Mohamad (Mo) Kasti is currently the Chief Transformation Officer at University of South Florida, Health. Mo’s team accelerates organizations’ success through transformation of leadership, strategy, process, and culture. The center has successfully helped many local, national and international organizations. In 2005, Mr. Kasti innovated the nationally recognized USF Leadership Institute that provides creative and practical leadership development strategies that change the DNA of effective leaders. As a leader in business transformation, Mo was previously the Chief Operation Officer for USF Health that includes the colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, and the USF Physicians Group.

Prior to Joining USF, Mr. Kasti spent ten years with General Electric Healthcare Technologies (NYSE: GE), a top Fortune magazine most admired company and #1 Market Leader in diagnostic equipment & services. Mr. Kasti assumed various successful roles in GE from Sales where he was ranked #1 two years in a row, to marketing, product development, sales operations, billing services, and quality. Mr. Kasti achieved certification as Master Black Belt (MBB) in Lean Six Sigma and Master Change Agent (MCA) in Change Management. Before leaving General Electric, he was part of Performance Solutions, a Healthcare Consulting division, where Mr. Kasti helped healthcare executives improve their organization performance by transferring industrial best practice in management and leadership systems, change management, Lean Six Sigma quality, and performance improvement.

Before joining GE, Mo worked with Steris and Amsco Corporation and Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio. He has a Masters degree in Biomedical and Clinical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and has earned numerous awards as a coach, trainer, and speaker on leadership development. Mo has received numerous management awards for outstanding performance and holds many patents. For more information: email: mkasti@health.usf.edu; web: www.cti-usf.com