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:
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”
CEO Dean Gruner, MD, Lean & Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) at ThedaCare
Mark Graban & Ron Pereira (Gemba Academy): SPC Webinar Q&A, Statistical Process Control and Management
Eric Ries on How Taiichi Ohno’s Ideas Shaped the Evolution of Lean Startup *
Norman Bodek Remembers Taiichi Ohno of Toyota Production System Fame *
LeanPub.com Founders, Peter Armstrong & Scott Patten (Part 1) - Lean Publishing
David Munch, MD of Healthcare Performance Partners on Lean for Clinical and Non-Clinical Processes
Al Norval on the Lean Pathways ”Manifesto” on Lean Business Systems
Jerry Bussell on the Jacksonville Lean Consortium