Dr. Wedgwood has over two decades of experience in guiding organizations through change. He has designed and led dozens of performance excellence deployments globally in industries as diverse as healthcare, electronics, engineered materials, banking, medical devices and chemicals, yielding $100s of millions in profitability improvements. He is well versed at facilitating and mentoring performance improvement decision management at the executive-level. Ian holds a Ph.D. and a First-Class Honors degree in Applied Mathematics from Scotland’s St Andrew’s University. He authored Lean Sigma – A Practitioner’s Guide, considered a seminal work in the field of Lean, Six Sigma and performance improvement and more recently Lean Sigma – Rebuilding Capability In Healthcare, a guide for healthcare leadership on managing change.