Stephane Deblock

Operational Excellence Leader, Finance Innovation Meta

Stephane is a certified Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma and PROSCI Change Practitioner. He has over 20 years of experience in process improvement and change management, both in the US and in Europe.

Stephane began his career at Pfizer in Paris, France, where he oversaw streamlining processes in both the Sales and IT departments. He continued his experience working for Deloitte in San Francisco, CA on different improvements projects focusing on Service Quality. Then Stephane worked for Airbus in Toulouse, France. In that role, he managed a major project aimed at streamlining Airbus’ manufacturing assembly lines located in France, Spain, England, Germany, and China. Back in the US, Stephane joined UC Berkeley Shared Services as a Process Transformation and Innovation Manager.

Stephane led different projects focused on process improvements and System implementations. In Addition, Stephane also developed and taught the Lean Six Sigma training program at UC Berkeley. Stephane then expanded his role with by Bio-Rad to lead the Global Operational Excellence program. The journey started in Global Manufacturing and is then expanded to the entire organization. Then, Stephane continued his journey by leading the Business Process Management and Change Management team at Kaiser Permanente. Earlier this year, at the 2022 OPEX conference, he was awarded first place for the Best Enterprise-Wide Transformation Project which consisted of Leading the change through an HCM Cloud implementation across the 200K+ workforce in the middle of the Pandemic.

Today, Stephane leads the Process and Change Excellence team in Finance Innovation at Meta.