Tyson Heaton
Executive Director of LeanTech/AI and Senior Coach
Lean Enterprise Institute
Tyson Heaton is Executive Director of LeanTech/AI and Senior Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute, where he leads efforts to bridge lean thinking with technology implementation. His background spans manufacturing operations at JBS, Schreiber Foods, and Greencore, followed by leadership roles at O.C. Tanner addressing scalability, legacy system modernization, and supply chain transformation.
As a Shingo Institute examiner since 2019, Tyson coaches leaders globally on lean transformation and leads LEI’s exploration of how AI can augment—not replace—the human-centered work of continuous improvement.
