Joseph E. Swartz

Joseph Swartz is the Director of Business Transformation for Franciscan St. Francis Health of Indianapolis, IN. He has been leading continuous improvement efforts for 16 years and has lead more than 150 Lean and Six Sigma improvement projects. He is the co-author of Seeing David in the Stone: Finding and Seizing Great Opportunities. He is also the co-author (with Mark Graban) of the upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements.

Joseph studied Electrical Engineering and earned an M.S. in Management from Purdue University as a Krannert Scholar for academic excellence. He was trained as a Six Sigma Blackbelt by Honeywell International (Honeywell). He has presented at several national conferences, and was a keynote speaker at the 2004 Outlook on Quality Systems Conference and the 2011 Marcus Evans Medical Device Summit. He has published several articles in Circuits Assembly, 6L, and other journals. He was an instructor for the University of Wisconsin's Executive Education School of Business in Madison Wisconsin from 1996 to 2004.