Kari Lamont

Kari Lamont, Sr Director Central Capabilities, McCormick, began her career as an engineer with a medical device company.  It was there she found her passion for process, especially in the form of continuous improvement.   After many years supporting the production environment, Kari joined up with McCormick to apply those same process principles into the Shared Services sector.  As a project manager, Kari led several large scale technology implementations, organizational redesigns, and process simplification initiatives.  Kari initiated the Process Improvement (PI) program for McCormick Shared Services in 2008 and to date, 300 employees have saved McCormick more than 75,000 hours in productivity.   Kari also played a large role in deploying McCormick’s High Performance Framework which focuses on engagement and empowerment of every employee.  Early last year, Kari returned to the US from a 2.5 year assignment abroad in Lodz, Poland where she lead our new captive center which has grown from 4 employees to nearly 200 in less than 2 years.  In 2017 Kari was promoted to the Sr Director, Central Capabilities where she heads up a team accountable for program management, business process management, process improvement, RPA, process measurement and quality control.    For fun, Kari enjoys traveling with her husband and two sons, which often involves the boys ‘standing guard’ at one famous monument or another.