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:
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
Bob Emiliani, Lean and Frank Woollard
Dr. David Jaques, Lean in Surgical Services
Peter T. Ward, Lean Education Academic Network
Roy Vasher, Toyota Supply Chain Management
Doug Burgess, Xerox Lean Six Sigma
Dr. John Toussaint, Lean and Health Reform
Patrick Anderson, Chugatchmiut, Part 2
Tamra Kaplan, COO of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S., The Lean Dentist on His Book ’Follow the Learner’ *
Ben Harrison, The Role of the CEO in Lean
Matt May, "In Pursuit of Elegance"
Joe Rizzo, AME Annual Conference
Kevin Frieswick, Error Proofing Hospital Hand Washing
John Shook on A3 Problem Solving and His Book ’Managing to Learn’ *
Jamie Flinchbaugh, "Coaching"