In this podcast, I share a webinar that I gave to the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (as a board member of the Sustainable Development Division).

The webinar is titled “Process Improvement Nonprofit Volunteering with Local IISE Chapters”

I share some background on our Lean Portland group, and how it is connected to the local Portland chapter. I also shared some examples of work done in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Atlanta (presented by Greg Smith).

Links

* IISE* IISE Sustainable Development Division* IISE Portland Chapter* Lean Portland* Watch the webinar with slides* Download the slides (PDF)

Transcript

Carol (C):  Thank you

for joining us today for the webcast Process Improvement Nonprofit Volunteering

with Local IISE Chapters presented by the Sustainable Development Division. I’m

Carol LeBlanc and I’m today’s moderator. And now, I’ll turn things over to

today’s presenters, Brion Hurley and Greg Smith.

Brion (B):  Thanks,

Carol. This is Brion calling in from Portland and Greg is on here as well from

Atlanta.

Greg (G):  Hey Brion,

hi everybody.

B:  What I’d like to do

is we wanted to share some activity that different chapters have been doing

around this concept of process improvement nonprofit volunteering and so we’ll talk

through a couple of examples. Tiff is not able to join us today, she’s got some

important stuff going on at work, so I’m going to cover her peace with the

Seattle Puget Sound chapter.

The idea here was to try to share some of the activity that

is happening and then, hopefully, through our successes and some of our

struggles, you’ll have a better idea of how your chapter could, potentially,

reach out to local nonprofits and start to practice your skills and give back

to the community and help them see some of the benefits of the skill set that

we have and also engage your chapter and build some momentum for the people who

are involved and wanting to learn more or practice their skills.

The Sustainable Development Division is a group I’ve been

involved with since I think around 2013. I think it’s been around a little bit

longer than that, just by a year or two. It’s a fairly new division compared to

other divisions, but what our mission is, is to advance the general welfare of

humankind by applying resources and creative abilities of the industrial

engineering profession to the development of sustainable societies. What we

looked at was the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and those are