Lean Frontline

Dan is a continuous improvement expert with cross functional experience in operations, engineering, asset care, operational excellence, project management, and health and safety. He shares his thoughts about ways to build trust and truly understand the problems people face, how to make a problem as visual as possible to help everyone solve it together, and how to apply proven continuous improvement tools to solve business problems. 

Known as “The Guy in the Blue Shirt,” Bruce helps high-potential team members, team leaders and business owners save or eliminate massive amounts of wasted process steps-time and money.  A proponent of the #SimplerFasterBetter methodology, Bruce helps clients apply process improvement and Lean six-sigma methodologies to all initiatives. 

Lean consultant Nate Barber brings 18+ years of experience to talk about how lean and culture is more important than ever during an unprecedented pandemic. Learn why now is the perfect time to find new ways to improve systems and practices.

Professor Brad Miller uses his real life business experiences and applications to demonstrate how lean concepts can not only be applied to business practices, but his grad student’s everyday lives. Rather than simply teach the concept of lean, Brad brings the principles and experience to them.

Shingo Award winning author Michael Bremer has created a playbook on how to become a better leader and what are they doing to elevate average performers inside their organization. He discloses the four attributes of a successful leader in a truly excellent organization.

Steven Kane reveals how the learnings of a thirty minute factory walk changed the trajectory of his lean culture and initiatives. Learn how application of Customer Success can put out fires before they even appear. 

Marcia Daszco explains her own paradigm shift inspired by Dr. Edwards Deming and Dr. Perry Gluckman which led to her actively challenging beliefs and assumptions about everything, from standard work methods and beliefs to the existence of grades in the education system.

Self Proclaimed Lean Maniac Paul Akers shares how his lean ideology stems from the humbling experience where two Japanese lean consultants reduced one of his manufacturing processes by 900%. Paul now applies lean to nearly every aspect of his life.

Andrei Anca understands that each and every frontline worker is absolutely key in driving successful kaizen initiatives. He explains how your own frontline workers may be your most powerful and untapped resource, and how they can bring more value than any consultant or new technology.

Dan Markovitz tackles an issue that hasn't yet been resolved despite the dozens of books out there: alienation of those unfamiliar with lean. He use his unique background as a running coach to make the concept of lean more relatable by combining fitness concepts with lean.