George Ellis

George Ellis has worked in product development 35 years. He first experienced Continuous Improvement two decades ago through Danaher Corporation, one of the world’s foremost lean thinking companies. Danaher transformed itself in the 1980’s, modeling its Danaher Business System (DBS) after the Toyota Production System. Ellis has had numerous leadership roles at Danaher including Vice President Global Engineering for X-Rite from 2015 to 2018.

In 2019, Ellis joined Envista Holdings Corporation, a new spin off from Danaher for the dental industry as Vice President of Innovation . There he spends every day immersed in Lean knowledge work, deploying, improving, and sustaining new product development workflows in EBS, Envista’s brand of Lean Knowledge. He also wrote Project Management for Product Development, Control System Design Guide (4th Edition), and Observers in Control Systems, all from Elsevier.