I have worked with Angela Okamoto as a Global Executive Excellence Director at Covidien for many years and have witnessed her ambition, passion, and enthusiasm as the Executive Excellence Leader for our Latin American market. Angela has always stood out for her approach to new challenges and finding the best possible outcome for the business. Her work ethic is excellent, and I have never seen her fail in the face of adversity.
The teams led by Angela had a strong drive for success, which reflects her abilities to develop high-performance individuals, valuing diversity and motivating them to reach a high level of achievement.

Angel R. García

Former Covidien Global Operational Excellence Director

Since the beginning of my journey on Neuromodulation, my goal has been to boost business, while maintaining an environment where all team members could show their potential. We have conducted a workshop and projects for the main challenges and opportunities we face, to create a healthy work division. With Angela Okamoto helping us write this story, the result was spectacular. And we were certain that it was only the beginning. I am very proud of this team and of this collective construction.

Gentil Soares

Head Neuromodulation Abbott Brazil

Angela is a great leader. She has always been fast in responding to all clients’ needs and has always put them in the first place. The best thing is that she is really easy to work with and supports all clients’ needs.
Angela has led a finance Kaizen at Medtronic with the whole region, and the result was very successful according to the feedback from the partakers and the senior leadership.
I would trust Angela to lead any sort of process enhancement or complex business issue. She has a unique style that engages and connects easily with people. She was a top talent in the Latin America region.

Jim Hadley

Director of Program Management for MDIC

In my role as a Supply Chain Manager, I had the opportunity to work on numerous improvement processes with Angela Okamoto. Angela has performed an essential role in the successful outsourcing of the multinational company’s logistics operation in the Argentina health sector. This represented a substantial change, given that we had never worked with a logistics operator in that country.

Former supply chain Manager for the Southern Cone

Angela showed me something I had never acknowledged before: to achieve the change we seek in the processes, there must also be a social change. That was revealing for me. Applying methodologies that alter how we approach problems, we learn to engage and train people who will perform in multidisciplinary groups, and spot with clarity the current situation and what we want to change.
A significant experience was the utilization of the Positive Deviation methodology we used in the chat channel. Looking at the assistants that stood out in the time of attendance. At the end of the process, we had an excellent result in the improvement of the chat channel, both in terms of logged time per attendance the compliments received from our clients.

Sonia Rica

Customer Service Director at Porto Seguro

I have worked directly with Angela on several operational excellence projects in Canada, together with our leader in the country. I have watched her project management for Latin America in general. She shows a solid balance between leadership and collaboration, allied to solid execution and successful metrics in process improvement. Angela has strong communication skills that kept the interested parties regularly informed and ensured that all concerned people understood and obtained value from the project.

Teresa Mattarelli

Former Vice-President Covidien Canada