ABSTRACT
Gary Santorella, owner and president of Interactive Consulting, is a Lean implementation, team building, strategic planning, and partnering facilitator, executive coach, and corporate instructor who has worked almost exclusively in the construction industry since 1996. He has pioneered a method of assessing construction teams at the job site and top organizational levels– in accordance with Lean principles– with the goal of building nimble, efficient, flexible, and functional work groups. He has worked at job sites and companies across the country as well as Canada and Europe. His client list includes Turner Construction, Rosendin Electric, Swinerton Builders, Ballast Nedam, Hensel-Phelps Construction, McCarthy Construction, Pan-Pacific Plumbing, the State Seismic Program of California (DGS), Vanir Construction, KCS (Kajima Construction) West, St. Joseph's Health Care System of California, the Port of Seattle, MacDonald-Miller Facilities Solutions, PSF Mechanical, The Irvine Company, MVE Architects, Western National Construction, Traylor Bros.
