Charles Hagood, MBA

Charles Hagood, President and CEO of Healthcare Performance Partners, LLC (HPP), has overseen the implementation of Lean Healthcare systems in numerous healthcare organizations across the US including some of the largest non-profit hospitals, small critical access hospitals, clinics, and large for-profit systems. HPP is one of the few organizations that have successfully translated Lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System (TPS) to the healthcare industry. Charles also is a founding Principal of The Access Group, LLC (TAG), which is headquartered in the Nashville, Tennessee area along with HPP, and has worked with Fortune 100 companies throughout the world in their Lean transformation and process improvement initiatives. Charles received his MBA from Belmont University's Massey School of Business.