About Us
Lodestar Consulting, LLC is a niche consulting firm dedicated to helping small to mid-sized manufacturers and service businesses achieve sustainable growth by transforming operational challenges into opportunities. We specialize in integrating fact-based decision-making with reflective accountability to drive measurable results. As your trusted advisors, we deliver clarity, structure, and leadership, empowering you to focus on what truly matters—achieving your business objectives.
Our Unique Value
Operational Excellence
We bring decades of expertise in operations management, Lean Six Sigma, and crisis recovery. Whether addressing missed deliveries, high turnover, inefficiency, or scaling challenges, we provide tailored solutions that enhance your bottom line and streamline your processes.
Fractional Leadership Services
For businesses in need of experienced leadership without the overhead of full-time hires, we offer fractional operations, plant, and executive management services. Our experts step in to lead your teams, stabilize operations, and implement sustainable improvements, providing the high-level guidance you need to grow with confidence.
Agile and Traditional Project Management
From planning and execution to tracking and optimization, our project management expertise ensures your initiatives stay on time, within budget, and aligned with your strategic goals. We specialize in Agile project management, combining flexibility and efficiency to deliver value at every stage of your project lifecycle.
EOS Integration for Results-Driven Leadership
As experienced EOS Integrators, we provide the structure and accountability necessary for leadership teams to align, focus, and execute with confidence. Our approach fosters a culture of ownership, transparency, and results.
Tailored Business Solutions
We focus on the unique needs of small to mid-sized manufacturing and service businesses. Whether you’re looking to improve operational efficiency, tackle growth challenges, or navigate complex transitions, our customized solutions are designed to help you thrive in a competitive marketplace.
Strategic Crisis Management
When challenges arise, we guide you through the complexities of recovery. By reducing dependency on subcontracting and focusing on price and margin growth, we build resilience into your business model.
What Sets Us Apart
Client-Centric Approach: We integrate seamlessly with your team, becoming trusted advisors and confidants. Our clients value the relationships we build as much as the results we deliver.
Real-World Expertise: Our leadership has direct experience in manufacturing operations and business transformations. We’re not just theorists—we’ve walked in your shoes.
Commitment to Long-Term Success: Our solutions are designed to outlast our engagement. We aim to leave your business stronger, more focused, and better equipped for future challenges.
Results That Matter
Proven Track Record: We’ve helped clients recover lost revenue, improve operational efficiency, and achieve sustainable growth.
Tangible ROI: Every solution is grounded in measurable outcomes, ensuring you see the value of our partnership.
Enduring Relationships: Many of our clients choose to partner with us long-term, a testament to the trust we build and the results we deliver.
Let’s Start the Conversation
Partner with Lodestar Consulting, LLC to move past day-to-day firefighting and into a sustainable, growth-oriented future. Together, we’ll craft a roadmap for success that works for your unique business and goals.
Who We Are
Scott Headley
Scott Headley is a high-impact operations leader and consultant with a dynamic, three-decade career focused on restoring profitability, elevating operational efficiency, and implementing transformative improvements in diverse manufacturing environments. As the co-owner and president of Lodestar Consulting, LLC, Scott specializes in operational turnarounds, process optimization, and strategic guidance for manufacturing firms. His approach is rooted in Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, project management, process improvement and operations management which he leverages to build sustainable growth frameworks tailored to each client’s unique needs.
At Lodestar Consulting, Scott has led several high-profile projects with substantial operational outcomes. His portfolio includes setting up a rapid recovery protocol for an automotive technology client facing an industry audit failure, which involved orchestrating a multi-layered response with several additional consultants and numerous child projects involving engineers, managers, and executives from multiple disciplines. Scott’s expertise in designing robust operational frameworks led to the establishment of a Design for Manufacturing/Assembly process, providing a streamlined engineering approach that integrates seamlessly with production capabilities. Scott was recently called upon to assist an automotive OEM with streamlining several production assembly lines to support ongoing production and a new product launch.
Before founding Lodestar Consulting, Scott served in pivotal roles in major packaging industry players like Georgia Pacific, and Graphic Packaging. As Director of Operations at Georgia Pacific, he quickly achieved profitability in a facility that had not been profitable in five years. Scott drove stability by building a cohesive management team, establishing detailed capacity planning protocols, and initiating a robust equipment reliability process.
Scott’s dedication to continuous improvement is complemented by his service in the U.S. Army, where he reached the rank of Captain. This experience instilled in him a strong sense of responsibility, resilience, and leadership that he carries into his professional life. Furthermore, his service shaped Scott’s strong belief that meaningful and sustainable change does not occur in a conference room, but rather at the point of the process. He believes in a “boots on the ground” approach.
Jamie Headley
Jamie Headley is the co-owner of Lodestar Consulting LLC. She has over 30 years of operational and leadership experience helping companies execute turnarounds, exceed their goals and maximize profits. She has held numerous leadership roles as an operations executive serving as the VP of Operations for Art.com, the Director of Supply Chain for Catalent Pharma Solutions and Plant Services Manager for MeadWestvaco.
Jamie also spent several years in business development, working as the Director of Business Development for the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center. At MMTC Jamie lead the Sales team and worked with the Federal government and State of Michigan to help provide solutions for small to midsize manufacturers in Michigan.
She continued to expand her career by starting her own dementia consulting business, Dementia Services Group, helping families and training care providers to improve the quality of life for those with cognitive impairment. Jamie’s mother suffered through Alzheimer’s Disease and helping others navigate dementia continues to be a passion of hers. Dementia Services Group continues today as part of Lodestar Consulting.
With Lodestar, Jamie has been working as a Fractional COO/EOS Integrator for a family owned, 53-year-old machines shop. Partnering with the University of Michigan, Jamie is leading a turnaround and has helped the team achieve profitability for the first time in several years. In addition to the improved financial performance and operational efficiencies, she has guided the team in updating technology, improving culture and expanding the customer portfolio of the business setting it up for growth and sustainable results.