Ron is the President of Breakthrough Horizons, LTD, a Florida-based, U.S, management consulting company specializing in World Class Improvement through the application of the Toyota Business System, more commonly known as “lean”. His lean management experience was gained through multiple enterprise transformations across a variety of industries including custom packaging, power reliability electronics assembly, and test and measurement products.

Educated at Purdue University, he learned the details and disciplined applications of lean principles, habits, and tools from both the Shingijutsu Sensei and their first-generation disciples. Working on both shop floor and office areas, Ron has vigorously strived to remove wasted time and activity from businesses through the involvement and ideas of the people doing the work leading to world class rates of improvement in performance and culture.

Ron has lean consulting experience in the insurance sector, the agriculture sector, healthcare sector (US, Canada Health, and Veteran’s Administration Systems including primary care, acute care, and community applications of both clinical and back shop improvement), the commercial sector (administration, manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, engineering), and the public sector (US Army, US Navy, US Air Force including MRO, Pentagon, and Surgeon General Assignments), and the telecommunications sector.

Ron is also a recognized author, first published in November 2011 (the second edition was published in April of 2021), with the release of his Shingo award-winning book entitled, “Taking Improvement from the Assembly Line to Healthcare” detailing the application of the Toyota Production system to the healthcare industry. This book has a second edition published in 2021. His second book, “Lean Leadership for Healthcare” was published in April 2013 and delivers important leadership lessons in lean healthcare transformation. This book was also awarded a Shingo Prize. Ron’s third book, The Lean Electronic Health Record, published in 2019, delivers cutting edge lean thinking to the life cycle of the medical health record.