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Emmanuel Aouad is a transformation leader, nerdcore artist and two-time American Ninja Warrior competitor who writes Six Sigma into songs and albums you can play.

Emmanuel Aouad has spent sixteen years fixing how work works, across financial services, manufacturing and payments, generating more than $100 million in savings and cost avoidance while training over 2,000 people and coaching close to 500 through to certification. He built HEAR, a human-centered transformation framework, and speaks on operational excellence and AI at conferences including Financial Executives International and MoreSteam's Best Practices in Operational Excellence. He is also the nerdcore artist Creative Mind Frame, a rapper and multi-instrumentalist with twenty-nine releases, SXSW showcases, the world's first playable rap album, and Six Sigma songs inside MoreSteam's curriculum. He is a two-time American Ninja Warrior competitor and a Wabash College Athletics Hall of Famer.

Emmanuel Aouad has spent sixteen years fixing how work works. Across financial services, manufacturing and payments, his hands-on leadership has generated more than $100 million in savings and cost avoidance, alongside hundreds of thousands of efficiency hours. He has trained over 2,000 people in operational excellence and coached close to 500 through to certification. He is Six Sigma Black Belt certified and Master Black Belt trained through Ohio State's Fisher College of Business and MoreSteam, and he built HEAR, Human Experience Architecture and Research, his own transformation framework built on the conviction that transformation fails as a human problem long before it fails as a process one. He keynoted UC Santa Barbara's first Process Paradise, presented at Financial Executives International's AI Case Studies Conference, and delivers the Trust Equity webcast for MoreSteam. Under the name Creative Mind Frame he is a nerdcore hip-hop artist and multi-instrumentalist with twenty-nine releases since 2012, SXSW showcases from 2015 to 2020, and a founding membership in the Nerdy People of Color Collective. He performs as both rapper and horn player, having shared stages with Mega Ran, MC Frontalot, MC Lars, Shing02 and Substantial at MAGFest and MomoCon. In 2024 he taught himself game development to release Level Up: The Playable Rap Album, the world's first playable rap album, on Steam. His educational music sits inside MoreSteam's Six Sigma curriculum. A two-time American Ninja Warrior competitor who reached the Los Angeles semi-finals, he is also a Wabash College Athletics Hall of Famer, a two-time NCAA Division III All-American hurdler, and still holds three Wabash records set in 2010. He studied economics and music at Wabash College and serves on the board of the National Association of Wabash Men.