QMI Team: Dan Vetter

VLI Executive Director

Dan Vetter is Executive Director of the Visual-Lean® Institute (VLI), responsible for VLI’s operational performance, customer interface, product presentation, and staffing. Periodically, Dan teams with Dr. Galsworth on visual implementation conversions for Quality Methods International (QMI), the parent company of VLI.

Prior to joining VLI, Dan worked for more than 20 years in the quality, process, and performance improvement field with many specialized assignments in curriculum design and instruction. Working closely with company executives, Dan assisted them and their teams to focus on key leadership issues, including individual and team performance behaviors that support breakthrough process improvements.

More recently he directed his own company, Vetter Solutions, a performance consulting firm in the Pacific Northwest, with Nike, HP, and Mutual of Omaha, among others, as clients. As part of that, Dan has designed over 50 workshops and seminars on a wide range of topics, some of which have been delivered internationally in 12 different languages.

Dan believes success comes when leaders, employees, and processes are clearly aligned with what customers want. He humorously refers to himself as the “Organizational Chiropractor” because he seeks to eliminate the pain organizations experience from misalignment. He brings this perspective to his work at the Institute. Time and again, Dan demonstrates that his personal mission is to make people and the businesses they work for successful.

A past president of the American Society for Training and Development/Cascadia Chapter, Dan is now an adjunct faculty member for Portland State University and Bellevue University, facilitating programs in the areas of Human Performance Improvement and Training Design.

Dan has a Masters degree in Counseling from the University of Nebraska. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Carmen, and their lab-pointer, Max. When not consulting or training, you can find him sailing up the Columbia River, hiking Mt. Hood, or watching sunsets on the Oregon Coast. Their son, Jonathan, is a cello performance major at the Cleveland Institute of Music.