Edward Blackman
Global Business Transformation Leader
- Role
- Continuous Improvement Strategy Leader at Acron Aviation
- Location
- Holland, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Edward Blackman
Edward Blackman is a global executive leader with over two decades of Continuous Improvement (CI) experience transforming manufacturing and administrative settings (IT, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, Legal) at companies like Archer Daniels Midland, Dematic, Whirlpool, Spectrum Health, and Meijer. His professional activities include: conference keynote presentations, webinars, podcasts, published articles, and book contributions (most notably “The Toyota Way, 2nd Edition” by Dr. Liker). Edward has a Masters in Behavioral Science with undergraduate degrees in psychology and mathematics. He specializes in coaching executives and other leaders in problem solving behaviors; as well as developing project-based, event-based, and daily-based problem solving systems. Finally, Edward greatly values innovation with backing obtained for two inventions through ideation programs.
Experience
Continuous Improvement Strategy Leader
Sep 2025 — Present
Education
Ferris State University
Associates of Science, Mathematics
1994 — 1997
Western Michigan University
Bachelor of Science, Behavioral Psychology
1997 — 1999
Western Michigan University
Master of Arts, Behavioral Science
1999 — 2000
Harvard Business School Online
Certification: AI Essentials for Business, Information Technology
Skills
- Project Management
- Change Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Data Analysis
- Six Sigma
- Systems Thinking
- Program Management
- Hoshin Kanri
- Team Building
- Business Analysis
- Leadership Development
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Toyota Production System
- Performance Improvement
- Lean Management
- Organizational Development
- Training
- Pmp
- Leadership
- Healthcare Information Technology
- Healthcare
- Business Process Improvement
- Team Leadership
- Lean Tools
- Scrum
- Facility Design
- Process Improvement
- Executive Coaching
- Healthcare Information Technology (Hit)
- Kaizen
- Strategic Planning
- Agile
- Organizational Behavior
- Performance Management
- Manufacturing
- Devops
- Analysis
- Lean Manufacturing
- Problem Solving
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