Dwayne Keller
Fellow | Senior Vice President, Vizient Inc.
Belmont Collaborative for Health Systems Innovation
MBA, MS
dwayne.keller@kaufmanhall.comBiography
Dwayne has over 35 years of experience in executive leadership, with over 15 years in healthcare. He leads business development and oversees delivery of Vizient’s largest, most complex consulting engagements. Dwayne’s executive-level consulting experience includes work with Mayo Clinic, HCA, Vanderbilt and Denver Health, as well as numerous small and medium-sized hospitals. He spent the first 20 years of his career in the manufacturing industry with DuPont (nuclear) and Alcoa (aluminum), two of the safest companies in the world where he experienced high reliability culture and processes.
Prior to joining Vizient, Dwayne served as COO of Healthcare Performance Partners, a premier Lean healthcare consulting firm that was acquired by Vizient. He's led a variety of engagements, including Lean transformations, strategy deployment, Lean-led facilities design and focused performance improvement projects like length of stay, clinical documentation improvement and spend management. His breadth of experience and a deep understanding of Lean and high reliability allow Dwayne to coach healthcare executives and senior leadership teams through the high-reliability journey. Dwayne is an adjunct instructor at Belmont University and Vanderbilt’s School of Nursing. Dwayne earned an MBA from Clemson University and Master's and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University.