Connecting the Dots

Perry Marshall is one of the most expensive business strategists in the world. He is endorsed in FORBES and INC Magazine and has authored eight books. At London’s Royal Society he announced the world’s largest science research challenge, the $10 million Evolution 2.0 Prize. His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review, and his Google book laid the foundations for the $100 billion Pay Per Click industry. He has a degree in Engineering and lives with his family in Chicago.

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Chris Butterworth is a multi-award-winning author, speaker, and coach. He is a certified Shingo Institute master-level facilitator and a Shingo Institute Faculty Fellow and examiner. He is the winner of Best New Speaker of the Year Award for The Executive Connection (TEC) for his talk on Lean Thinking and the co-author of the widely acclaimed Shingo publication award winning books 4+1: Embedding a Culture of Continuous Improvement and The Essence of Excellence and is also the editor of the Shingo Institute book Enterprise Alignment and Results.

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Widely recognized as an expert in lean principles, Mohan spent 18 years at McKinsey & Company (including 6 years as Senior Partner/Director), where he co-created the lean service operations

practice, ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As the founder and CEO of LeanTaaS, Mohan has worked closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, UCSF, New-York Presbyterian and more digitally transform core operational processes.  LeanTaaS uses lean principles, machine learning, and predictive analytics to digitally transform core operational processes in healthcare.

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Neonatologist Erick Ridout, MD, has helped care for hundreds of preemies needing critical care. His work with other clinicians and caregivers to reduce “POKES” (reducing needle draws in preemies) has significantly improved care and outcomes, while saving millions of dollars. He shares his published POKE research with clinicians across the country.

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Dr. Sunil Khushalani and Dr. Antonio DePaolo speak about their new book Transforming Mental Healthcare, Applying Performance Improvement Methods to Mental Healthcare. This book is a primer for understanding the current state of the mental health system and the performance improvement skills and leadership acumen needed to address existing challenges.

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Patrick Graupp began his training career at

the SANYO Electric Corporate Training Center in Kobe, Japan, after graduating

with highest honors from Drexel University in 1980. There he learned to deliver

TWI and other training to prepare employees for assignment outside of Japan. He

was transferred to a compact disc fabrication plant in Indiana, where he

obtained manufacturing experience before returning to Japan to lead SANYO’s

global training effort. Graupp earned an MBA from Boston University during this

time and was later promoted to the head of Human Resources for SANYO North

America Corp. in San Diego, California, where he settled.

Graupp

delivered a pilot project in 2001 to reintroduce TWI in the United States. The

positive results encouraged him to leave SANYO in 2002 to deliver the TWI

program on a wider scale throughout the United States in the same manner as he

had been taught in Japan. He described this in his book The TWI Workbook:

Essential Skills for Supervisors, a Shingo Research and Professional

Publication Prize recipient for 2007. With colleagues in Syracuse, NY he helped

found the TWI Institute which has developed over 3,000 certified trainers who

teach TWI on six continents in over 30 countries in 18 languages. He is the

author of numerous books on TWI including Creating an Effective Management

System: Integrating Policy Deployment, TWI, and Kata which was published in

2020.

Martha

Purrier is a registered nurse with over 30 years of experience in the

health care setting. She earned a master’s degree specializing in the clinical

care of patients with cancer and in the training of nurses. During the past 20

years, she has worked at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington,

in a variety of positions: Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Director of

Inpatient Oncology and IV Services, Director of the Kaizen Promotion Office and

Director of Nursing Services at Bailey-Boushay House. Virginia Mason adopted

Lean as a management methodology in 2001, and Purrier was certified in Rapid

Process Improvement Workshops in 2006. During her work in IV therapy, the team

won the Mary McClinton Patient Safety award for the application of Lean

methods, which produced increased safety for patients receiving central lines.

In 2008, Purrier was appointed to the Kaizen Fellowship Program. She is a

certified instructor of the TWI Job Instruction program and has spoken

internationally on the application of TWI and Lean to health care.

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Joe

is an

entrepreneur, adventurer and transformation guy privileged to have held the

role of CEO, COO, partner, and president, currently serving as the CEO of

Performance Tea.  Joe is the founder of The High Performance Life (THPL),

a philosophy and guide to learn techniques for mental toughness, creative

problem solving, leadership, and personal effectiveness. His prime focus is on

practices in the areas of Life, Learning and Fitness for personal fulfillment

and improving human performance in all walks of life. He has been blogging,

every day, for the past seven years and some say that Joe is a passionate

endurance athlete, having completed six Ironman triathlons, 40 ultra-marathons,

and 35 marathons.  In 2017, Joe ran Six Marathons across Six Continents on

Six Consecutive days.  Joe has been featured in national periodicals from

the New York Times to Inc. Magazine and has been featured on the History

Channel, CNN and Fox News Live.  This blog is designed to bring together

elements of how to improve performance across Life, Learning and Fitness.

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Rick May,

MD, Senior Principal, Orthopedic Surgeon.  Rick brings

over 20 years of experience in the health care industry. His areas of expertise

and professional skills include creating clinical quality improvement programs

for hospitals and physician groups, clinical supply integration strategy,

service line optimization, and building actionable solutions to clinical

challenges using health care data and analytics. Among his key achievements and

accomplishments, Rick achieved 30-60 percent reductions in hospital mortality

and complications by implementing evidence-based best practice systems at multiple

hospitals. He has delivered over 1,000 presentations on health care quality and

value to thousands of physicians, nurses, hospital staff and executive teams.

Prior to joining Vizient, Rick worked for almost 20 years as

an orthopedic surgeon in Denver specializing in general orthopedics and ortho

trauma surgery. He ran the orthopedic trauma programs at four Denver-area

hospitals. Rick worked for over 10 years with Ascent Clinical Quality

Improvement and Healthgrades as the leader of their clinical quality

improvement consulting teams. In these roles, he worked with over 100 U.S.

hospitals on clinical quality improvement projects in multiple clinical areas

including orthopedic and spine surgery, CT surgery, heart failure, sepsis,

stroke, pneumonia and surgical perioperative optimization. He is a frequent

speaker in the areas of quality, data analytics and clinical quality

improvement. Previously, he served as senior medical director at Pinnacol

Assurance, Colorado’s largest workers’ compensation insurance carrier. Rick led

all of Pinnacol’s clinical data analytics and program development related to

improving care for injured workers.

Prior to starting clinical practice, Rick completed graduate

work in advanced mathematics, analytics and biostatistics. He also worked as a

researcher and computer programmer for NASA in the Life Sciences Division at

the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

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Clint Padgett joined PSI (Project Success Incorporated) in 1994,

eventually buying the company in 2005. Since the early days, Clint and his

teams have helped some of the world’s biggest brands—like Coca-Cola—implement

more efficient, accountable, and reliable project management practices. PSI

works with Fortune 1,000 companies across the globe to make agile,

cross-functional business outcome optimization processes more than a temporary

engagement with a strategic partner, but rather a lasting part of

organizational culture that helps teams execute on-time, on-budget, and on-spec

well into the future.

After 37 years, PSI success stories include planning and

executing projects at 15 Olympics, 11 world soccer events, managing hundreds of

products from conception to market over the course of four decades working with

companies like Caterpillar, and training over 41,000 individuals on the Project

Success Methodology, to name just a few.

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Dr. Alan Herline is chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery for Memorial Healthcare System. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He then went on to complete a residency in general surgery from Vanderbilt and a fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery from the Lahey Clinic. In the episode, we discuss challenges in continuous improvement in surgery as well as the success of the Enhanced Recovery after Surgery program.

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