Thilak Pushpakumara

Thilak Pushpakumara

Thilak Pushpakumara is the Managing Director of Lean Solutions (Pvt) Ltd, a corporate trainer, TPM and Lean Management consultant.

He is a Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) accredited Total Productive Maintenance & Management (TPM) Instructor , certified Lean Master Black Belt and Lean Master Coach(Japan)  and a certified trainer & facilitator on gaining change skills by Spenser Johnson Partners, USA. He has been intensively trained in Japan on TPM, TQM, TPS and Company Wide Problem Solving and also has been certified on lean manufacturing at University of Michigan, MI, USA, and trained on lean supply chain, lean in service organization and lean in sales in Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), USA and Lean Enterprise Academy, UK. He was trained by DuPont Safety Resources, USA on Managing Safety Systems that work for operations managers with audit training and also on train the trainer by internationally acclaimed Bob Pike Group, USA.

Thilak has 20 years of hands on experience acquired through success in a number of senior managerial positions in the field of manufacturing and has gained a wealth of experience working closely with world’s leading consultants in Japan and  USA and currently  global lean leaders. In TPM and lean implementation at Unilever Sri Lanka and Loadstar (Pvt) Ltd. Thilak has trained more than 30,000 executives and managers at deferent levels of 300 leading organizations in Sri Lanka and overseas. He certified more than 1000 manufacturing professionals as TPM practitioners, lean practitioners and advance 5S instructors in Sri Lanka and overseas. He has submitted few technical papers on TPM, Lean and Quality Management for international forums.

Thilak was Former General Manager, Productivity Improvement and Training & Development of Loadstar (Pvt) Ltd and former Plant Manager, Unilever Sri Lanka. Currently functions as the CEO of the Institute of Lean Management (Pvt) Ltd and shared his experiences and the profound knowledge as corporate trainer & consultant with leading manufacturing organizations since 2009.