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Today’s guest is Katie Anderson is an internationally recognized leadership coach, consultant, speaker, and author of the bestselling book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn.   Best known for her focus on helping individuals and organizations lead with intention, Katie has supported thousands of leaders across a range of industries, including organizations such as Roche, Facebook, Toyota, to connect and align their purpose, process, and practice to achieve higher levels of performance.   Katie has lived in seven countries and leads study trips to Japan for leaders looking to deepen their knowledge of lean leadership, the Toyota Way, and Japanese culture.   Katie holds a BA with honors from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia, where she received her Master's degree in public health from Sydney University. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two sons, nearly a dozen chickens, and hundreds of daruma dolls. Links: Connect with Katie on LinkedIn Connect with Katie on Twitter Katie’s Book LearningToLeadLeadingToLearn.com Katie’s Website http://kbjanderson.com/ Upcoming Japan Study Trip  Karen Martin - Clarity First Karen’s Episode on the Lean Leadership Podcast Patrick Adams - Avoiding The Continuous Appearance Trap Karyn Ross 

Today’s guest is Jamie V. Parker. Jamie is the founder of Process + Results, which provides people leadership development for Lean-practicing organizations. With 17 years of multi-unit operations management experience, Jamie specializes in helping operations managers build engaged & adaptable teams, integrate improvement into their culture and overcome their most pressing challenges. Links The Gold Mine by Michael Balle Creating a Lean Culture by David Mann Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last Radical Candor by Kim Scott Connect with Jamie on LinkedIn Jamie’s Website Process + Results   Get on-demand access to some of Jamie’s most-requested mini-trainings and talks covering things like: The transition from DOING Problem Solving to COACHING Problem Solving Spark Improvement Behavior through Effective Recognition Feedback The Role of Ops Leaders in Integrating Lean   To get access to those free resources, head over to: https://processplusresults.com/free/

Today’s guest is Billy Taylor.  Billy is a retired executive from Goodyear and is now the CEO of his own firm LinkedXL. Since joining Goodyear in 1989, Billy has progressed through a series of leadership positions. He has served as a plant director for both union and non-union facilities, leading lean transformations in Goodyear’s largest and most complex tire-producing sites. Today Billy and I will talk about a wide range of topics including how leaders set the standard by what they accept,  How to build a culture of engagement, and how to develop the technical and personal competencies to challenge the process.   Links The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin Connect with Billy on LinkedIn Billy’s Company LinkedXL

Today’s guest is Steve Spear.  Steve is the author of the award-winning and critically acclaimed book, The High-Velocity Edge. He is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is also a founder of a consulting firm built on the tenets of his book, and of See to Solve Corp., a business process software company. Expert on the ways that “high-velocity organizations” generate and sustain advantage, even in the most hyper-competitive markets, Spear has worked with clients spanning technology and heavy industry, software and healthcare, and new production design and manufacturing. Spear’s 1999 Harvard Business Review article, “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System,” is part of today’s lean manufacturing canon. “Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today” was an HBR McKinsey Award winner in 2005 and one of his four articles to win a Shingo Research Prize. Spear helped develop and deploy the Alcoa Business System, which recorded hundreds of millions of dollars in annual operating savings, and he was integral in developing the “Perfecting Patient Care” system for the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative. He has published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and Academic Medicine, and he has spoken to audiences ranging from the Association for Manufacturing Excellence to the Institute of Medicine. Spear has a doctorate from Harvard Business School, a master’s in engineering and in management from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton.   Important Links: The High Velocity Edge See to Solve Andon Solution Gene Kim’s IT Revolution   Interesting Excerpts from the High Velocity Edge Lean Healthcare Designing Systems to See Problems High Yield Problem Solving

Today’s episode is with Steven J. Spear.  Steven is the author of the book The High Velocity Edge and is a multiple Shingo Research Prize winner.  He helped develop and deploy the Alcoa Business System. He is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is also a founder of a consulting firm built on the tenets of his book.  Steve and I had a great conversation that actually turned into a two-part interview.  This week we will talk about Steve’s early experiences with Lean and Continuous Improvement.   Next week, we will talk about two papers that Steven has recently released that talk about accelerating innovation and succeeding in periods of abrupt change.

Today’s guest is Tim Mclean. Tim is our first guest from Australia and is the Principal and Managing Director of TXM Lean Solutions. In his mid 20’s Tim was promoted in to a Plant Management role and this lead to senior operations and general management positions at Hoechst and in major Blue Chip companies including PPG Industries, Carter Holt Harvey and Amcor. In these roles, Tim continued to increase his knowledge of continuous improvement and lean methodologies and successfully apply these approaches to achieve breakthrough improvements in operations that he was managing.  

Today's guest is Jim Huntzinger. Jim began his career as a manufacturing engineer with Aisin Seiki (a Toyota Group company and manufacturer of automotive components) when they transplanted to North America to support Toyota. Over his career he has also researched at length the evolution of manufacturing in the United States with an emphasis on lean’s influence and development. In addition to his research on TWI, he has extensively researched the history of Ford’s Highland Park plant and its direct tie to Toyota’s business model and method of operation. Huntzinger is the President and Founder of Lean Frontiers and a graduate from Purdue University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology and received a M.S. in Engineering Management from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He authored the book, Lean Cost Management: Accounting for Lean by Establishing Flow, and was a contributing author to Lean Accounting: Best Practices for Sustainable Integration. Today Jim and I will talk about: building communities within the lean community The economic potential of Lean The need to experience failure and setback to increase your rate of learning The history of Training Within Industry and how it's benefits and success can be applied today. Learning by doing Jim's new book, The Roots of Lean

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Today's episode is a continuation of our conversation that we had with Mike Orzen in Episode 31. So if you haven't heard episode 31 yet, after you listen to this episode go back and check out the beginning or our conversation with Mike. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Mike, he is the founder and President of Mike Orzen and Associates. He has been consulting and coaching improvement efforts for over 20 years. Mike is an Adjunct Professor with The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence and is a faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute. He is also a Shingo Award winning Co-Author of Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Enterprise.

Rick Timlick, as an expert in performance management, brings to his clients a distinguished record of achievement having helped organizations all over the globe. Rick specializes in comprehensive organizational transformation and complex operational issues, turnarounds and acquisitions, program/project management, change management, executive team advisement, major process redesigns, and strategic design that supports the corporate goals and objectives of CEO's and Board of Directors.

For over 25 years, Mike has been working in management teaching kaizen and Lean principles. Mike has learned first-hand from the master, Shigeo Shingo, the techniques of the SMED system along with the early teachings of eliminating waste from manufacturing operations. Mike has continued his Lean training and implementation of the Toyota Production System under the masters from Shingijutsu Consulting, Masaaki Imai, and other renowned Lean thinkers from Japan. Mike is a co-author of the Shingo Award winning book Creating a Kaizen Culture: Align the Organization, Achieve Breakthrough Results, and Sustain the Gains Today Mike and I will talk about: His experiences learning from Shigeo Shingo His experiences teaching Lean and Kaizen around the world and how the lean principles have affected his teaching His approach to teaching and what is important to him when he is teaching. I think listeners will find Mike’s approach refreshing. He is extremely intelligent and is one of the most brilliant people I have ever met I really enjoyed talking with him and I hope you find his interview insightful and helpful. Interview Links Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way Gemba Academy Podcast Episode Featuring Mike’s Talk at The Summit on Lean Leadership Connect with Mike on LinkedIn Sponsor Links Get a free audio book from Audible.com

  Hello Lean Leadership Nation! Right now I’m producing this podcast from Atlantic Beach, FL at the One Ocean Resort which is the site of the inaugural Summit on Lean Leadership.  Today was the first day and it was awesome.  I learned a lot from some great speakers most of whom have been guests of the podcast at some point. Before I left for Florida last week I had a chance to participate in another Lean Leadership Unleashed Lunch and Learn Forum.  In this episode we have Bob Miller, former Executive Director of The Shingo Institute, Jeremiah Duncan, a Team Leader at Toyota Georgetown, Dr. Eric Olsen of Cal Poly and of course Sam McPherson of The Lean Leadership Academy. This was a great discussion and I really enjoyed the back and forth dialogue and found it very beneficial.  I hope you find it helpful and educational as well.  I present to you Lean Leadership Unleashed. You can watch the forum here or listen to it on the podcast as well. Sponsors Get a free book from audible.com