Lean Leadership Podcast
by Chris Burnham
A weekly thirty-minute podcast featuring compelling stories from leaders and authors in the Lean, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement field like Mark Graban, Jamie Flinchbaugh, Karen Martin, and Andy Carlino. Learn What do they consider their biggest setback or challenge in their lean journey? (Hint: They are just like you, and they got through what is holding you back.) What do they consider their a-ha or success moment in their career? What tools and resources do they use to achieve success? What advice do they give to the individual just starting out on their Lean journey?What advice do they give the experienced professional to help them achieve next-level success?
Episodes
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Episode 071: John Dyer - The Façade of Excellence: Defining a New Normal of Leadership
Today’s guest is John Dyer John is President of his firm John Dyer and Associates located in Mooresville, North Carolina. John started his career at General Electric and later moved to Ingersoll-Rand where he was VP of Operations for their Safety and Security division. John had the benefit of...
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Episode 070: Nick Katko - The Role of Lean Accounting in Continuous Improvement
Today’s guest is Nick Katko. Nick is the President and owner of BMA. For over 30 years, Nick has leveraged his lean accounting experience and philosophy in assisting BMA clients in developing, leading, and coaching them in their lean accounting transformations. Nick has worked with companies…
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Episode 069: Peter Docker - Leading From The Jumpseat
Happy New Year. I hope your 2022 is filled with all of the personal and professional success that you endeavor to achieve. I’m really excited about our first guest this year, Peter Docker. Peter is inspired by seeing others harness what makes each of us extraordinary as human beings. He enables...
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Episode 068: Crystal Davis - Building in Learning and Sustainability in Lean Transformation
Today’s guest is Crystal Davis. Crystal has over 20 years of proven Lean experience in the automotive, beverage, and supply chain industries and she has a STEM Industry focus. Her client roster consists of Fortune 500/1000 Companies. Crystal has been formally mentored by Toyota Senseis and helped...
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Episode 067: Skip Steward - Connecting the Dots: Lean Executive on Improvement in Healthcare
Today’s guest is Skip Steward. Skip Steward earned an MBA and is experienced in diverse industries including automotive, machining, food, process, service, and healthcare. He is a Shingo examiner, a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), a Quality Management System Auditor, a certified Six Sigma Black...
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Episode 066: Deondra Wardelle - Being Authentic: Alignment, Communication, Great Questions, and Humility
Today’s guest is Deondra Wardelle. A visionary leader, entrepreneur, coach, and speaker, Deondra R. Wardelle specializes in empowering individuals and corporate groups through strategic visioning to achieve goals and sustain transformative change. Deondra launched On To the Next One Consulting,...
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Episode 065: Hugh Alley - Operational Excellence and Advice for Becoming the Supervisor
Today’s guest is Hugh Alley, Hugh has a breadth of experience in helping organizations make measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and delivery, all of which improve profitability. He also helps people become better leaders. His work has been improving operational performance in...
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Episode 064: Karyn Ross - The Kind Leader: Eliminate Fear, Create Trust & Lead With Kindness
Today’s guest is one of the kindest people I know and her name is Karyn Ross Over the past years, our guest has noticed the devastating effects that failures of leadership and failures of kindness have resulted in all over the world. So she decided to do something about the problem. As well as...
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Episode 063: Jeff Kaas - The Power of Principle Based Thinking With Humility
Today’s guest is Jeff Kaas I’ve had several guests of the podcast encourage me that I needed to speak to our guest today. When I reached out to Jeff about being on the podcast, he emailed me back and said, “Let’s chat first, I want to get to know you.” We ended up having one of the coolest...
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Episode 062: Jamie Flinchbaugh - People Solve Problems
Today we are going to do something different. Today’s guest is Jamie Flinchbaugh. Jamie was the second guest on The Lean Leadership Podcast. You probably know Jamie from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean or some of the other publications that he has written in from time to time. He is also the…
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Episode 061: Allison Greco - Being Flexible to the Unexpected Can Be Great Opportunities with Lean
Today’s guest is Allison Greco Allison is the Founder of Continuous Improvement International whose mission is to cultivate a passion for continuous improvement and drive the adoption of continuous improvement culture as the key to organizational success. They provide a fresh, modern professional...
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Episode 060: Patrick Adams - Leadership, Culture, and Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap
Today’s guest is Patrick Adams Patrick Adams is the author of the best-selling book “Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap.” He is an international speaker, coach, and consultant. Patrick has been delivering bottom-line results through specialized process improvement solutions for over 20…
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Episode 059: Art Byrne - Lessons From a Lean CEO: Leaders Lead Best on the Gemba
Today’s guest is Art Byrne You can’t study Lean and Continuous Improvement for long without coming across the name Art Byrne. Art’s roll up your sleeves, go to Gemba approach for improvement has been well documented in Jim Womack’s book Lean Thinking and in Art’s own books The Lean Turnaround and...
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Episode 058 : Bob Rush - If You're Not Learning in Lean, You're Not Doing It Right
Today’s guest is Bob Rush Bob Rush has more than 40 years of manufacturing experience in the High Technology segment, working with products ranging from disk drives and computers to lasers and finally to electric vehicles. He has a curiosity-driven personality, loving to learn new things. He has...
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Episode 057 : Julie Simmons - The Importance of Being a Kata Learner Before Becoming a Coach
Today’s guest is Julie Simmons, I’m really excited about our guest today. I was lucky enough to interview both Tracy Defoe in episode 53 and Gemma Jones in episode 54 and they talked about Kata Girl Geeks, which if you haven’t checked it out yet, is an awesome community of women who are growing…
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Episode 056: Matt Whiat - The Human Element & Building Cultures to Deliver Deliberate Outcomes
In every episode, I ask our guest to share with us a favorite quote or mantra from a leader and why they chose that quote. In episode 44 Jamie Parker shared a quote from our guest today, Matt Whiat. I reached out to Matt and asked him to be a guest on the podcast and I’m glad that he accepted.…
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Episode 055 : Paul Critchley - With Lean If You Don't Quit, You Don't Fail
Today’s guest is Paul Critchley, Paul Critchley is a recognized thought leader on employee engagement and continuous improvement and has helped businesses around the world achieve greater levels of success through the application of Lean techniques. A frequent speaker, he has keynoted at numerous...
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Episode 054 : Gemma Jones - Using Toyota Kata to Impact Improvement in a Positive Way
Today’s guest is Gemma Jones. Gemma started her career studying Mechanical Engineering. She quickly discovered the world of Continuous Improvement and spent 20 years working to improve processes and systems within various manufacturing industries including Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Dairy,...
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Episode 053 : Tracy Defoe - Learning Together with Toyota Kata
Today’s guest is Tracy Defoe, Tracy Defoe is an adult education consultant specializing in workplace learning. Her work history includes research, teaching, and program development - much of which culminates in peer-led learning. She is a proud Kata Geek and a humble lean practitioner. For more...
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Episode 052 : Rick Bohan - The Importance of Conversation in Lean
Today’s guest is Rick Bohan, Rick is the Owner and Director of Chagrin River Consulting in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Rick’s route in his path to working in lean and continuous improvement started with a mining company in eastern Kentucky, teaching miners about safety, and has progressed over the years...
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Episode 051: Adam Lawrence - Continuous Improvement and The Wheel of Sustainability
Today’s guest is Adam Lawrence. Adam is the Managing Partner of Process Improvement Partners, LLC. He has 30+ years of experience in process improvement activities, targeted at manufacturing and business processes. Having facilitated 300+ Kaizen events in multiple industries around the world…
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Episode 050 : Kara Cuzzetto - Anything Is Possible When You Trust The Process
Today’s guest is Kara Cuzzetto, Kara is a Pacific Northwest Native, has been married for 30 years, is blessed with three beautiful children, and is expecting her first grandchild in July. She began her continuous improvement journey in 2001 while working as a Revenue Operations Manager at…
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Episode 049: Paul Dunlop - The Answers to Your Problems Are Already Here
Today’s guest is Paul Dunlop, Paul brings with him over 20 years of management and manufacturing experience across a broad range of industries. In his operational management roles, Paul has led successful Lean implementation and transformations using the principles of the Toyota Production…
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Episode 048: David Veech - Problem Solving as a Strategic Advantage
Today’s guest is David Veech, David has an extensive professional background in leadership, operational excellence, lean systems, and problem-solving. He has built a solid foundation on what it takes to deliver compelling messages that provide deep, authentic inspiration that surfaces one’s full...
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Episode 047 : L. David Marquet -Using Intent-Based Leadership to Develop Yourself and Your Team
One of the benefits of producing this podcast is to meet people who have had a transformational influence on my career, one of those people, David Marquet, wrote a book that allowed me to take a really close look at the improvement work that my team and I were doing and to improve the way we…
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Episode 046 : Elisabeth Swan - Continuous Improvement and Using Improv as a People Skill
Today’s guest is Elisabeth Swan. Elisabeth is a co-founder of the Just-in-Time Cafe, with a mission to cultivate a hub where problem solvers connect, share, and grow. She’s the co-author of The Problem-Solver’s Toolkit: A Surprisingly Simple Guide to Your Lean Six Sigma Journey and Co-host of the...
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Episode 045: Katie Anderson - Learning to LEAD, Leading to LEARN
Today’s guest is Katie Anderson is an internationally recognized leadership coach, consultant, speaker, and author of the bestselling book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn. Best known for her focus on helping individuals and organizations lead with intention, Katie has supported thousands of...
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Episode 044 - Jamie V. Parker - Lean Leadership for Operations Managers
Today’s guest is Jamie V. Parker. Jamie is the founder of Process + Results, which provides people leadership development for Lean-practicing organizations. With 17 years of multi-unit operations management experience, Jamie specializes in helping operations managers build engaged & adaptable...
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Episode 043: Billy Taylor: Lean Leadership and Engagement vs Entitlement
Today’s guest is Billy Taylor. Billy is a retired executive from Goodyear and is now the CEO of his own firm LinkedXL. Since joining Goodyear in 1989, Billy has progressed through a series of leadership positions. He has served as a plant director for both union and non-union facilities, leading...
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Episode 042: Steven J Spear Part 2: Accelerating Innovation and Succeeding in Periods of Abrupt Change
Today’s guest is Steve Spear. Steve is the author of the award-winning and critically acclaimed book, The High-Velocity Edge. He is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is also a founder of a consulting firm…
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Episode 041 Steven J Spear: Early Experiences of Learning at Toyota 1 of 2
Today’s episode is with Steven J. Spear. Steven is the author of the book The High Velocity Edge and is a multiple Shingo Research Prize winner. He helped develop and deploy the Alcoa Business System. He is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and is a Senior Fellow at the…
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Episode 036: Tim Mclean - Where Companies in Australia Are Finding Success with Lean and How to Get It
Today’s guest is Tim Mclean. Tim is our first guest from Australia and is the Principal and Managing Director of TXM Lean Solutions. In his mid 20’s Tim was promoted in to a Plant Management role and this lead to senior operations and general management positions at Hoechst and in major Blue Chip...
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Episode 034: Jim Huntzinger - How to Get Better Results From Lean by Participating In Lean Communities
Today's guest is Jim Huntzinger. Jim began his career as a manufacturing engineer with Aisin Seiki (a Toyota Group company and manufacturer of automotive components) when they transplanted to North America to support Toyota. Over his career he has also researched at length the evolution of...
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Episode 033: Dr. Brad Miller - Imagine Teaching Lean and Loving Every Minute of it
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Episode 032: Mike Orzen - How to Get Your Desired Results With Your Lean Efforts, Part Two
Today's episode is a continuation of our conversation that we had with Mike Orzen in Episode 31. So if you haven't heard episode 31 yet, after you listen to this episode go back and check out the beginning or our conversation with Mike. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Mike, he is the...
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Episode 030: Rick Timlick - First Understand the Lean Principles Then Learn the Tools
Rick Timlick, as an expert in performance management, brings to his clients a distinguished record of achievement having helped organizations all over the globe. Rick specializes in comprehensive organizational transformation and complex operational issues, turnarounds and acquisitions,...
About this show
A weekly thirty-minute podcast featuring compelling stories from leaders and authors in the Lean, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement field like Mark Graban, Jamie Flinchbaugh, Karen Martin, and Andy Carlino. Learn What do they consider their biggest setback or challenge in their lean journey? (Hint: They are just like you, and they got through what is holding you back.) What do they consider their a-ha or success moment in their career? What tools and resources do they use to achieve success? What advice do they give to the individual just starting out on their Lean journey?What advice do they give the experienced professional to help them achieve next-level success?
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Chris Burnham
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