Diana Hayes

Selected leadership work

Context. Decisions. Consequences.

A record of the challenges I was accountable for, the choices I made and what changed as a result.

97.6%

On-time delivery

Up from 81% across the network

₹1,150 Cr

Cost removed

Without reducing service quality

64

Sites run

Plants, warehouses and service centres

−48%

Safety incidents

Over three operating years

Case 01

Operating model redesign

An organisation had grown through local improvisation, leaving hand-offs between commercial and delivery teams unclear. I mapped the end-to-end workflow with team leaders, assigned ownership at the points where work crossed functions and established a shared escalation routine. The redesign made service commitments and capacity decisions part of the same conversation.

Case 02

Delivery reliability

Delivery teams were responding to recurring exceptions as if each were new. We separated demand variation from avoidable process failure, reviewed the causes with frontline colleagues and gave recurring issues a named owner. The operating review shifted from reporting yesterday's misses to removing the conditions that produced them.

Case 03

Productivity and quality

A productivity programme risked moving costs from one function to another without improving the customer outcome. I introduced end-to-end measures alongside local targets and tested changes in a contained operating unit before wider adoption. Quality, workload and service reliability remained visible throughout the decision.

In the words of others

Endorsements

Turns ambition into an operating system people can actually run.
Lars EriksenChief Executive, Harrow & Vale Industries
Safety, service and cost improved together. I had not seen that before.
Nandini RaoChair, Operations & Safety Committee