Alison Beard-Gunter, Thermo
Alison Beard-Gunter
Transformation Director
Thermo

Alison is an experienced senior leader, consultant, and practitioner in Lean, Operational Excellence, and Digital Transformation. Her expertise lies in transforming businesses by aligning strategies and organizational goals to achieve significant results in bulk processing, manufacturing/filling operations, packaging, and supply chains. She has a particular focus on deploying enablers to engage cultures and improve systems, and processes. She has a proven track record in project program design, deployment, and delivery, enabling leaders to balance transformation and transactional workflows for effective problem-solving and structured improvement with a pragmatic, hands-on approach. Her specialized areas of expertise and experience are in FMCG beverage, nuclear industry, specialist automotive, public housing, life sciences, non profit and more recently, sterile vaccine project delivery and operational readiness to manufacture. Alison is widely recognized as a practitioner, an academic, and thought leader in UK manufacturing.