Joseph LaCount

Corporate Continuous Improvement Leader, Global Operations Cargill

Joseph R. LaCount specializes in Business Process Improvement. For over 38 years he has led quality engineering, quality management and Business process improvement efforts in the Agriculture, Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Printing, Retail, Education, Food & Beverage, Service and Healthcare Industries. Some of the Organizations Joe has had the privilege to work with include: Honeywell, Textron, Alexandria Industries, Target, General Electric, R.R. Donnelley, St. Jude Medical and Cargill. He also ran his own consulting business, providing on-site Quality and Lean Six Sigma consulting and training services for a variety of Industries and Organizations. Joe has hands-on experience working with an Organization’s entire value chain. These efforts included improving Manufacturing, Marketing, Finance, HR, IT, Customer/Donor Relations, Recruitment, On-Boarding, Customer-facing processes as well as improving product/service quality and delivery. Joe joined Cargill in 2009 as a Master Black Belt in the Tartan Process Improvement Group and has held various continuous improvement roles in Cargill. Joe’s current role is Corporate Continuous Improvement Leader, working in the Global Operations group.