Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
Business:Management
Healthcare leader, coach, and Kata Geek
https://www.leanblog.org/388
My guest for Episode #388 is my friend Michael Lombard. I first met Michael when he lived in the DFW area and first got into healthcare. He has been a Lean facilitator / coach in numerous healthcare organizations and has been a hospital CEO in Louisiana before taking his current role, again focusing on process improvement, at Kaiser Permanente in California.
Michael is doing a unique and, I think, groundbreaking keynote talk at the upcoming AME Virtual Conference. The session, which he invited me to moderate, is called "Striving together in a crisis: How improvement science can build resiliency in a crisis and perhaps even progress complex social issues." These crises include Covid-19, wildfires, and social injustice and unrest.
He will be incorporating videos by two physicians, Dr. Rita Ng and Dr. Carla Wicks and they will both be participating in the Q&A for this "conversation-style" keynote. Our podcast today is a preview of this session.
Michael and I also talk about how (and why) he got into healthcare and why the Toyota Kata methodology is so important to him.
Rachelle Schultz, CEO of Winona Health - Driving Lean in Her Health System
Dr. Greg Johnson, a Lean Thinking Chief Medical Officer on Healthcare Improvement
Patrick Vlaskovits and Brant Cooper, ’The Lean Entrepreneur’
Steve Bell, Author of ’Lean IT’ on Agile, Scrum, and Lean Startup - ’Run, Grow, Transform’
Dr. Joe Guarisco, Emergency Department Process Improvement through Lean
John Toussaint, MD, on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report, Best Care at Lower Cost
Art Byrne, Former CEO of Wiremold on The Lean Turnaround
Nick Sarillo, ’A Slice of the Pie’ - Leadership Lessons from a Pizza Chain*
Mike Stoecklein, Memories of Working with W. Edwards Deming
Jim Benson of Modus Cooperandi on ’Personal Kanban’ and Setting WIP Limits
Rick Morrow, Healthcare Process Improvement, High Reliability, and Lean Six Sigma
Psychologist Robert Maurer, PhD, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
Matt Stewart, ’Walk On,’ Lessons from Northwestern’s Unlikely Rose Bowl Run
Karen Martin, The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence
Jeffrey M. Lobosky, MD, ”It’s Enough to Make You Sick” - Problems in Healthcare and Health Reform
Gregory Jacobson, MD, CEO of KaiNexus on Kaizen in Emergency Medicine (Continuous Improvement)
Naida Grunden & Charles Hagood on ”Lean-Led Design” for Hospital Construction and Renovation
Scott Patten and Peter Armstrong, Founders of LeanPub.com, Part 2 on Lean Publishing
John Toussaint, MD, ”Potent Medicine” - Former CEO of ThedaCare
Natalie Sayer, ”Lean for Dummies”