Jon Miller

Jon has dedicated his 25+ year career to the field of kaizen, continuous improvement, and lean management. Jon spent the first eighteen years of his life in Japan, then graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s in linguistics. He worked as an interpreter with the Shingijutsu company for eight years, traveling the world as they taught kaizen and the Toyota Production System.

In 1998 Jon co-founded the consulting and training firm Gemba Research and served as its President and CEO. Jon led dozens of Lean transformation projects in a wide range of organizations, large and small across more than 20 countries. While collaborating on projects with Ron Pereira and Kevin Meyer, the three co-founders saw a common vision of transforming continuous improvement learning and established Gemba Academy in 2009.

In 2011 the Gemba Research consulting operations merged with the Kaizen Institute. Jon served as its global CEO and board member, leading the firm in the application of kaizen into new markets and sectors. In 2015 Jon left the consulting field to support the Gemba Academy startup full-time.

Today Jon applies his experience in continuous improvement to advise clients on their deployment strategies, and in developing learning solutions for Gemba Academy.