Salvatore Leone

My coaching role began in 2018 when I realized the young professionals could use some structured guidance. I began structuring weekly 1:1 sessions with the young professionals. This grew to then coaching my entire team over time. It became one of the more rewarding aspects of my corporate career. Now, I founded Elevate by Being, LLC where I love serving my senior clients as a Coach. My methods and proprietary tools are based on 24 years of corporate LEAN, Kaizen and other proven systems that made me successful in the industrial landscape.

Joined the company in 2017 as a Project Manager and rose to Customer Team Associate Director with P&L responsibility during a 2021 restructure. Owned the operational growth of our major OEM customer business from $15M to $83M between 2017 and 2024. Turned around a troubled major platform launch and drove $6M in profitability improvement through continuous improvement. Our customer team earned 6 consecutive Supplier of the Year awards from this OEM — the last 3 under my leadership. Won and led the kickoff of a new advanced-technology program (the first business award for that product), led stra