Elanco Canada
Business & operational leadership
Led expansion and organisational growth across multiple sites, aligning people, operating systems and business priorities within a complex, regulated manufacturing environment.
About Brian StewartFrom the plant floor
From the plant floor
to the executive table
An engineer’s curiosity. An operator’s practicality. An executive’s view of the whole business.
Brian Stewart, P.Eng.Founder, RedFox Consulting Inc.
20+ years
In manufacturing and operations leadership.
P.Eng.
Engineering depth connected to business decisions.
Lean Six Sigma
Black Belt
Black Belt
Disciplined problem solving grounded in operating experience.
Experience behind the adviceAccountability in
Accountability in
complex manufacturing
Across senior leadership roles at Elanco Canada and Sekisui Diagnostics, Brian led significant capital expansions and substantial workforce growth while meeting cost and operating performance goals.
Sekisui Diagnostics
Quality-critical manufacturing
Led the scaling of diagnostics manufacturing, balancing capital expansion and workforce development with quality requirements, cost discipline and dependable operating performance.
Arla Foods
Partner manufacturing & standards
Oversaw Arla’s on-site manufacturing partnership, helped develop new technology and worked with executive leadership to uphold demanding standards through influence across organisational boundaries.
Selected leadership experience before founding RedFox Consulting.
Operating perspective
The recommendation has to work inside the business
Brian founded RedFox as an independent practice in 2022. Clients work directly with him, from understanding the operating issue through practical advice, implementation support and capability development.
More than two decades inside manufacturing brought together technical problems, people leadership and business decisions. His experience spans food and agriculture, consumer products, medical devices and biotechnology.
He has also spent years hiring consultants and deciding what was genuinely useful inside an operating business. That perspective shapes RedFox: get close to the issue, connect the parts and make the work practical.
Food & agricultureConsumer productsMedical devicesBiotechnology
The person behind the practiceBuilt from curiosity
Built from curiosity
Shaped by experience
Brian grew up in rural Prince Edward Island in a practical, hands-on environment. Figuring things out, helping out and learning by doing were part of everyday life.
That mindset shaped how he approached problems long before he became an engineer. It eventually led to mechanical engineering and a career in manufacturing and operations leadership.
RedFox brings those experiences together in direct work with owners, leaders and teams.
A useful conversation
starts with your situation
You do not need to arrive with a finished brief or a preferred solution. Start with what is happening in the business.
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