In this first podcast renamed as “Lean Six Sigma for Good” (formerly called “Earth Consultants”), I explain the change in podcast title and purpose.

In the audio, I share a presentation I gave at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN in early December, to share my experiences apply Lean and Six Sigma to nonprofits and at my past employers.

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Below is the video from the presentation.

Later that day, we observed the campus mail room, to look for opportunities, and heard about ReThink Wabash, a local nonprofit looking for help with improvement projects.

Links

* Dr. Diane Evans (LinkedIn)* Food Waste project summary video

* Lean Six Sigma for Good (free book)* Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) – Engineering Management Department* LeanSixSigmaForGood.com (new home for podcast content)

Transcript

Dr. Diane Evans (DE):  So anyway,

thank you for coming. So I brought a great speaker. I met Brion I think like

two or three years ago. I was doing a presentation at a Six Sigma conference

and the presentation was project I had done with St. Pat’s K-8 school. St.

Pat’s is a private school and we were trying to add food share or food rescue

tables there. So that’s when if a kid finishes his lunch and has an extra milk

or banana or an orange, something he hasn’t touched, he can leave it at the

table and then another student that wants it can pick it up. So it helps to

reduce some of the hunger, maybe, that some of the children are experiencing in

the afternoon or when they go home.

But the true

reason we wanted to do this was to get it in the public schools. The public

schools wouldn’t let us do this because they were worried about the risk of

what if they set out on a piece of food, another student ate it and got sick,