Ep 139 Michelle Formanczyk: Improving Communication with VoicePrint
Michelle Formanczyk is the owner of Slingshot Designs and serves on the Board of Directors for the Michigan Lean Consortium as Director of Outreach. She’s a certified VoicePrint practitioner and seaso...
28 Aug 202542min
Ep 138 Sabrina Malter: Continuously Learning
Key Takeaways Sabrina's journey from the pharmaceutical industry to management consulting focused on learning and lean principles The importance of creating psychologically safe environments for lear...
13 Aug 20251h 2min
Ep 137 Jared Thatcher (and the Global Lean Summit)
Key Takeaways Jared Thatcher has 20+ years of lean experience across manufacturing, consulting, and government sectors The Global Lean Summit evolved from virtual events during COVID to an internatio...
29 Juli 202555min
Ep 136 Positive Intelligence with Corinna Freitag
Do you consider yourself to be “good with people?" Some of us are born with the skill of creating relationships and working well with others; some of us struggle, especially people whose strengths ar...
31 Jan 202537min
Ep 135 Time Optimization with David Buck
What’s the only thing we all have the same amount of? It’s the number of hours in our day. We live in a culture that is focused on productivity, but David Buck, the author of The Time Optimized Life...
29 Okt 202442min
Ep 134 Continuous Improvement in a Time of Political Turmoil with Phyllis Leavitt
It’s election season in the United States, and it affects us all, no matter how involved we are in politics. Deep fractures run through our families, neighborhoods, and workplaces, affecting our abili...
17 Okt 202442min
Ep 133 Meetings that Don't Suck with Jonathan Vehar and Cathi Brese Doebler
One of the things that frankly drives me crazy about how people think about continuous improvement is a focus on cost savings rather than increasing productivity and engagement< so I was excited to ch...
10 Okt 202436min
Ep 132 The Hidden Side of Coaching with Kelly Mallery
Who are you when you are coaching? How are you presenting yourself to your learner? How might your inner emotional state affect your coaching effectiveness? Kelly Mallery coaches using the Toyota Im...
24 Sep 202432min
