Business consulting · Kansas City · Since 2010
True organizational transformation isn't only about designing a brilliant strategy. It's about making sure that strategy takes root. I partner with forward-thinking leaders to bridge the gap between ambitious vision and sustainable execution.
Hands-on at every level: coaching leaders, facilitating change, and building cultures of continuous improvement.
About
I'm Elizabeth Bordenave, founder and managing partner of Bordenave Consulting. For more than 20 years, I've partnered with CEOs, business owners, boards, and executive teams across industries. I lead transformation by aligning leadership, engaging teams, and embedding practices that hold up long after I step away.
My Lean and Toyota Production System foundation comes from studying under Master Hajime Oba at the Toyota Supplier Support Center. I've applied it throughout my career to improve organizational effectiveness and return on investment.
My approach
Many organizations struggle with change because they treat strategy, systems, and culture as separate initiatives. I look at your business as a whole.
By aligning these three pillars, I help your team drive growth, improve operational efficiency, and build a resilient culture that thrives in shifting markets.
How I work
Rooted in Lean and the Toyota Production System, the work starts where the work is done and ends with people who can keep improving on their own.
Go to where the work is done. Observe the struggles people face as they try to meet customer and process needs.
Build an environment of trust where it is safe for people to experiment with possible solutions to those struggles.
Try solutions and learn from what works and what doesn't, until the ones that work are found.
Build the learning into the process itself, so the improvement becomes the new standard way of working.
Coach people to reflect on what they learned: from the people they worked with, from the experiment, and from the process.
Reflection surfaces the next problem to identify, and the cycle begins again.
Expertise
Whether you are scaling your business, restructuring operations, or revitalizing your workplace culture, I provide the objective insight and hands-on guidance it takes to make change permanent.
Turning high-level goals into clear, actionable roadmaps.
Building scalable workflows that eliminate bottlenecks and friction.
Fostering high-performance mindsets and accountability across teams.
Guiding your workforce smoothly through major pivots and growth phases.
Insights
November 2026
They fail when the strategy doesn't take root.
The approach I use with clients comes from my Lean/TPS foundation, studying under Master Hajime Oba at the Toyota Supplier Support Center. It's a cycle built for exactly that problem: helping change take root in the daily work, so it lasts after the engagement ends.
Contact
Send an email, or a message on LinkedIn, to schedule a consultation.