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E095: Applying Lean Six Sigma to College and K-12 Education with Jenelle Zito

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Posted on September 14, 2022September 18, 2022
Posted in Government, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast

In this podcast, I interviewed Jenelle Zito, who is the Director Of Continuous Improvement at Racine Unified School District (RUSD). Prior to joining RUSD about 5 years ago, she implemented process improvement at Gateway Technical College as a Quality Champion, after earning her Lean Six Sigma Green and Black Belt certification. She shares examples of

E094: Applying Six Sigma at the YMCA with Jorge Perez

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Posted on June 17, 2022June 19, 2022
Posted in Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Volunteering

In this podcast, I interviewed Jorge Perez, who is the President & CEO of YMCA of Greater Cincinnati. Early in his career, he helped students into college and keep them from getting into drugs, gangs and dropping out of school. He realized that getting to the root cause of the issue (not having a support

E093: Lean and Green Project to Reduce Wastewater in State of Washington

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Posted on June 5, 2022September 30, 2022
Posted in Employee Engagement, Government, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Podcast, Pollutants, Water

In today’s episode, I share a presentation from the IISE Seattle conference on May 23, 2022. Joshua Fowler from Romac Industries starts off the presentation by giving some background on the project that I was involved with as the lean consultant, and Michael Johnson from Lean Environment Inc. discusses the technical solutions applied to reduce

E092: Process Improvement in Nonprofit Daycare with Elisabeth Swan

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Posted on February 20, 2022March 6, 2022
Posted in Government, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Volunteering

In today’s episode, I interviewed Elisabeth Swan, who has over 30 years of process improvement experience with a great background working for consulting firms like Rath & Strong and Pivotal Resources. She has lots of experience working with nonprofits, government, hospitality, healthcare, entertainment (including work on “Saved by the Bell”), and the for-profit sector. She

E091: Process Improvement in Not-for-Profit Sectors with Tracy O’Rourke

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Posted on February 8, 2022March 5, 2022
Posted in Book Review, Government, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Nonprofit, Podcast, Volunteering

In today’s episode, I interviewed Tracy O’Rourke, who has over 20 years of process improvement experience, working with nonprofits, government, education, military and the for-profit sector. She teaches Lean and Six Sigma at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD), is the co-host of the podcast and video series, Just-in-Time Cafe (with Elisabeth Swan), and is

E090: Guest Interview on Environmentally Conscious Nation Podcast from Aug 2021

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Posted on January 12, 2022September 29, 2022
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Nonprofit, Podcast, Pollutants, Raw Materials, Solid Waste, Transportation, Water

In today’s episode, I share the interview I had with D.J. Vagnetti, host of the Environmentally Conscious Nation podcast. I don’t think his podcast is still active, otherwise I would recommend listening directly to the episode. This interview assumes that the audience doesn’t know much about process improvement or Lean or Six Sigma, so if

E089: 2021 Lean Six Sigma for Good – Year in Review

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Posted on December 29, 2021November 19, 2022
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Government, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Nonprofit, Podcast, Pollutants, Solid Waste, Volunteering, Water

Today I recapped the last year, and give some insights into my plans for 2022. It’s a shorter episode than usual, so hopefully you have time to listen to it during the holidays. I recap the past podcast episodes that I released, along with ones I was interviewed on. I also discuss the LeanSixSigmaForGood.com and

E088: Using Toyota Kata to Help Local Food Banks with Hugh Alley

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Posted on November 2, 2021November 8, 2021
Posted in Book Review, Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Nonprofit, Podcast, Volunteering

Our guest is Hugh Alley, an experienced lean practitioner and industrial engineer, who has experience with the Toyota Kata method of improvement. He has recently applied this approach to a nonprofit food bank in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada called Loaves and Fishes. This approach was based on the KataLab approach developed for the food

E087: Applying Lean to Nonprofits and Healthcare with Matt Horvat

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Posted on October 25, 2021October 25, 2021
Posted in Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Volunteering

My good friend Matt Horvat is the founder of Lean Portland, and has extensive experience in process improvement in various industries like Construction, Healthcare, Insurance and Consulting. He discusses why he set up Lean Portland, and shares his first pro bono volunteer projects with a nonprofit in Portland. We discuss: his background in Industrial Engineering

E086: Helping Nonprofits with Process Improvement through Consulting and Volunteering with Lauren Neder

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Posted on October 6, 2021November 19, 2022
Posted in Employee Engagement, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Volunteering

In this podcast, I talk with Lauren Neder, Industrial Engineer and lean consultant working with nonprofit organizations as a consultant and volunteer. She shares her experience working with a nonprofit in Haiti (in person and virtually), and how she is learning how to approach nonprofit organizations with process improvement. We discuss: how she transitioned from