Bryan T. Blunt is a veteran operations leader, process improvement expert, author, and founder and president of Quality Works Consulting, LLC. He is an accomplished team facilitator who has created, chaired and mentored teams at all business levels, from product improvement teams to councils and leadership committees leading business-wide change initiatives. A skilled communicator, Bryan has trained hundreds of personnel from dozens of companies in process capability improvement methods.

Bryan served as director of quality for Textron Systems Corporation, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) defense industry, homeland security and aerospace company headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts and director of quality for Textron’s famous Lycoming Engines facility in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. At Lycoming, he led the quality improvement turnaround that positioned the business on the road to premier after years of product recalls, labor unrest and dissatisfied customers had eroded that company’s profitability and threatened its viability. Bryan also served as director of supply chain quality at the Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas.  There he led the transformation of the supplier quality program and implementation of the first large-scale deployment of Six Sigma in Textron's history, an effort that brought problem-solving empowerment to scores of personnel while generating millions of dollars in savings. Prior to his time with Cessna, Bryan was a manufacturing engineer, senior quality engineer and quality systems manager with AlliedSignal, then one of the world's largest industrial corporations, consisting of aerospace, automotive and engineered materials sectors. While at AlliedSignal, he was an early contributor to several key initiatives including initial ISO9001 certification, Total Quality Management and Six Sigma.

Bryan is a fellow with the American Society for Quality and an award winning recipient of three Six Sigma Black Belts.  He holds a BS in manufacturing technology from Southwestern College, a BA in management from the University of Phoenix, and an MBA from Western International University.