Jim Bossert

Jim Bossert is a Performance Excellence Manager with John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. Prior to that Jim was a Lean Six Sigma and Change Management Master Black Belt for High Reliability Initiatives at the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. In this role, he was responsible for leading and coordinating activities supporting the adoption of high reliability practices with hospitals and state hospital associations. He has been actively involved in quality and process improvement in all levels of management for over 35 years. He has presented at numerous conferences as well as written papers and webinars to share with others his learnings.

His experiences in a variety of industries have allowed him to help many diverse industries in the implementation of Rapid Process Improvement. Some of these industries are automotive manufacturing and design, chemical and process manufacturing, mobile phones, banking and finance, performance excellence consulting, software development and teaching. Dr. Bossert has certified Green Belts, Black Belts and Master Black Belts in these industries.

He was named Quality’s 2018 Quality Professional of the Year.

Jim has authored the Supplier Management Handbook (6^th Edition) and Supplier Certification among other books. He is an ASQ Fellow, he received the Distinguished Service Medal from ASQ in 2012. Dr. Bossert received his MBB from GE. He is the past editor of the Six Sigma Forum magazine. Jim received his PhD from Indiana State University in Technology Management specializing in Quality Systems. He received his MS in Applied Math and Statistics from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, Six Sigma Black Belt, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and Certified Quality Manger/Operational Excellence. He also has his CHPQ certification and is a reviewer for the Journal for Healthcare Quality.