Summary
Steve Spear is a senior advisor, MIT Senior Lecturer and healthcare improvement fellow who has spent three decades turning breakthroughs in high-velocity learning and process excellence into repeatable, organization-wide capabilities across industry, defense, and medicine. He has advised the US Navy, Intel, Alcoa and major healthcare systems, helped design the Alcoa Business System and Pittsburgh’s Perfecting Patient Care System, and authored award-winning research and a book that codified Toyota-style lean practices. Steve combines rigorous academic training (AB Princeton; MS/DBA-level studies at MIT, Stanford, Harvard) with hands-on product work—he’s even contributed Android UI features to an open-source ROM project—demonstrating a rare blend of theory, practice, and engineering sensibility. Known for compressing time-to-learn and eliminating harm while unlocking large recurring savings, he specializes in organizational learning, innovation dynamics, and operational design that scales.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Stuyvesant High School
AB Economics, AB Economics at Princeton University
DBA Business Management, DBA Business Management at Harvard Business School
MS Mechanical Engineering, MS Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS Business Administration and Management General, MS Business Administration and Management General at MIT Sloan School of Management
Graduate School of Business--Future Professors of Manufacturing Program, Graduate School of Business--Future Professors of Manufacturing Program at Stanford University
japanese, once highly conversational