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Our Leadership

Leigh Smith

Leigh

Managing Director

Expertise

  • Operational excellence
  • Programme management
  • Supplier development
  • Strategy and innovation
  • Manufacturing engineering
  • Mechanical engineering

Accreditations

ChPP, CEng FIMechE, CSSBB

Languages

English, Chinese

Profile

Leigh is an award-winning executive and trusted advisor who provides integrated consulting and interim leadership to turnaround global industrial operations in crisis and execute strategic transformations for growth. With senior leadership experience across the automotive, semiconductor, and power generation sectors worldwide, he leverages deep cross-functional expertise to maximize operational performance and profitability.

He excels at taking decisive control of turnaround scenarios, diagnosing root causes, implementing recovery plans, and stabilizing faltering operations. His ability to lead complex, cross-cultural teams is critical for stabilizing distressed sites, realigning global standards, and swiftly restoring customer and supplier confidence. This decisive action halts financial losses and secures critical client relationships.

For long-term growth, Leigh designs and embeds the operational strategies, excellence frameworks, and leadership capabilities required to scale. He transforms strategic plans into a measurable competitive advantage by building resilient, high-performing systems that sustain long-term excellence and market leadership.

Leigh holds a mechanical engineering degree, a master’s in manufacturing engineering from Cranfield University, and an Executive MBA from the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).

Our Team

Broad vision

Precise execution

Structured approach

Agile adaptation

Global mindset

Local insight

Elite performers

Humble guides

Team Member Profile – Sample

Leigh Smith

Regina

Principal – Organisational Transformation

China

Expertise

  • Project management
  • Programme management
  • Accounting
  • HR
  • Occupational psychology
  • Supplier development

Accreditations

CIPD, PMP

Languages

Chinese, English

Profile

Regina is an experienced consultant specializing in the critical people-strategy components of operational turnarounds and strategic transformations for global industrial firms. She ensures that an organization’s people are aligned to overcome crisis and drive growth.

She leverages a unique blend of expertise in occupational psychology and certified financial acumen to directly link leadership initiatives to operational and financial performance. Unlike traditional HR consultants, her background in project cost analysis and budget execution allows her to diagnose organizational gaps with a rigorous, data-driven lens and design strategies that are both psychologically sound and financially astute.

In a turnaround scenario, Regina diagnoses the root cultural, and leadership causes of failure, rapidly stabilizing teams by assessing capabilities, identifying skill gaps, and implementing targeted development. Her financial rigor ties every initiative directly to cost-saving and performance recovery goals.

For future growth, she architects the leadership pipelines and cultural frameworks required to scale, designing competency models for operational excellence and implementing development centres that build future-ready talent. This builds the organizational resilience and cross-cultural collaboration essential for sustaining long-term excellence.

World-Renowned Standards of Excellence

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Lean Six Sigma Certified
MSP
APM
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CEIBS

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