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“THE EDGES OF LEAN”

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The Edges of Lean

Ep 104 Continuous Improvement and Spanning Leadership with Wanda Wallace
Ep Success requires expertise, and today’s work world requires leaders to lead beyond their areas of personal skills. Wanda Wallace calls this “spanning” leadership, and she works with leaders to build their success in leading across functions and domains where they have little expertise. Wanda is the author of "You Can’t Know It All: […]
Ep 103 Continuous Improvement and Process Science with Sam Drauschak
Sam Drauschak is a leader in Process Science – his work is to help organizations achieve maximum efficiency in business processes and energy flow. He has even developed a universal process mapping language adopted as the standard for multiple large enterprises globally. Sam joined me at the Edges of Lean to share his insights on […]
Ep 102 Continuous Improvement and the Passion for Art with Kevo
Kevo, a full-time artist who is also a painter, film, and theater producer, and art teacher, joins me here at The Edges of Lean to share his inspiring story of overcoming a troubled childhood, jail time, and a gunshot wound to pursue his passion for art. There is a lot to consider in this […]
Ep 101 Continuous Improvement and Hidden Disabilities with Katherine McCord
Katherine McCord was the little girl who played HR rather than princesses, and when other kids were selling lemonade, she sold shares in her imaginary "company". She even fired her mother when she was five years old. Katherine, a physically and neurodiverse woman, built her career on inclusive innovation in People Operations and HR […]
Ep 100 Continuous Improvement and Engineering the Life of Your Dreams with Zach White
Hey, this is The Edges of Lean’s 100th episode! So I’m starting today with a message of gratitude to all of my listeners. Thank you for your support of the Edges of Lean! And if you are a listener who would like to tell your story on the Edges of Lean, reach out to […]
Ep 99 Continuous Improvement and Dyslexia with Lois Letchford
When you work with your employees or clients, what assumptions are you making about their reading skills? If you are like me, you might assume that almost everyone you work with reads easily, but that is likely untrue. Lois Letchford joined me at the Edges of Lean to talk about her experience as the […]
Ep 98 Continuous Improvement and Staying Flowcused with Stéfany Oliver
An essential principle of lean thinking is “one-piece flow.” One way of looking at that is to focus on finishing what you start before you take on other tasks, whether building a car in a factory or managing paperwork. But our lives constantly call us to multitask and take on more than we can complete, […]
Ep 97 Continuous Improvement and Intentional Leadership with Shana Francesca
I love to interview people with unusual career paths. Shana Francesca started her career as an interior designer. Her work in intentionally creating physical environments that supported people’s needs led her into coaching leaders in intentional leadership to build effective and efficient and healthy work environments. Let’s hear Shana’s story! Shana Francesca Shana […]
Ep 96 Continuous Improvement and the Japanese Abacus with Sensei Miwako
Miwako Bukres has taken the honorific “sensei" – teacher. She is not a lean sensei but a beloved teacher of the Japanese abacus. She’s here to tell us what we can learn about Japanese culture by developing the practices of learning from failure and discipline and encouraging clear analytical thinking using the ancient Japanese […]
Ep 95 Continuous Improvement and Perfect Attendance with Harriet Stein
Harriet Stein would like us to pay attention. Paying attention is an absolute necessity for lean practitioners – but it is not something we all find easy – or even know how to start practicing. Harriet kindly spent some time with me at the Edges of Lean explaining how to build our attentiveness skills […]
Ep 94 Continuous Improvement and Raising Consciousness with Catherine Llewellyn
Catherine Llewellyn is a humanistic psychologist who coaches and consults with business leaders who want to "go up a level" whether that is personally or in their business. I spoke with Catherine here at the Edges of Lean to learn what humanistic psychology is and how she helps these leaders raise their consciousness and […]
Ep 93 Continuously Improving Your Voice with John Henny
Do you like your voice? Does your voice help you to get your message across? How do you take care of your voice? John Henny is a voice coach who works with speakers to help them use their voices to be more compelling and influential, and he is here at The Edges of Lean […]
Wp 92 Continuous Improvement and Getting Published with Karl Beckstrand
Are you thinking of writing a book? Did you write a book? Are you wondering about getting your book out in the world? College media instructor Karl W. Beckstrand is the best-selling author/illustrator of twenty-seven multicultural/multilingual books. He is here at the Edges of Lean to help us take advantage of his lessons learned […]
Ep 91 Continuous Improvement and Scalability with Brad Eisenberg
Brad Eisenberg of BE Lean is a scalability consultant with over 15 years of experience as a Founder, COO, and consultant. He works with growing businesses that are at the point where everything that used to be fun and easy has become messy and complex. Brad is here at the Edges of Lean to […]
Ep 90 Continuous Improvement and the Most Important Goal with Jim Gitney
Jim Gitney has been coaching and consulting for decades and, over the years, has seen many strategies fail because of poor execution. He knew there had to be a better way to bridge strategy and results. He developed the Business Hierarchy of Needs to clearly show how to make the decisions that lead to […]
Ep 89 Continuous Improvement with Games! with Alexandra Suchman
If you are a continuous improvement professional, you probably use some games in the training you deliver – maybe as an ice-breaker or perhaps as a simulation to teach a tool. But have you ever wondered how far you can take game-playing to build a team or create a culture? Alex is a woman on […]
Ep 88 Continuous Improvement and Intelligent Automation with Lauren Hisey
The bots are here, and lean and continuous improvement practitioners see that organizations are eager to take advantage of the capabilities of artificial intelligence – or my guest Lauren Hisey calls it, intelligent automation. Lauren is here to demystify AI and share how continuous improvers can make peace with it – and use it effectively […]
Ep 87 Continuously Improving Your Knowledge Management with Dr. Cindy Young
Every time we use our lean practices to define and solve a problem, we create knowledge. How can we improve our organizational recognition and management of all that newly created knowledge – which is key to not having the same problem occur again? It turns out that knowledge management itself requires a process and continuous […]
Ep 86 Continuous Improvement and Compassionate Coaching with Erin Whalen
Erin Whalen is a coach whose practice is focused on serving the people who work with the grieving and dying: bereavement professionals who need perhaps more than anyone to be seen, heard, and supported. Erin comes to coaching through the path of acting and the art of improvisation. She utilizes the tools she's learned through […]
Ep 85 Continuous Improvement and Coaching Leaders with Kyle Gillette
Kyle Gillette is a leadership coach. He coaches business leaders – but not all his clients wear a white collar and work in offices. Kyle works with leaders and aspiring leaders from all walks of life with a special focus on what we sometimes call “blue-collar” work. Kyle’s career path has taken him from men's […]

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