Levent TurkPartner
A double degree qualified MBA who speaks 5 languages, including English and Japanese, Levent joined Duxinaroe as an equal shareholder in 2020.
Levent has >30 years of hands-on, senior leader experience including 16years at TOYOTA as production GM, Quality GM and TME country President. After his time at Toyota, Levent implemented Lean Transformations at Karsan and MAN Truck & Bus as board member and supported projects for companies such as VW, Renault, Claas, LC Waikiki and Toyota Boshoku. |
David BovisPartner
David is a time-served precision engineer and mould-maker who gained experience in 'WCM/Lean' change environments across Europe over >30yrs. He also holds a Masters in Applied Neuroscience.
David became operations director, consultant and advisor, working with regulated professional services companies like Grant Thornton. David established Duxinaroe in 2013, and has worked for over a decade to refine the BTFA product, joining forces with Levent in 2020, to bring it to market as a digital offering. |
“We’re a couple of guys, with a #BTFA world view from over 30years global manufacturing and engineering experience. We both studied philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, and we were crazy enough to combine our knowledge, spending years of our own time designing and creating an approach, that fixes a problem no one in the market really knows they have!“
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Why BTFA?This short video provides an insight into the experience and thinking that underpins the approach.
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“It is from our first-hand experience, that we recognised the need to focus on the mechanics of people, as much, if not more, than we had been taught to focus on process and technology – it was only after years of study that we were able to explain the people piece of the jigsaw, as the function and design of their brain... that’s when everything started to make sense ... now we're able to share our knowledge on a global scale through our online learning platform”
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“We’re not academics, we’re practitioners who have led companies, change programmes and training events ... we worked our way up from the shop-floor to become consultants, directors and advisors in global manufacturing and professional service organisations like Toyota and Grant Thornton. ... we’re as comfortable making a plastic injection mould tool or setting up a new factory as we are delivering operational due diligence for a deal, or teaching TPS and Lean”
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Team members
Colin Weemes
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Lean & Six Sigma Training / Delivery.
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Supporting the development of the Dux Method and BTFA, Colin has a Masters Degree from Hull in Applied Physics. During his career he was on the GEC-Marconi future leaders programme and was one of the youngest certified Master Black Belts at GE.
Subsequently Colin has had over 20 years' experience of hands on, practical experience in delivering Lean and Six Sigma projects. Colin specialises in Lean Six Sigma training and strategic consultancy worldwide. Highlighted Experience -Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. A qualified BSI instructor and assessor for the ILM Lean Six Sigma Programme which recently received an outstanding from its OFSTED assessment. -Trained in excess of 1250 Yellow Belts, 1800, Green Belts, 300 Black Belts and 30 Master Black Belts. -Helped develop and deliver the strategic rollout of Lean Six Sigma in a variety of organisations. Most recently at a UK based chemicals company and an Asia Pacific airline. -Cost management and delivery of continuous improvement activities. -Delivered lean awareness sessions to groups in excess of 200 for a large aerospace manufactures supply chain. -Coaching & development of Senior Executive teams in a variety of sectors across the globe. |
Carl Foster
BTFA Associate
Supporting the introduction of the Dux Method and BTFA in organisations looking for their next step toward sustainable high performance Carl holds a BA Hons in Business Management
Carl is a Lean and process excellence professional with 25 years experience spanning utilities, banking, telecoms, leisure and public sector industries.
Having worked at Senior levels across all these industries Carl has successfully implemented process excellence and lean methodologies to transform organisational results and long term performance.
Carl is a Lean and process excellence professional with 25 years experience spanning utilities, banking, telecoms, leisure and public sector industries.
Having worked at Senior levels across all these industries Carl has successfully implemented process excellence and lean methodologies to transform organisational results and long term performance.
Aybike Turk Castleberry
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Developer
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Aybike is an Industrial and Systems Engineer with a Master's Degree in the same discipline from Georgia Institute of Technology.
She has spent her career mostly in the US, focusing on project management, process improvement and transforming businesses using Lean. Aybike is currently working at Microsoft, helping businesses transform digitally in the ever changing world. Her passions include psychology, Lean and digital transformation. She joined Duxinaroe in 2021 to support the development of the Dux Method. |
Dr. Andrew Blatiak
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BTFA Ambassador
BSc, PhD, CMC, IIP 
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Andrew is a BTFA ambassador, delivering pedagogical advice, and supporting BTFA cohorts through their learning journey.
Andrew has started a number of successful businesses. The most successful grew to £5m within 2 years, holding national patents. He helped to set up the first and largest management consultancy in Central and Eastern Europe 1989 - 1993. Andrew taught at London Business School and Imperial College School of Management & Helped to start an MBA program in Central Europe. He also started the DBA and Diploma in Management Consulting in Central Europe. He was the Director of Knowledge Management, for ICL Fujitsu in Poland. Andrew trained Ministry officials prior to joining the EU – a project regarded as exemplary & advised the Czech and Romanian governments on foreign investment. He has been a consultant to multinationals in Central & Eastern Europe for marketing development, and he is a director of a Canadian fund manager investing into technology businesses in Central Europe. As project director with a leading multinational client, Andrew set up a factory in Katowice, Poland, manufacturing electronic components and employing 300 people. Awards & Appointments Sunday Times - Honeywell Innovation Award | National and international assessor for Business School Accreditation | Consultant for World Bank projects in Central Europe and Russia | Consultant in corporate restructuring projects in CEE with UNIDO | Director for EBRD projects in Russia and CEE | Visiting professor in management in Shanghai and Canberra and Tokyo | Tutor at Cambridge University in Entrepreneurship Andrew resides in Surrey, but works with Duxinaroe globally. |
