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Chris Hartley

Lean Improvement Specialist

Email: chris_hartley@ncsu.edu | Phone: 336.684.3538

Chris Hartley

Bio

Chris serves as an Improvement Specialist working with manufacturers, hospitals, physician’s offices, public health departments, government agencies and many other types of organizations to teach and guide them through their improvement journey. Chris has over 20 years of process improvement and project management experience. Chris’ responsibilities include teaching classes, training on-site with organizations to lead them through their lean, six-sigma, or kata journey, and coaching and mentoring personnel to become improvement leaders in their respective organizations. Chris has led Kaizen teams to see dramatic decreases in throughput in hospital emergency departments, decrease in time to hire for human resource departments, as well as increasing capacity and production for multiple manufacturers and government agencies. Chris holds certifications as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt; Training Within Industry (Job Instruction, Job Relations, Job Methods); DDI Leadership Content Facilitator; and The Culture Works - All In Culture Course. Chris has a B.S. in psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chris operates out of his home office in Mebane, NC.