Richard Chua
Professor: Operations
An author, trainer, consultant, and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Sensei, Richard Chua enables companies to design, control and improve
products, services, processes, and quality systems. With 30 years of
experience, his successes have been published as cover stories in the
American Society for Quality's Six Sigma Forum and Quality Progress
magazines, co-authored with the CEO of Samsung and an operations
executive at Genentech (Roche).
Before coming to JWMI,
Richard served as Executive Vice President at the Juran Institute,
where he co-authored the fifth edition of Juran’s Quality Planning and
Analysis for Enterprise Quality. Prior to that, he managed Change
Management Services at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Richard
has recently authored many operational excellence courses on Lynda.com
and LinkedIn Learning.
Richard holds a Ph.D. in Business
Administration (Operations Management) from the University of
Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree with
distinction in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.