Brad Brown is a career firefighter with over 18 years of experience, serving the last four as a strategic planning officer and lean champion for the City of Grand Rapids Fire Department where he has embraced the use of data driven decision making. Having a lifelong passion for learning, Brad is currently halfway through a four year executive fire officer program at the national fire academy and holds a Master’s degree in Executive Fire Leadership. He has presented numerous times over the past several years for the Michigan Lean Consortium, University of Michigan Industrial Engineering Program, American Society for Quality and the Center for Public Safety Excellence. Brad is co-founder of Invica performance improvement, a company dedicated to increasing value to customers through the utilization of lean methodology. When not learning or working, Brad spends time on the family farm with his Wife, two young children and way too many animals.
