Todd Sperl

Founder Managing Director

Todd is an enthusiastic, creative leader who can look beyond today’s problems to find tomorrow’s solutions, an out-of-the-box thinker not bound by the status quo. In addition to leading Lean transformations for hospitals and physician practices throughout the U.S. and Canada, he is an Adjunct Professor for the Oakland University Executive MBA program in Auburn Hills, MI.

Todd has co-authored three books on Lean Healthcare and the first iPad app for Lean Healthcare. He has presented at numerous regional and national conferences on Lean Six Sigma, change management and human resource assessment.

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Prior to founding Lean Fox Solutions, Todd spent over nine years at St. John Providence Health in various HR and organizational effectiveness roles. He directed the deployment of Lean Six Sigma across SJH ensuring achievement of strategic goals and objectives. SJPH located in SE Michigan, is comprised of seven hospitals plus more than 125 medical facilities. Todd led, coached, taught and mentored Leadership, Black Belts, Green Belts and Process Owners in DMAIC, Lean, Change Acceleration Process and Work-Out methodologies. Prior to that, Todd spent over seven years at Competency Management, Inc. managing projects for Fortune 500 clients focused on training programs, satisfaction surveys, pre-employment assessment tools, executive development, behavior-based modeling, selection interviewing and in-basket exercises.

Todd is a GE trained Master Black Belt and Master Change Agent. He received his BS in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls and a MS in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX.

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Strengths: Lean Heathcare Transformation, Lean Manufacturing Transformation,  Leadership Training, Supervisor Training, Executive Coaching, Lean for Service Organizations, Quality and Problem Solving, Six Sigma, and more.