About the Author

William Fechter was born on a small dairy and pine tree farm in the Midwest, (Pine Valley Farm). He attended a one-room school, (Saylor School). He has been retired for several years and receives much joy and amazement doing volunteer work with young children. He earned a PhD from Arizona State University with a specialization in industrial management and lean flow implementation. He wrote his dissertation and conducted statistical analysis on the impact of the Toyota production system (lean flow) implementation, and the potential financial and cultural benefits to an organization. He was an internal consultant at Motorola from 1986 to 1989. Fechter also served as a consultant for the Kaizen Institute of Japan. He traveled both Europe and Japan, and designed, developed, and taught the first Kaizen Lean Six Sigma seminars for service organizations and administrative departments in the USA. As a student and admirer of W Edwards Deming's teachings and as a six-sigma consultant he added, "Define the System" to the then existing statistical MAIC model. He taught the first DMAIC model that is now taught and utilized worldwide. As a professor, Fechter taught global management philosophies at several universities. He has been published in journals like Quality, Quality Progress, and Industrial Management. His consulting group Continuous Improvement Mentality (CIM) helped companies achieve greater organizational success. Although he had always thought deeply about the meaning and purpose of life, his spiritual search began in earnest after a significant emotional experience occurred in his life. His discovery about the spiritual implications about the underlying reality of the origin of ignorance propelled him to write a book about the divine relationship of suffering, ignorance, and creation. Original Innocence is his first book.