Jim Walton founded Trammels to seek out, refine, and share best practices for good governance—clearly, consistently, measurably.
For 29 years inside a Fortune 500 manufacturer, he started out on the line—absorbing how systems succeed or fail—then designed and implemented tools that make the right action the easy one: dashboards for instant status, checklists that block high-risk oversights, point-of-use systems that expedite processes. Certified PMP, CEM, and Six Sigma Black Belt, he advanced through industrial automation and—for the latter half of his tenure—co-led programs in efficiency, reliability, and safety, witnessing incentives translate from blueprint to behavior.
Trammels ports these battle-tested principles upward: decision guardrails, publish-by-default dashboards, and adaptable templates for diverse contexts.
Governance failures are system design failures. Trammels seeks to find or develop evidence-based best practices and make them easy to understand and apply.
jl.walton@trammels.org