Jason Schulist

President of the Generative Local Community Institute

Vice President of Operational Excellence, Boldt

Jason Schulist is President of the Generative Local Community Institute whose mission is to connect communities so that they can improve their problem-solving capability and accelerate community impact.

He is also Boldt’s Vice President of Operational Excellence.

Jason has spent his 30+ year professional career in the construction, automotive, utility, and paper industries. He started as a trades supervisor, launched a greenfield automotive lean assembly factory in Poland, and led a $1B Construction Project Management Office for DTE Energy. He has shepherded three corporate lean transformations.

Jason received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University and two Masters’ degrees in Electrical Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt.

Schulist has recently served on the board of directors for United Way Fox Cities, CAP Services, the MIT Alumni Club of Wisconsin, and supports Imagine Fox Cities and the POINT poverty initiative of Northeast Wisconsin. Jason co-founded the Michigan Lean Consortium, CI-Squared (www.cisquared.org) – the largest continuous improvement volunteer corps in the nation, and founded Skillsfest conference series.

He has a passion for addressing thorny community problems and helping each person flourish into their unique potential.