Ken Lewis is a founder and Director of Dutton Engineering (Woodside) Ltd, a busy sub-contract sheet metal working company located at Sandy in Bedfordshire. He has been chairman of the Bedfordshire and Luton Chamber of Commerce Training and Enterprise, and of various other local business initiatives, as well as Commissioner for St John Ambulance.

Ken is increasingly in demand to give presentations and lectures throughout the UK and abroad about the cultural changes he has effected in his company. He is author of two books: "Kaizen, the right approach to Continuous Improvement", and along with Steve Lytton, the highly acclaimed "How to Transform your Company and Enjoy It!", which first appeared in 1995 and was recently published in an updated paperback edition. He has contributed to the DTI’s flagship event Winning in the 90’s and is widely consulted by the DTI and industry because of his challenging views and considerable experience in the management of change.

Ken has shared platforms with Margaret Beckett and many other government ministers, Sir John Harvey Jones and Brazilian Entrepreneur and author Ricardo Semler. Dutton Engineering is being increasingly widely known both at home and abroad as a best practice firm. It has been a host company for the DTI’s ’Inside UK Enterprise’ scheme since 1991;was a winner of the DTI’s Wedgwood award for Business Excellence; came a very close runner up to Glaxo Wellcome in the Perkins Quality Award for Outstanding Progress in Continuous Improvement within an Organisation; and won the DTI "Best SME" award and the 1997 KPMG Anglia Television Enterprise Award for "Motivation".

Ken has heldtwo ministerial appointments; Board Member of the East of England Development Agency (R.D.A.) and Business Link Accreditation Advisory Board. He was also on the Stakeholder Pensions Advisory Group to the Secretary of State for Social Services-Alistair Darling, and has also advised ministers on the last Competitiveness White Paper.

Ken Lewis was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s 1998 New Year Honours List for services to industry in East of England.