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A Supervisor’s Strategy to Make Lean Stick

By Steve Kane - May 20th, 2016

By Steve Kane Michelle Trejo is a production supervisor for Specialty Silicone Fabricators, Inc. in Paso Robles, California. She believes in Lean and she believes in her people. Michelle has many leadership successes to her credit.

GA 111 | How to Teach Continuous Improvement with Dr. Bradley Miller

By Jessica Bush - May 19th, 2016

Today’s guest is Dr. Bradley Miller, a professor at the University of Houston. Brad explained to us how he teaches his students about continuous improvement, and how they then apply those skills to real life situations. An MP3

GA 109 | How to Leverage Toyota Kata with Brandon Brown

By Jessica Bush - May 5th, 2016

Today’s guest is Brandon Brown, the owner of Continuous Coaching Commitment LLC and an associate with the W3 Group LLC. Brandon shared his knowledge of Toyota Kata with us, and explained how it complements TWI. An MP3 version o

GA 108 | How to Use Job Relations to Solve Problems with Oscar Roche

By Jessica Bush - April 28th, 2016

Today’s guest is Oscar Roche, a Director at the TWI Institute Australia and Visual Workplace Australasia. Oscar and Ron discussed TWI, with a particular emphasis on the JR, or Job Relations component. An MP3 version of this epi

GA 107 | How to Leverage TWI with Patrick Graupp

By Jessica Bush - April 21st, 2016

Today’s guest is Patrick Graupp, Senior Master Trainer at the TWI Institute. Patrick gave us an overview of TWI, or Training Within Industry, including a brief breakdown of the three main components. TWI is a very powerful tool

Inspiring a Bias for Action

By Steve Kane - April 15th, 2016

Jamie Parker practices Lean and is passionate about learning and sharing Lean leadership. She has 15 years’ experience in operations management / leadership across retail, service, and manufacturing environments. Jamie serves as

GA 106 | How to Understand the Nature of Transformation

By Jessica Bush - April 14th, 2016

Today’s guest is Dr. Darlene Dumont, the Public Service Program Director for LEI, or Lean Enterprise Institute. Darlene shared some of the projects she’s worked on throughout her impressive career and explained the value of

GA 105 | How to Improve Your Business with Change Management with Paul Brand

By Jessica Bush - April 7th, 2016

Today’s guest is Paul Brand, a change management consultant from the Netherlands. Paul wrote a book called Change Your Mind, Change Your Business, and he shared with us why he wrote it, what it’s about, and how change man

GA 104 | How to Apply Lean to Your State with Alison Fisher

By Jessica Bush - March 31st, 2016

Today’s episode features Alison Fisher, the Program Director of Lean CT. Alison oversees the lean efforts for the entire state of Connecticut, which is obviously no small feat. It was fascinating to hear her take on how lean can

GA 103 | Our Favorite Episodes

By Jessica Bush - March 24th, 2016

Today’s episode is a little different. We asked the Gemba Academy team to tell us their favorite episodes to date, and compiled some powerful excerpts to share with all of you. This is truly a diverse set of stories, advice, an

More Than Metrics

By Steve Kane - March 18th, 2016

By Steve Kane I’ve had some conversations recently about what a successful lean journey looks like. Of course, we talked about key performance indicators and monitoring metrics. As the saying goes, not everything that can be coun

GA 102 | Sustaining Your Lean Journey with William Harvey

By Jessica Bush - March 17th, 2016

Today’s guest is William Harvey, a former U.S. Marine with over a decade of experience in the printing and consumer packaging industries. William and Ron discuss strategy and culture, specifically what it takes to keep a lean jou

GA 101 | How to Implement a Lean Culture with Steven Leuschel

By Jessica Bush - March 10th, 2016

Today’s guest is Steven Leuschel, author of Lean Culture Change. He and I discuss the contents of the book, which focuses on the critical people component of lean. This An MP3 version of this episode is available for download her

The Other Flow of Csíkszentmihályi

By Kevin Meyer - March 4th, 2016

Those of us in the Lean world are accustomed to discussing “flow” – where work is performed in an even manner to reduce mura. Activities are synchronized, layouts are optimized, resources are available exactly where a

GA 100 | How to Survive with Matt May

By Jessica Bush - March 3rd, 2016

Today’s episode marks a very special milestone for the Gemba Academy podcast. To celebrate our 100th episode, we brought back our first ever guest, Matt May. Matt shares the story of how he died (yes, you read that right), told f

GA 099 | How to Motivate People with Ron Pereira

By Jessica Bush - February 25th, 2016

Today we’re sharing the audio version of a keynote presentation Ron gave to The Woodbridge Group, a Canadian company and Gemba Academy customer. This episode contains a lot of great information on both motivation and cultu

Say No

By Steve Kane - February 19th, 2016

By Steve Kane I’ve recently committed to more short-term responsibilities in and out of work than I should have. We’ve all be in this situation before, leaving ourselves with insufficient time to meet all the demands we’ve put

GA 098 | How to Apply Lean to Sales and Marketing with Joe Dager

By Jessica Bush - February 18th, 2016

Today’s guest is Joe Dager, President of Business901, a firm that specializes in helping companies apply lean to their sales and marketing departments. Joe and I discuss the many ways continuous improvement can be used to improve

Learn How to Present Like Steve Jobs & Simon Sinek

By Ron Pereira - February 12th, 2016

Over the last few years I’ve started to do more and more keynote presentations in front of live audiences. And, while I love doing these live talks it’s much different than shooting a video in our studio or on the road during a

GA 097 | How to Apply Lean to the Military with Samuel Selay

By Jessica Bush - February 11th, 2016

Today’s guest is Samuel Selay, a Continuous Improvement Manager for the United States Marines Corps. Samuel and I discuss his continuous improvement journey and some of the incredible projects he’s done with the military.

GA 096 | How to Build a Lean Community with Dr. Eric Olsen

By Jessica Bush - February 4th, 2016

Today’s guest is Dr. Eric Olsen, a professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in California. Dr. Olsen and I discuss the lean community he’s helped to build on the Central Coast of California, the Central Coast Lean Summit, and

GA 095 | How to Practice Lean from the Heart with Karl Wadensten

By Jessica Bush - January 28th, 2016

Today’s episode features a keynote from VIBCO Vibrators President Karl Wadensten at the 2015 Iowa Lean Consortium conference. Titled “Lean from the Heart,” Karl explores the emotions and thought processes behind lean

GA 094 | How to Embrace Lean with Bob Rush

By Jessica Bush - January 21st, 2016

Today’s guest is Bob Rush, a Lean Manufacturing Group Leader at Tesla Motors. Bob shares a lot of truly valuable advice based on his own personal lean journey, including some great stories that will both entertain and inspire y

The Only Genuine Knowledge Is That of Actual Experience

By Steve Kane - January 15th, 2016

“The only genuine knowledge is that of actual experience.” ~ Chinese proverb Training is a big part of lean transformation. Countless hours and dollars are spent in training rooms, seminars, and classrooms every year. It’s comm

GA 093 | How to Start a Lean Initiative with Blake Watermeier

By Jessica Bush - January 14th, 2016

Today’s guest is Blake Watermeier, Regional VP of Operations at ARC Document Solutions. Blake and I discuss the process of starting a new lean initiative and the obstacles that often follow. This episode complements last weekR

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