Ron Sarazin, co-founder and CEO

Ron Sarazin is the President of Olympic Performance, Inc. and CEO of Process Path, Inc. Ron graduated with a BS in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University (OSU) and has completed advanced training at the University of Idaho and Stanford University.

Ron has 33 years professional experience. He has held leadership or officer positions with the Aluminum Company of America, PACCAR (owner of Peterbilt and Kenworth Class 8 truck manufacturing companies), Portland General Electric, and Mutual Health Systems, Inc. In 1991, he launched Olympic Performance, Inc. As a consultant, he has completed engagements for a wide variety of clients in manufacturing and production, government, and service.

Ron is an accomplished author and trainer. He authored two computer programs marketed nationally: Fixed Asset Depreciation and M105D. He created a 360-degree leadership assessment instrument titled Management 2000 and authored a training module titled Managing Customer Expectations, incorporated in the Partners for Quality standardized curriculum sold worldwide. He developed a certificate seminar series for Portland State University titled Creating Customer-Centered Organizational Excellence and currently teaches three courses he developed titled Advanced Management Techniques, Project Management Tools, and Workflow Management. He has written and delivered training and consulting programs on many topics and recently completed and published a book titled Action, with Traction on the subject of strategic planning and operational execution.

Ron is also an experienced presenter and facilitator. For example, he was keynote presenter to over 500 franchisees of the Papa Murphy’s company on the subject of Customer Loyalty and to the Alaska Telephone Association on the subject of Member Loyalty through Operational Effectiveness. He has facilitated planning sessions for City, County, and State elected officials as well as for staff organizations. He has also facilitated strategic planning and operations planning for for-profit and non-profit leadership teams, and helped many teams at all levels in a wide variety of organizations challenged with differing priorities and personality conflicts become functional and effective. His engagements include several client relationships where he helps leadership teams keep their plans current and their actions focused, facilitating periodic review sessions as well as guiding development of effective balanced scorecard and related feedback systems.

Active in his community and profession, Ron is Chair-elect for the Washington County Community Action Organization and a member of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Industrial Advisory Board (OSU). He has been chairman of the Clackamas County Budget Committee, vice-president of the TTS Youth Competitive Soccer Club, and chair of the Tualatin Americans with Disabilities Act Board. He is a former elected official for the Tualatin City Council and served on the Tualatin Budget Committee, Tualatin Development Commission, Washington County Cooperative Library System Board, and Tualatin Core Area Parking Board. He is past chair of the Tualatin Architectural Review Board and past president and director of the Portland Chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He served as girls’ junior varsity soccer coach for Tigard High School for three years and continues to coach competitive youth soccer for Southside Soccer club, headquartered in Tigard, Oregon.