Daniel T Jones - Author

Founder & Chairman, Senior Advisor
Lean Enterprise Academy

Daniel T. Jones is founder and president of the Lean Enterprise Academy in the United Kingdom. He is a senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, a leading thought leader in the field of management and a mentor in applying lean thinking to organizations of all types.

Together with James P. Womack, he is the author of influential and popular management books on the principles and practice of lean thinking in manufacturing, including The Machine That Changed the World and Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Organization, as well as the workbook Seeing the Whole Value Stream. Their book Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together extends these ideas to consumption, delivery and service delivery. He is also editor of Breaking Through to Flow, Creating Lean Dealers and Making Hospitals Work. Jones is a sought-after speaker and has organized Lean Summit conferences in Europe.

Jones advises organizations in various sectors on their lean transformations, helped establish the UK's first corporate university at Unipart, wrote the report Rethinking Construction for the UK government and Lean Thinking for the NHS. He organized the first Global Healthcare Summit, mentored a dozen hospitals in the UK, Italy and the US, and published Making Hospitals Work. Jones was European director of MIT's Future of the Automobile and International Motor Vehicle Programs. He is an advisor to the European Efficient Consumer Response movement and editor of the International Commerce Review. Jones earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Sussex.