Basil Elyas

Professional Experience

Basil Elyas is Certified Six Sigma Black belt (CSSBB), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified Prosci Change Management Practitioner. He is a very committed and focused consultant and instructor with a very successful record of accomplishments with over twenty five years of experience in continuous improvement, process excellence, and complex project management. During this time he has excelled in leadership, mentoring and teaching, project management, process improvement, quality management, analytics, and strategic planning. Some of his major strengths include innovative thinking, strong team play and leadership, attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and creative problem solving.
Highlights
+ American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, with almost 25 years working in quality and process improvement.
+ Project Management Institute (PMI) Certified Project management Professional (PMP) extensively experienced in simultaneously managing and leading teams on varied strategic initiatives and routinely meeting deadlines under pressure.
+ Prosci Certified Change Management Practitioner.
+ Demonstrated inspiring leader in strategic planning and taking initiative and communicating merit of purposes and recruiting others to follow.
+ Has excellent and creative problem solving skills. Routinely finding solutions and making suggestions which are “out of the box”.
+ Very experienced in developing metrics, processes, and trackers to timely monitor and report on projects.
+ Extensively experienced managing and reporting on risks on strategic initiatives.
+ Extensively experienced in preparing presentations and public speaking.
+ Fluent in spoken Arabic and basic French.

Current Courses

• Applied Lean
• Corrective and Preventive Action
• Lean 101
• Lean Foundations
• Leading Lean
• Lean Problem-Solving Tools
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
• Root Cause Analysis
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Transition
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

IoE Categories of Excellence

• Operations
• Strategy
• Measurements & Results