Thomas B. Cox

Thomas Cox was born in Chicago and grew up in Kentucky. He returned to Chicago for college, then settled on the West Coast.

He is a consultant, author and professional speaker. He has worked in industries ranging from retail to wholesale to manufacturing to government to business services. He has worked for IBM, Oracle, Intel, Regence Blue Cross, and Standard Insurance, as well as many startups and midsize firms.

Thomas is the author of one book, countless articles, and is co-author of the chapter “Trauma Scoring” (on metrics and performance improvement) for the textbook Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care (Elsevier), to which he is the only non-physician contributor.

A graduate of the University of Chicago, Thomas earned his four-year degree in behavioral science in just three years, with honors.

Thomas was the 2002 Libertarian candidate for Governor of Oregon.

A devotee of Lean and systems thinking, Thomas believes cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary spaces offer the greatest scope for innovation and solving the most pressing problems of humanity.

Thomas's firm, Eudae LLC, is named after "eudaemonsim" -- the philosophy of human thriving. He is devoting his career to improving the human condition by advancing the science of actualizing human potential.