who shaped us — through excellence and through failure — are both present in how we show up. We embrace both. And we bring both to bear in every collaboration.
Exceleor is not a firm that consults. It is a network of leaders who mentor — practitioners who have lived inside the problems their clients face, who have learned what not to do as much as what to do, and who believe that the most powerful force in any organization is a pattern deliberately changed.
Operators, Not Theorists
Our network of 9+ executives brings hands-on experience from the shop floor to the boardroom.
Program Managers
PMP-certified leaders with 15+ years managing complex programs in manufacturing environments.
Operations Executives
Former COOs, VPs, and Plant Managers who've led teams of 50-500+ in production settings.
Quality & CI Experts
Master Black Belts, ASQ-certified professionals, and ISO lead auditors.
Technology Leaders
CTOs and IT directors with deep ERP, MES, and Industry 4.0 implementation experience.
Senior Operators With Real Manufacturing Experience
No MBAs with theories — real operators who have built, scaled, and turned around real companies.
Senior Operations Executives
Fractional COO / VP Operations
25+ years running manufacturing P&Ls. Former plant managers, VPs, and COOs who have scaled companies from startup to $100M+.
Industries: Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial
Program & Project Leaders
PMO & Program Directors
PMP-certified program directors who have delivered $200M+ in capital projects, ERP rollouts, and turnarounds on time and on budget.
Industries: Capital Projects, Technology, Construction
Quality & Continuous Improvement Leaders
Fractional VP Quality & CI
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belts and former quality directors who have built audit-ready quality systems and CI cultures from the ground up.
Industries: Medical, Food & Beverage, Defense
Supply Chain & Procurement Operators
Fractional VP Supply Chain
Supply chain leaders who have re-engineered procurement, logistics, and supplier quality for resilient, cost-optimized operations.
Industries: Manufacturing, Distribution, Energy
How We Operate
Discipline Over Drama
We bring structured methodologies and proven frameworks — not buzzwords and slide decks. Disciplined execution is how outcomes happen.
Process Is the Product
A consultant who leaves without leaving processes behind has failed. We build systems that sustain results long after we transition out.
Honest Assessments
We tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you in the right direction.
Part of the Exceleor LLC Family
ConsultFactor is the human leadership layer that activates the full Exceleor ecosystem.
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Program & Project Management Leadership (You are here)
Where is your focus right now?
What pattern is running your organization? What reality do you want to build?
If you are ready to change the pattern — we have been here before. And we are ready to build it with you.