Adam Zak is the founder and CEO of Adam Zak Executive Search, a specialist leadership advisory firm. He delights in discovering and delivering uniquely talented executives who’ve demonstrated exceptional success in operations, global supply chain, Lean continuous improvement (CI), Lean Start-up, and operational excellence (OpEx) roles. Even a CEO or two every now and then… Adam’s impact on organizations quickly becomes apparent as the leaders he identifies for his clients consistently go on to make their new companies, well, simply excellent. Clients include a diverse mix of Fortune 1000, private equity, and entrepreneurial organizations in the U.S. and internationally. Adam works across multiple industry sectors - manufacturing, services, healthcare - because authentic Lean leadership can drive sustained growth and profitability in virtually any enterprise. Adam co-authored the book Simple Excellence: Organizing & Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2010). He is the architect of Simple Excellence™ in Leadership Selection, an innovative, highly-personalized management selection framework. Adam’s creative methodology for recruiting exceptional individuals, custom-built (VOC) for each and every client, is trademarked as PDCAsearch™. Earlier in his career Adam earned his accounting degree from the University of Illinois, became a CPA, and worked with KPMG in both consulting and assurance roles. He subsequently held a variety of financial and executive management positions with venture capital, innovative start-up and Fortune-ranked companies in Chicago, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.