FRED AMPOLINI
FRED AMPOLINI
Fred Ampolini has three decades of business, manufacturing and engineering expertise and has lived the engineering adventure of a lifetime! He has worked as a start-up engineer, field engineer, and manufacturing executive in every facet of operations from engineering, production, maintenance, product development, distribution, environmental, heath and safety (EHS), technical training, and commercialization of new products.
Fred led a company-wide and multi-consultant skunk works team that created and launched an industry-transforming product, in fact, the first product of its kind to be authorized for sale by the FDA. Fred was the President of the R.J. Reynolds Vapor Company.
Fred’s skillset includes strategic planning, forming high functioning teams, leadership development, process analysis and improvement, coaching, and high level business analysis and improvement. As an inventor, he holds more than 35 US and international patents.
Fred and his wife live in Winston-Salem, NC. He has four children who are making the world a better place and one really cool grandson. He is the Chairman of Habitat for Humanity of Stokes County and is a volunteer mentor for SCORE NC which helps aspiring and existing small businesses achieve success.
Recent Posts
Why Diets Don’t Work, Why Change is Hard for Contractors, and What We Can Learn from NASCAR
Guess what Americans spend annually on diet and weight loss books, classes, apps, and other associated items? $160 billion/year! That’s billion with a “B!” Worldwide, that figure is $723 billion! What gives? If the books, diets, and techniques were successful, surely...
Six Leadership Lessons from Ted Lasso
Happy Valentine’s Day! Ted Lasso is an award winning, hugely successful streaming phenomenon. It chronicles the adventures of a retired American football coach who gets hired to manage an English Premier League soccer team (spoiler alert: he was totally set up to...
10 Things Wayne Has Learned in his 35 Years of Work and Life
Dennis’ sign off vlog from last week was wonderful as well as insightful. It got Wayne to thinking… What (if anything) has he learned over the course of his business career - especially as it relates to contractors? Please tune in this week as Wayne reveals his Top 10...