Summary

In this podcast, I share a presentation about the employee-led improvements taking place at reuse nonprofit organizations Free Geek and The Rebuilding Center, with coaching and assistance from Lean Portland, a volunteer Benefit company of Lean consultants in Portland, Oregon. Free Geek is working on a daily management system and trying to increase the number of laptops they are processing each month. The Rebuilding Center has implemented changes to better process hardware donations for volunteers and staff. The presentation was given at the Association of Oregon Recyclers (AOR) Spring Forum on Reuse Systems and Organizations in Action on March 21, 2018 in Portland, Oregon. Speakers were Matt Horvat and Brion Hurley (Lean Portland), John Ashcraft (Free Geek) and Mike Alfoni (The Rebuilding Center).

Links

* Video of Presentation

* Lean Portland: https://leanportland.com/

* Free Geek: https://www.freegeek.org/

* The Rebuilding Center: https://www.rebuildingcenter.org/

* Association of Oregon Recyclers: http://oregonrecyclers.org/

* Business Performance Improvement: http://www.biz-pi.com

* Recycling Advocates: http://www.recyclingadvocates.org

Summary

In this podcast, I talk with Kelly Singer. She works at Institut Lean France and she started a group called Lean Green Institute. I talk to her about her experiences starting out in the US. She started in Eastern Washington, moved over to Seattle, and spent some time in Los Angeles, then went over to Paris, France a couple years ago, where she set up the Lean Green Institute.

We discuss the differences between Europe and the US and their sustainability initiatives, and her experiences, and how she sees the connection between “Lean and Green” as such a pivotal way of helping organizations achieve their corporate social responsibility. We also talk some nonprofit work she had done in the past, along my experiences and some of the things I’ve been working on.

I think you’ll really enjoy this interview.

Links

* Kelly Singer LinkedIn Profile

* Institut Lean France

* Lean Green Institute

* Lean Green Day – Steve Hope Toyota Presentation (English)

* Point B Consulting

* The Machine That Changed the World by Dan Jones and James Womack

* Lean Thinking by Dan Jones and James Womack

* Lean Strategy by Dan Jones and Michael Balle

* Dan Jones Profile

Summary

In this podcast, I recap this year and the things I discussed in podcasts. Topics ranged from reducing hours at work, leaving my job, transitioning into consulting, getting an office, hosting free workshops, discussing wasted food, book release, and more volunteering with Lean Portland. I also talk about some upcoming activities and projects in 2018.

To access the previous podcast episodes, go to http://leansixsigmaenvironment.org/index.php/category/podcast/

 

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Summary

In this podcast, I release the audio version of my new book titled “Lean Six Sigma for Good: How improvement experts can help people in need, and help improve the environment”

This book was written to motivate process improvement experts to get more involved with social and environmental issues in their community through nonprofit volunteering of your skills.

You can listen to the entire book in less than an hour. You can also buy it from Audible for under $3.

If you want to download the digital version (PDF, ePub, Mobi or web-version), visit the site at: https://leanpub.com/leansixsigmaforgood/

For paperback versions, you can order from my website at BPI (preferred) or Amazon

Summary

In this podcast, I share my thoughts on a recent book called “Drawdown” by Paul Hawken, which explains “the 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world.”

I discuss a few of the top solutions, and how I am supporting them. The book covers many different solutions, so I copied the table of contents for your review.

The major categories are:

* Energy

* Food

* Women and Girls

* Building and Cities

* Land Use

* Transport

* Materials

* Coming Attractions

Links

* Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken

* Project Drawdown Website

The Top 10 list

* Refrigeration Management

* Wind Turbines (onshore)

* Reduced Food Waste

* Plant-rich Diet

* Tropical Forests

* Educating Girls

* Family Planning

* Solar Farms

* Silvopasture

* Rooftop Solar

* Podcast #22: Lean Six Sigma and Wasted Food workshop

* Podcast #20: Lean Six Sigma and Wasted Food

* Solar Production on my Florida home

* Everybody Solar donations from BPI

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Summary

On this podcast, I share my experiences with leaving my corporate job and moving into full-time consulting. I haven’t had a podcast episode in a few months, so I wanted to give an update to everyone on what I’ve been doing, and how I’ve been transitioning into working for myself.

Links

* Business Performance Improvement (BPI) – my consulting website

* LeanSixSigmaforGood.com

* Hatch Innovation Lab

* WASTE Walk Challenge (Episode #11)

* Port of Portland Wasted Food presentation

* Kjell Van Zoen

* Lean Portland

Transcript

It’s been awhile since I’ve last recorded a podcast, so I thought I’d give you guys an update on what’s going on. I’ve got a couple other topics I’m going to go through in my future podcasts, but I got a lot of info to share, and some of you expressed some interest in following my journey going from a long time corporate job to my own consulting. I thought I’d give you an update, and if you are not interested in that, you can fast forward and wait for the next one. So in July, end of July, I left my job at Rockwell Collins after 18 years. It was a great experience, I loved working there, loved the work and the people. I learned to so much there, and it was an awesome experience.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been wanting to go out on my own for a while, and I just kept getting more interest in the Portland area, on topics that I was really passionate about, and really excited me. I gradually started to work my way out of there.

I had enough other activity going on with some training opportunities that came up that I was able to make that transition. Basically, I’m doing some training for another consulting company SixSigma.US, and that’s been a good transition out of full time employment to cover bills. It’s also be really great to get out and teach and talk to a lot of different businesses, a lot of different organizations, and kind of get into a different mode than what I’ve been used to. I’ve had some experiences outside of aerospace, but this has definitely opened up my eyes a lot more, and given me more things to consider and talk about (in terms of processes), and how lean and six sigma apply. So that’s been going well, I’ve been keeping busy with that. I’ve also been trying to build up some work locally, so I can start to pursue all the things we’ve been talking about with other organizations in terms of reducing environmental impacts, and trying to get people who have these skills to go and volunteer and help out these nonprofits, and other organizations that need the help.

I’ve been putting on quite a few free workshops, and I broke them up into 3-hour buckets. Some are just generic tool training around lean and six sigma, and then I got some around lean and green. I’ve also been partnering up with Kjell van Zoen, who you saw in

Summary

On this podcast, I share my experiences with owning an electric vehicle. There are many advantages, but also some disadvantages. Hopefully I can shed some light for you, as there may be confusion about whether it’s a good option for you.

From a lean perspective, I talk about the DOE I conducted on the battery life, the employee engagement from our Electric Vehicle Show-and-Tell, and the concept of total cost of ownership.

Summary

On this podcast, I share the actual audio from the “Reducing Food Waste Workshop: A Lean and Six Sigma Approach” given on April 28th, 2017, hosted by the Port of Portland, which is located at the Portland International Airport (PDX).

I mentioned this workshop in Podcast #20, if you want to hear the background on how this workshop came together, along with my thoughts on the workshop.

If you prefer, you can watch the video from the workshop below (includes videos heard in podcast)…

Links

* Port of Portland

* Kjell Van Zoen

Summary

On this podcast, I talk about some work I’ve done recently to try and improve the office supply purchasing decisions, using the Greener Office program through Office Depot.

I explain how we took the initial report of our “green score,” and how we have started to apply the DMAIC Six Sigma project approach to tackle this issue, specifically around recycled paper purchasing. I’ll explain how we are approaching it, so that we don’t simply add cost to the company without trying to better understand the printing process that is driving the usage.

Links

* Office Depot Greener Office Program

* Paper Carbon Calculator Tool (PaperCalculator.org)

Sustainable Purchasing And Disposal Decision Guide – Step-by-Step questions on how to purchase and dispose of items you buy, to help you make the most environmentally-friendly decisions.

 

 

 

Summary

On this podcast, I talk about a recent presentation I gave at the Port of Portland (at the Portland airport).

I was asked to present on how Lean and Six Sigma can be used to help reduce food waste. There is a big effort to make reductions in the Portland area, and we had attendees from local counties, city government and state agencies. Kjell Van Zoen co-presented with me.

I will be posting a link to the video and slides in the near future.

Links

* Port of Portland