JASON SCHROEDER
Founder • Chief Operating Officer
Jason Schroeder is a construction executive, author, and trusted voice on Lean, Takt Planning and field leadership. As Founder and COO of Elevate Construction, he helps teams build stable systems and strong, people – first cultures.
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Supporting Construction Through Excellence
Jason has 30 + years in construction, rising from the trades to executive leadership while delivering major North American projects across sectors. He led senior roles at Hensel Phelps, DPR and Okland, built early field-leadership boot camps, and trained hundreds of supers and engineers.
He pioneered Takt Planning and created the Takt Production System®, Integrated Production Control System™ and First Planner System®. He’s the author of multiple best-known field leadership books and hosts the Elevate Construction Podcast (1M+ downloads), sharing practical, jobsite-tested Lean and leadership systems.
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Comprehensive skills designed to accelerate construction and
leadership development.
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Super PM Boot
Camp Is On The Way
This Superintendent/PM Boot Camp will give you the energy, confidence and passion you need to lead your projects and your teams at the highest level
Free Takt
Production Course
Master the Takt Production System® with 9 focused video lessons. Select any lesson to access its video, Miro board, syllabus, quiz and recommended textbook.
Published Works
Featured Books
Bestselling books that transform the way leaders think and operate.
Awards
Honors & Awards
What my excellence gave me
Rapport Leadership International Master Graduate, Level 2
Associated with okland construction
Issued by Rapport Leadership International
Jan 2020
What i got
Licenses & Certifications

Licensed Contractor

Master Graduate

Approved LCI Instructor

Takt Master Certification

Scrum Master Certification

CAPA Pro Member

Certificate of Management, Lean Construction

Lean Leader Certification

Designated Design-Build Professional(™)

Autodesk AutoCAD Certified Professional

Autodesk Revit Architecture Certified Professional

Certified of Management - Building Information Modeling
Digital Presence
Youtube Channels
Educational content reaching millions of business professionals worldwide.
Elevate Construction
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Elevate Construction - Jason Schroeder
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Jason Schroeder
Jason Schroeder is a lifelong builder, construction executive, author, speaker, and one of the construction industry’s most trusted voices on Lean thinking, Takt Planning, production control, and field leadership. He is the Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Elevate Construction, where he helps construction companies and field leaders create stable delivery systems, build strong cultures, and lead with respect for people.
With over 30 years of experience in construction, Jason’s career began in the trades and progressed through field engineer, superintendent, general superintendent, project director, and executive leadership roles. He has planned, built, and supported some of the most complex construction projects in North America, including projects valued in the multiple hundreds of millions and multiple billions of dollars, across healthcare, commercial, institutional, and megaproject environments throughout the United States.
Jason has held senior leadership roles with Hensel Phelps, DPR Construction, and Okland Construction, where he became known for his ability to stabilize challenging projects, build high-performing field teams, and translate Lean principles into practical, executable systems. During this time, he developed some of the industry’s earliest and most comprehensive Field Engineer, Superintendent, and Project Engineer boot camps, training hundreds of field leaders and helping scale operational excellence across organizations.
A recognized pioneer of Takt Planning in construction, Jason is the inventor of the Takt Production System®, the Integrated Production Control System™, and The First Planner System® —production and leadership systems designed to create flow, reliability, and dignity in construction work. He is also the author of several influential books, including Elevating Construction Superintendents, Elevating Construction Senior Superintendents, Takt Planning, and Takt Steering & Control, which are widely used by field leaders and organizations seeking to modernize how construction is planned and executed.
Jason is the host of the Elevate Construction Podcast, one of the most listened-to construction leadership podcasts in the world, with over one million downloads. Through the podcast, his books, training programs, and consulting engagements, Jason shares practical, field-tested insights on leadership, Lean systems, production flow, and cultural transformation—always grounded in real jobsite experience.
In addition to Elevate Construction, Jason is the Founder and COO of LeanTakt and LeanSuperintendent, platforms created to scale Lean education, Takt Planning, and field leadership development throughout the construction industry. His work consistently emphasizes stability, total participation, continuous improvement, and respect for people—not as abstract ideals, but as daily practices on real construction projects.
At the core of everything Jason does is a clear and deeply personal mission:
to elevate construction into a profession that builds leaders, honors people, delivers predictable results, and preserves families—while making construction as efficient as manufacturing and as respected as healthcare.
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