CREATIVELY EFFICIENT
Innovating and Coaching Productivity
MIDWEST CONSULTING
Available for coaching, training, and efficiency improvement.
Creatively Efficient represents the lifelong work of Angela Buckley. As a youth, she was trained in creative problem solving. She has continued to employ these skills through years of engineering, musical performance, and continuous improvement. Her varied interests all relate to a dedication to excellence, lifelong learning, and continuous improvement.
Her recent educational endeavors address sharing fail fast methods of innovation, knowledge management, adult education, and coaching. The intersectionality of these studies with lean manufacturing practices and good engineering are available to help you succeed in business, manufacturing, and personal productivity.
OUR TEAM
Creatively Efficient is currently seeking like-minded entrepreneurs to work together. Are you interested in productivity, efficiency, and lifelong learning? Contact Angela for guest blogging opportunities.

Angela Buckley
Continuous Improvement Coach
Dedicated to creating a highly trained and productive workforce by employing continuous improvement methods, training, personal productivity, and coaching.
Angela is a dedicated and passionate continuous improvement professional who started in engineering but migrated to focus on the human-machine interaction. She loves long distrance training, performing on middle voice brass instruments, and seeing others succeed. She’s collected a pile of academic degrees, certificates, and awards in line with these interests. You can find her on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
WHAT WE DO
We listen, we coach, we research, and we train. Ultimately, we aim to help you help yourself. How can we help you?
PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
Have you heard about 5S in manufacturing? How can you apply these concepts to your daily life to ease frustrations or simplify transitions between events?
OUR BOOKSHELF
Check out our annotated book list. Interactive links will take you to a point of puchase.
AUTHORED BY ANGELA
Here’s a list of publications: some peer-reviewed, others not. Some are interesting, some are not. Some are long, others are short. Are you interested in co-authoring a paper? Contact Angela directly.



COACHING CONVERSATIONS
Leading in life requires the ability to carry on the conflict conversations in an ameniable manner. As children, we mimic our elders’ conversations. How do learn to improve from the best of the best? Research shows us the way, we can share this knowledge with you.
SIX SIGMA BLACKBELT
Angela is a trained Six Sigma Blackbelt with a smattering of Shainin Red X training. If you are looking for training and coaching in structured problem solving, Angela is available to help.
LEAN MANUCTURING
From the typical Toyota Production System to the translation of Eastern ideas into Western organizations, Angela has been learning and applying the secrets of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement. Creatively apply today’s technologies to recognize significant ROI.