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:
Interview with Pascal Dennis on His Lean Business Novel ‘The Remedy’
Norman Bodek, "How to Do Kaizen" Part 1 *
Bob Miller on Dr. Stephen Covey and the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence
Jim Hearn on Lean to Improve Patient Care in NHS England (National Health Service)
Mike Micklewright, Out of Another @#&*% Crisis
Interview with Dr. Stephen Covey on Respect for People, Lean, and Toyoda *
Tim Turner on Toyota Kentucky (TMMK) and the Book ’One Team on All Levels’
Keith Russell, Lean in Pharmaceuticals Research & Development
Jim Baran, Lean Talent Management
Prof. Steven J. Spear on Applications of Lean in Healthcare *
David Sundahl, "Adaptive Design" in Healthcare
David Meier on Toyota’s Quality Challenges, a Lean Thinker’s Perspective
Karl Wadensten, VIBCO and "The Lean Nation"
CEO Jim D’Addario on Lean Manufacturing Saving & Creating Jobs as Part of Business Strategy
Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S., More Lean in Dentistry, Flow, Manufacturing Plants, and More *
Rob Bryant, Lean at CSC
Christmas Parody: Gemba Claus is Comin’ to Town
Joan Wellman, a Pioneer of the Application Lean in Healthcare
Eve Yen, CEO of Diamond Wipes on Manufacturing Close to the Customer
Sorrel King, "Josie's Story" and Patient Safety