Business Owner
CurrentScott has always been interested to lead his own Consulting efforts, he has been involved with Lean and Continuous Improvement for over 30 years. Scott worked at Autoliv for 23 years, his most memorable learning came while working directly with a talented Toyota Sensei who mentored Autoliv for 3 years. Autoliv's culture was open to experiment and apply Lean principles, tools and management systems. As a Production Manager, Scott and his team were able to yield significant results as they applied grass root efforts using the Toyota Production System. Autoliv in Utah operations saw substantial improvement across the organization as they immersed themselves into developing the Autoliv Production System. Scott continued in various positions at Autoliv, Supply Chain Management, Operations Plant Manager and eventually launched and managed a Consulting Division for over 5 years. Under Scott’s direction and leadership, the Ogden facility received the prestigious Shingo Prize. With the maturity of the Autoliv Production System the Consulting Division mentored hundreds of organizations in their improvement journey. Scott left manufacturing 12 years ago to pursue applied learnings in Healthcare. A grass root effort was launched by accepting a position as the Northern Region Continuous Improvement Director for Intermountain Healthcare. With the success of implementing Continuous Improvement in the North Region, Senior leadership chose to adopt the Continuous Improvement Model system wide. Since then, Scott has worked in several system CI positions that supported system leaders supports in Utah & Idaho.Under Scott's leadership Intermountain Health has benefitted from a high number of employee ideas, cost savings and improved Quality/Safety measures. Scott was a Co-team member in the creation and practice of the Intermountain Operating Model.
