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Alex Cano on being Genuine in Serving Others

Lean Frontline - December 04, 2020 21:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Alex Cano is the Founder and CEO of Alex Cano Consulting and Coaching.  He has led, coached, and mentored over 200 successful improvement projects across all business areas, working with professionals in more than 15 countries. In this episode, Alex shares his thoughts on how being genuine can d...

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Jason Haines on Connecting the Frontline

Lean Frontline - November 19, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Jason Haines is the owner and principal consultant at Industrial Solutions with 20+ years of experience in manufacturing. In this episode, Jason shares his thoughts on how to connect the gap between the leadership and frontline teams.

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Herb Thompson on Mobilizing Your Lean Culture

Lean Frontline - November 13, 2020 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Herb Thompson is the owner of Lean Business Transformation LLC and offers dynamic and strategic management leadership with 25+ years of experience increasing team performance. In this episode, Herb shares his thoughts on how to mobilize your lean culture by considering three crucial components: ...

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Cynthia Kalina-Kaminsky on the Importance of Strategic Planning

Lean Frontline - November 02, 2020 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Cynthia Kalina-Kaminsky is the President of Process & Strategy Solutions where she works with companies to increase revenue, transform operations, innovate supply chains, and integrate advanced technology. In this episode, she shares her thoughts on aligning tactical execution with the strategic...

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Christian Anibarro on Terrific Transformations

Lean Frontline - October 30, 2020 21:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
With over 20 years of experience leading business and process transformation, Christian is an entrepreneurial leader who loves unlocking people’s curiosity to solve challenging problems. He is the founder of Impact Consulting, a leadership development & consulting firm focused on process transfo...

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Michael Jebber on Leaning In at the Right Place

Lean Frontline - October 23, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
 Michael Jebber brings over 25 years of experience both in the trenches and in senior management in organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies to Cardinal 6 Consulting. In this episode, Michael shares his thoughts on how, where, and what to start with when deploying new method...

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Pierre Servan on Driving An Effective Certification Program

Lean Frontline - October 22, 2020 22:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Pierre Servan is the principal consultant at Factor Quality. He is an expert in quality, environmental and/or safety matters and has achieved hundreds of successful implementations, hands-on training sessions, regional & national speaking engagements as well as internal audits,  gap analysis & s...

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Gary Kerslake on the Optimistic Manufacturing Future

Lean Frontline - October 16, 2020 01:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Gary Kerslake is a Supply Chain Consultant with Kerslake & Associates, L.L.C. located in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. As a consultant, he has worked with several of our nation’s leading corporations and government agencies. In this episode, Gary shares how he stays optimistic about the future of ...

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Scott Whitbred on Data Driven Accountability

Lean Frontline - October 15, 2020 03:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Scott Whitbred started Elite Manufacturing in 2020 to help small and medium-sized manufacturers and distributors to improve productivity and profits by working hands-on with executive teams and their associates to devise and deliver profit improvement plans from start to finish. In this episode,...

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Ray McKenzie on Creating a Sustainable Continuous Improvement Culture

Lean Frontline - October 09, 2020 22:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Ray McKenzie is the founder of Red Beach Advisors, a technology management consulting group headquartered in Los Angeles, CA providing businesses and organizations with successful growth strategies to build, grow, and scale. In this episode, Ray McKenzie will share his thoughts on creating an en...

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Audie Penn on Rewarding the Boring Factory

Lean Frontline - October 08, 2020 02:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Audie Penn is an executive consultant in Lean Product and Process Development at Faro Partners with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing industries including Heavy Equipment (20 years), Food (8 years), and Building Materials (8 years). In this episode, Audie shares his thoughts on patter...

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Joshua Rockwell on being in the Gemba

Lean Frontline - October 01, 2020 23:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Josh is the CEO of Rockwell Process Consulting. His goal is to maximize the bottom line to make that business sustainable and profitable to secure a long and healthy future for all employees in a safe environment. In this episode, Josh shares his thoughts on why being part of the process, being ...

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Ryan Weiss on Servant Leadership

Lean Frontline - September 30, 2020 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Ryan Weiss is a global executive with decades of experiences spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He has successfully founded 3 companies, and worked as a global executive leading hundreds of people, managing a $500 million product portfolio, and developing a passion for organizational chang...

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Zachary White on Simple Standard Work

Lean Frontline - September 24, 2020 20:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Zachary is a representative for manufacturers and an advocate for Customers. He currently works with the American Machining Efficiency Consultants (AMEC) to provide added value to manufacturers by helping them complete their Industry 4.0 transformations. In this episode, Zach shares this thought...

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Rob Fisher on Changing the Paradigm of Leadership

Lean Frontline - September 22, 2020 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Rob Fisher is currently the President and Director of Operations for Fisher Improvement Technologies (FIT), a Native-American (Cherokee) owned business that was recently awarded a Top-100 Native-American Owned Business in the US and a Top-50 Emerging Business in North Carolina by DiversityBusine...

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DJ Duarte on the Importance of a Mentor

Lean Frontline - September 17, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
DJ Duarte’s 34 years as a Global Optimization Expert & Lean Leadership Coach has enabled him to influence the practical application, facilitation and implementation of business processes and systems that delivers real operational cost outcomes. In this episode, DJ Duarte will share his thoughts ...

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Santiago Mayagoitia on the Key Components of Culture, Waste, and Technology

Lean Frontline - September 09, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Santiago is the President of the Chamber of Young People of Jalisco Consulting Companies, Engineer of the 2019, Vice President of the CCJEJ, and internationally endorsed by the IASSC. In this episode, Santiago will focus on the key components of culture, waste, and technology.

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Santiago Mayagoitia on Aligning your Teams with Customer Needs

Lean Frontline - September 09, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Santiago is the President of the Chamber of Young People of Jalisco Consulting Companies, Engineer of the 2019, Vice President of the CCJEJ, and internationally endorsed by the IASSC. In this episode, Santiago will focus on the critical role of leveraging the power, and tapping into the potentia...

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Scott Schwarz on Focusing on the Individual

Lean Frontline - September 07, 2020 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Scott has been in operations management, quality management, and Lean Six Sigma for 30+ years. As the President of Lean Tactics Global, he helps businesses improve their processes and increase efficiency. Scott will share his thoughts on how anyone can become a Lean master, the importance of a G...

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Scott Schwarz on Improving any Process

Lean Frontline - September 07, 2020 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Scott has been in operations management, quality management, and Lean Six Sigma for 30+ years. As the President of Lean Tactics Global, he helps businesses improve their processes and increase efficiency. Scott will share his thoughts on how anyone can become a Lean master, the importance of a G...

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Russ Jordan on Driving Personal Investment from Your Team

Lean Frontline - September 02, 2020 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
As the Owner and Principal Consultant for LEAN Enterprise Solution with 37+ years of executive experience, Russ supports his clientele with management, communications, and implementation practices and processes providing a roadmap for their success, while retaining their focus on the day-to-day ...

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Rich Hazeltine on Building a Resilient Company

Lean Frontline - August 31, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
As a ICF Certified Coach, Rich helps organizations measure and optimize the talent, behaviors and motivators of their workforce as strategy to produce the best results and performance. In this episode, he will discuss how bridging emotional intelligence with data, frontline connectivity, and use...

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Carlos Conejo on Benchmarking and Behavior

Lean Frontline - August 17, 2020 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Carlos is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with a track record of transforming organizations and improving operational performance. He discusses the critical role of benchmarking, why to administer a behavioral assessment, and how to use new technologies to tap into subject matter experts who ...

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Dan Pinkham on Building Trust and Solving Problems

Lean Frontline - August 10, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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...

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Bruce Carnohan on Being #SimplerFasterBetter

Lean Frontline - August 03, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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 s...

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Nate Barber on Tackling Lean during COVID-19

Lean Frontline - July 23, 2020 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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.

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Professor Brad Miller on Bringing Lean To You

Lean Frontline - August 25, 2019 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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.

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Michael Bremer on What Excellence Truly Looks Like

Lean Frontline - August 11, 2019 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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.

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Steven Kane on Putting out Fires with Customer Success

Lean Frontline - July 09, 2019 17:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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. 

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Marcia Daszco on the Catalyst for Strategic Change and Innovation

Lean Frontline - June 25, 2019 17:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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.

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