Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
Business:Management
Episode page: https://www.leanblog.org/444
My guest for Episode #444 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Michele Smith. She is CEO and an Executive Coach with her firm Better Possibilities, LLC.
Michele is the former director for the Sutter Improvement System at Sutter Health. She is a Catalysis faculty member and she is is leading a workshop June 7th at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit called Winning the People Side of Transformation in Salt Lake City. The Summit is being held June 6 to 9 (with the main days being the 8th and 9th). I hope to see you at the Summit.
Michele is a dedicated Executive/Leadership Coach with extensive experience coaching individuals across all levels of the organization. She has broad experience as a designated leader and change management consultant, with expertise in team building, leadership development, and facilitation/coaching of leadership to arrive at an organizational strategy with aligned goals, solutions, and ultimately culture change.
Today, we discuss topics and questions including:
Dan Florizone, Lean in Saskatchewan, Government Health and Education Sectors
Judy Worth & Tom Shuker, Perfecting Patient Journeys, Lean Value Streams in Healthcare
Drew Greenblatt, President of Marlin Wire on Lean and Competing Against Cheap Chinese Imports
Bob Emiliani, Nobody Is Exempt From Improvement - Lean Leadership
Norman Bodek, on ’The Harada Method: The Spirit of Self-Reliance’ *
Mike Taubitz on Lean and Safety, Dr. Deming, General Motors and Paul O’Neill
John Hunter, on His Book ’Management Matters,’ Dr. Deming, and More
Alan Gleghorn, CEO of Christie Clinic on Lean, Shingo, and Learning from Manufacturing
Jerry Bussell, Anatomy of a Lean Leader and Abraham Lincoln’s Example
Chad Walters, Applications of Lean in Sports Operations and Business
Stephen Parry, on His Book ’Sense and Respond,’ How Lean Engages Employees to Provide Customer Value
Len Berry, PhD on "The Promise of Lean in Healthcare"
Carolyn McCulley, "Breaking the Wall of Silence"
Claire Crawford-Mason, Producer of Dr. W. Edwards Deming Videos
Julie Bartels, Healthcare Clinical Business Intelligence at Catalysis
Chris Vogel, Lean in Adminstrative Settings: Office, Financial, and Banking
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’