Michael Raisor, deputy chief operating officer at the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation, was approved by the EVSC Board of School Trustees to become the executive director for operational excellence for the corporation.
Operational excellence is a philosophy of leadership, teamwork and problem solving resulting in continuous improvement throughout the organization by focusing on the needs of the customer, empowering employees, and optimizing existing activities in the process.
Raisor, along with nine other leaders in the EVSC, will soon receive his Master of Business in Operational Excellence from the Fisher College of Business of The Ohio State University. Raisor will be tasked with introducing the concepts of operational excellence throughout the corporation.
Raisor earned his Ph.D. in educational leadership from the Bayh College of Education at Indiana State University. His dissertation, “What Highly Effective Leaders Do During Difficult Times†identified the habits, behaviors, and leadership philosophies of Indiana’s most effective superintendents during the 2009 budget cuts. He is an alumnus of Harvard University’s National Institute for Urban School Leaders and the University of Virginia’s Turnaround Leadership Program. In 2007, he was recognized by the Indiana Association of School Principals as one of Indiana’s assistant principals of the year for his work at Harwood Middle School.
