About Rick Tucci
President and Founder of Leap Technologies
Rick Tucci leads the ongoing development of Leap Technologies innovative Change Acceleration Tools. A 20-year veteran of the performance improvement field, Rick brings a unique combination of research knowledge and field application to the design of fast-cycle change tools.
Rick works extensively with client senior leadership teams to help them "cut through the fog" of complexity on projects and to design Rapid Improvement Sprints. His client experience includes Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, Mesaba Airlines, Motorola, Proctor & Gamble and Whirlpool among many engagements. He is currently engaged in bringing Change Acceleration concepts and tools to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Prior to founding Leap Technologies, Rick was a senior executive at the Forum Corporation, an international training and consulting firm. While at Forum, Rick developed his experience in the use of total quality management, cycle time reduction and action learning.
Rick attended the University of Chicago where he received an MBA in entrepreneurial studies and strategy formulation. Rick has traveled extensively, applying the craft of change acceleration across Europe and Asia. Rick has recently been concentrating on the application of knowledge management tools in business environments.
Contact Rick at rtucci@actionworkout.com or phone: 708.366.9295
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About John Tucci
Senior Vice President and Founding Partner
John Tucci has more than 15 years experience in the areas of business strategy execution, process improvement and change management. As a founding partner of Leap Technologies, John has focused on the development and implementation of Leap Technologies' proprietary Action Workout System for accelerating strategy execution and business process improvement.
In this role, he has led and coached more than 300 management and employee teams through Action Workout with clients such as Abbott Laboratories, Bank One, Motorola, Steelcase, United Airlines, The U.S. Postal Service, Walgreen Company and Waste Management.
In addition to leading client engagements, John is responsible for directing Leap Technologies' marketing effort and for development and coaching of Leap representatives across the country.
Prior to founding Leap Technologies, John was a senior account executive at the Forum Corporation, an international training and consulting firm. While there, John designed and delivered training systems to support cultural change efforts. His clients included Abbott Laboratories, First Chicago Corporation, Ford Motor Credit, General Electric and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance.
John is a graduate of Amherst College where he earned recognition as an All-American football player. Currently he is an avid and oft-frustrated golfer.
Contact John at jtucci@actionworkout.com or phone: 269.383.3400
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About Mike Pecoraro
Senior Vice President and Founding Partner
Mike Pecoraro heads up the Leap Technologies' Action Workout Coaches Network. In this role, Mike oversees the training and certification of all Workout Coaches. In addition, he is responsible for executing ongoing enhancements to the Action Workout System and communications to the network of Workout Coaches.
Mike has been in the change acceleration business for more than 15 years, holding key change agent positions in several Fortune 100 companies prior to joining Leap Technologies. At Waste Management, Mike led the company's global business process improvement initiative, which produced savings in excess of $100 million.
While at Waste Management, Mike implemented a first-generation of the Action Workout System across the entire organization. This involved more than 10,000 employees in 12 countries.
Mike is a senior resource for leading sprint planning and design meetings as well leadership jumpstart events with client leadership teams. Recent engagements include work with Standard Register, Alliant Foodservice, Sears, Molex, Anixter and ATL Ultrasound.
Mike attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio where he received his M. Ed in Career and Technology Education. Mike takes his role as a coaches' coach very seriously, even when he's at the ballpark, where he is a veteran Little League baseball manager.
Contact Mike at mikep@actionworkout.com or phone: 630.420.2708
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About Jim Peters
Senior Partner and Healthcare Practice Leader
Jim Peters brings over 20 years of financial management and consulting experience to Leap Technologies. As Healthcare Practice Leader, Jim has led client engagements at HealthPartners, Kaiser Permanente, St. Mary’s Duluth Clinic Health System and Prevea Clinics and ThedaCare.
His credentials include extensive experience in financial management as a Division Controller, Regional Controller and CFO in the environmental services and transportation industries. In that time, Jim managed financial transaction operations as well as pre-acquisition due diligence, post-acquisition integration, strategic planning and balanced scorecard development and implementation, much of it as part of successful turnaround teams.
Jim is one of the most experienced practitioners of the Action Workout System, with almost 700 teams and millions of dollars in results under his belt. He has also done extensive work in process reengineering, policy development, executive skills coaching and creative problem solving.
Since joining Leap, Jim's work includes both stateside and overseas assignments with the Department of Defense Change Management Center. He has managed and facilitated engagements covering electronic commerce development, business model redesign, knowledge management, Performance-Based Services Acquisition (PBSA), data interoperability and strategic supplier alliances. Recent work includes the application of Lean Design and Breakthrough Innovation principles on core processes in the Healthcare industry.
Jim’s most recent work in the commercial and healthcare sectors have included serving as the project leader in a Lean Breakthrough Workout Sprint in the maintenance group at Mesaba Airlines, a full deployment of the Action Workout System at Thedacare, a leading healthcare system in Northeastern Wisconsin, and the development of a comprehensive operational efficiency strategy using Lean tools at ATC, a nationwide operator of public transit systems.
A graduate of Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois, Jim and his family live just outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contact Jim directly at jpeters@actionworkout.com or call 952.848.5200
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