Iván Céspedes

Continuous Improvement Expert Roche

For the last 25 years, Iván Céspedes has worked in his native Costa Rica with regional and global firms to continuously improve the way they do business through operational excellence and quality. After working for foreign companies with operations in the country, Iván joined one of the country’s biggest and most admired companies to design and deploy the corporate knowledge management and the enterprise excellence programs, which received two CorpU’s Learning Excellence Awards (Launching in 2013, Branding in 2014) and the “Best Start-Up Business Process Excellence Program” during OpEx Week 2016. While he is currently pursuing his most challenging yet fulfilling role (being a good father for Daniela and Alejandro), Iván is also working as a Continuous Improvement Expert for Roche. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, he is a certified Black Belt and Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence by ASQ, and holds a certification as Change Practitioner by Prosci.