Tom Heine
VP, Leadership and Organization Development
Esterline

Tom Heine has led Esterline’s leader development and OD functions since joining the company in 2000. He has an extensive background in general HR, OD, operations management, and as a business owner.

In the last ten years, Esterline has sustained an annual growth rate in the high teens as revenues have grown from $300M to $1.5B. It has expanded its operations from 9 sites in 2 countries in 2000 to more than 40 sites in 7 countries today with approximately half of its 10,000 employees residing outside the US. With this expanding size and complexity, Esterline has had to significantly grow its capability in the areas of leader identification, selection, assessment and development as well as all areas of OD.
Prior to Esterline, Tom worked for Honeywell for 12 years in a variety of Operations and HR roles in their Defense and Commercial Aviation businesses as well as a two year HR leadership assignment in their corporate office. He had P&L responsibility as owner of a small manufacturing business for 3 years and was the HR Director for a large vertically integrated Midwestern steel manufacturer for 8 years. He has had extensive international experience with both Esterline and Honeywell.
Tom has spoken at several national HR conventions and has authored several magazine articles on lean manufacturing most notably for the Association of Manufacturing Excellence’s Target journal and the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Lean Directions periodical. He also participated in the development and writing of an award winning Harvard Business School case study on the role of lean vis a vis ERP systems. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University and a Master’s degree in HR/OD from the University of Colorado.
 

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