Employee Engagement – Page 4 – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

E102: How Massport uses Lean to Achieve Sustainable Airport Operations

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Posted on April 20, 2023May 2, 2023
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Employee Engagement, Energy, Government, Land and Building Use, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast, Pollutants, Solid Waste, Water

In this podcast, I share a webinar held with Dr. Luciana Bardi and Darcy DeGeorge from the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport). MassPort is a state authority responsible for three airports including Logan International Airport, four maritime facilities as well as real estate in Boston. They give an overview of Massport along with the lean engineering

E101: Applying Lean to Healthcare and Nonprofit Boards with Katie Anderson

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Posted on April 13, 2023April 28, 2023
Posted in Book Review, Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Volunteering

In this interview, I talk with Katie Anderson, a leadership coach who has extensive lean experience in healthcare, and author of the award-winning Lean management book, “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn.” She lived in Japan for many years, where she learned directly from John Shook‘s former manager, Isao Yoshino, and the book is a

E100: How Lean Six Sigma Professionals Can Make The World A Better Place – Orlando March 2023

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Posted on March 24, 2023March 26, 2023
Posted in Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Volunteering

I’m very excited about episode 100, it’s a great milestone in any podcaster’s journey. Thank you for listening! It has taken many years to get to this, but it’s a sustainable pace that has worked for me, and why I feel that I can get to #200 someday. In this 100th podcast, I share a

E099: Rethinking Humanitarian Aid with Andrew Parris

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Posted on February 24, 2023February 28, 2023
Posted in Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Transportation

In this podcast, I share a video of a speech given by Andrew Parris, Process Excellence Manager at Medair. The presentation was given at the Berlin Science Week 2021 that was organised by ETH Zürich. Andrew discusses how continuous improvement and Lean can make nongovernmental organization (NGO) money go further. He also mentions there are

E098: Lean and Green Interview with The Lean Effect Podcast

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Posted on November 22, 2022February 28, 2023
Posted in Employee Engagement, Energy, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Nonprofit, Podcast, Solid Waste, Volunteering

In this podcast, I was interviewed by Mark Dejong on his The Lean Effect Podcast back in June 2021 (episode 34). We talked about my journey from statistician to Principal Lean consultant, and how Lean Six Sigma is beneficial for the environment, and applicable to our personal lives. We also discuss wastes we normally don’t

E097: Using Six Sigma to Address Racial Equity with Joy Mason

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Posted on November 11, 2022November 16, 2022
Posted in Employee Engagement, Government, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Volunteering

In this podcast, I talk to my friend, Joy Mason, CEO and founder of Optimist Business Solutions, and the founder of The Six Sigma Racial Equity Institute™ (SSREI), which is an innovative leadership program designed to upskill Black Women to be complex problem solvers. We discuss her background in continuous improvement, why she started Optimist

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

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

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

E085: Applying Lean and Agile for People and the Planet with Brad Jeavons

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Posted on August 31, 2021September 5, 2021
Posted in Book Review, Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast

In this podcast, I talk with Brad Jeavons, lean and Agile consultant with SA Partners. He is the host of the Enterprise Enterprise podcast. An episode we did together for his podcast will be released soon. Brad and I got along great, as we have similar passions around sustainability, the environment and social issues. During