Management Engineering

Dr. Jean Ann Larson is President and Principal Consultant at J. A. Larson & Associates. Dr. Larson is an experienced executive who partners with business owners, leaders, executive teams, and individuals to help them become more productive while bringing innovation into their businesses and lives through business consulting, facilitation, speaking and executive development and coaching engagements. Jean Ann has led organizational, professional and business transformations for over two and a half decades. She has served as an internal process engineer and consultant, a change agent, and Chief Learning Officer, founding an award winning and respected corporate university. She also served as a Senior Executive of two large healthcare organizations where she has led the functions of organizational effectiveness, process improvement, executive development, talent management, team building, employee engagement, accreditation, quality, strategic development facilitation as well as several clinical areas. Jean Ann has a degree in industrial engineering from Wichita State University, an international MBA from the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management and in 2011 she received her doctorate in organization change from Pepperdine University with an emphasis on personal, professional and organizational transitions. She has written, edited and published books and many articles on process redesign, process improvement, leadership organization change and transition. She is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences on process redesign, change management, leadership, transformation, cultural change, learning and organization development. She holds the following certifications: * Certified Growth Curve Strategist, TTI Performance Systems * Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst, TTI Performance Systems * Certified Professional Motivators Analyst, TTI Performance Systems * Certified Professional TTI TriMetrix(R) HD Analyst * Just Culture through Outcomes Engenuity * Certified Profile Administrator from Basadur Applied Creativity * Odyssey Certified Consultant as part of Odyssey Transformations Group * Affiliate Certified Axiological Practitioner - AXCES Solutions, LLC * Certified Six Sigma Green Belt through Beaumont/American Society of Quality List of Contributors: Steve Escamilla, Director of the California Quality Collaborative Dutch Holland, President, Holland Management Consulting Tarun Mohan, Health Systems Engineering Analyst, Mayo Clinic Thomas Roh, Senior Health Systems Analyst, Mayo Clinic Rudy Santacroce, Director, Management Engineering Consultant Services, UF & Shands Health Systems John Templin, President, Templin Management Associates, Inc. Amanda Mewborn, Senior Healthcare Operational Planner, Perkins & Will Bennetta Raby, Strategy and PMO Consultant, Runn Enterprise David Cowan, Senior Research Scientist in the Health Systems Institute, the Georgia Institute of Technology Joyce T. Siegele, FACHE, DSHS, Productivity Improvement Manager, Northside Hospital Kelly Arnold, Management Systems Engineer, Dekalb Medical Marvina Williams, Senior Planner, Perkins & Will Duke Rohe, Quality Improvement Education Consultant, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Alex Bohn, Transformation Engineer, Care Logistics Sue Te, Director of Transformation, Care Logistics Larry Dux, Director of Clinical Information Systems and Process Improvement, Froedtert Health Cristina Daccarett, Performance Excellence, St. Luke's Hospital, Boise, Idaho Karl Kraebber, Project Manager, Operational Improvement Group, Indiana University Health Roger Gruniesen, Manager, Clinical Operations Consulting, Quorum Health Resources Debbie Flint, Director, Performance Engineering UAHSF The Kirklin Clinic Phil Troy, Operations Research Analyst, Troyware John Hansmann, Sr. Director of Labor Management & Productivity, Tenet Health Richard Herring, National Director for Healthcare Planning and Strategies, Perkins and Will Dean Athanassiades, Senior Director, Software Customer Services, Philips Healthcare Mary Ellen Skeens, Director of Solutions Consulting, Philips Healthcare Adrienne Dickerson, President, Cadence Health, Inc. Ryan Wood, Coordinator in Management Engineering, Beaumont Health Systems Bart Sellers, Manager of Management Engineering, Intermountain Healthcare Roque Perez, Senior Engineer of Management Engineering Consulting Services Bridget O'Hare, RCA Program Director, Banner Health Alyn Ford, Vice President Marketing, Care Logistics Ben Sawyer, Executive Vice President, Care Logistics Michael Washington, Health Scientist, Center for Disease Control and Prevention