John Carrier is a Senior Lecturer in the System Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His expertise is in shaping the dynamics of operating environments to simultaneously improve productivity, quality, safety, and morale. He has helped companies save hundreds of millions of dollars by helping them find and eradicate the hidden systems lurking inside every operation. His current focus is to help prepare companies to compete in the new environment of Industry 4.0.
He also worked as a Senior Development Specialist at Molten Metal Technology, where he was responsible for designing and operating high temperature liquid metal chemistries and containment compatibility.
He has educated over five hundred top-level leaders in the MIT Sloan Executive Education program in Oil & Gas, petrochemicals, mining, and healthcare. When not teaching, he spends most of his time in the operating environment, working directly with the front line to deliver measurable results in less than sixty days.
Dr. Carrier holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Ph.D. in Control Systems from MIT, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Previously, he was a Case Team Leader at Bain & Co., Director of Six Sigma for Arsenal Capital Partners, and Chief Strategist, Process Innovation at Akamai Technologies.
