Dan Markovitz is founder and owner of TimeBack Management.

He is a faculty member at the Lean Enterprise Institute, and regularly teaches at the Stanford University Continuing Studies Program. He also leads a problem solving workshop at the Ohio State University’s Fisher School of Business.

In addition to his consulting, Dan regularly speaks and leads workshops at national and regional conferences, capped most recently by his keynote address at the 2011 Lean Product & Process Development Exchange.

Dan is quoted regularly in many of the McClatchy newspapers, as well as a variety of trade publications such as California Lawyer, The Hospitalist, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, and Industry Week. He also writes frequently for the Amex OPEN Forum. His new book, A Factory of One, was published by Productivity Press in late 2011.

Dan holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a BA from Wesleyan University.