Upcoming Events
July 10 | 12 - 1 p.m. | Zoom Webinar
In the complex landscape of lean transformations, a crucial element often eludes us—a missing link that can either propel us toward success or lead to failure. Enter lean leadership—the critical ingredient that not only steers our initiatives but safeguards them from becoming mere improvement programs destined to falter like so many others before. But what exactly is lean leadership, and how do we cultivate it?
Join Tom Paider, VP of Technology Infrastructure and Computing at Nationwide, as he unveils the essential components of a purpose-built management system. Discover how this system facilitates and sustains the gains of a lean transformation, ensuring that lean remains more than just a fleeting buzzword within our organizations.
Tom Paider is a technology executive for Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company. In his role, Tom leads the Technology Infrastructure organization, focused on enabling Nationwide’s businesses to conduct their operations through resilient, secure, and frictionless infrastructure and technology solutions. He has accountability for cloud and on-prem infrastructure as well as personal computing and telephony.
Tom is the co-author of the book The Lean IT Field Guide. He regularly consults with companies in a variety of industries across the globe on their lean transformations. Tom is also a Director on the Board of Directors for the Lean Enterprise Institute. Tom’s passion is using lean thinking and positive energy to help technology teams create solutions that users love.
July 18-19 | Detroit, MI | COE Partnered Event
Join us on July 18-19 for the inaugural Future of People at Work Symposium, where seven leading lean-focused organizations, including the Lean Enterprise Institute, Shingo Institute, Catalysis, Toyota's TPS Support Center, GBMP Consulting Group, Central Coast Lean, and The Ohio State University Center for Operational Excellence, come together to shape the future of work.
The Symposium is a groundbreaking opportunity for the lean community to collaborate and drive impactful change.
Problems We’ll Tackle
Over two days, you will tackle three critical business challenges alongside peers, business leaders, and industry experts:
- Workforce and Workplace Evolution: Addressing the rise of knowledge work, managing intergenerational workforces, and collaborating across remote and in-person teams.
- Technology Integration: Exploring the impacts of rapidly emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and robotics, on products, services, and processes.
- Supply Chain and Production Transformation: Assessing the pros and cons of reshoring or keeping operations local from the start.
What You’ll Experience
- Community Building: Connect with a broad community dedicated to lean thinking and practice.
- Collaborative Problem-Solving: Tackle critical challenges alongside peers, business leaders, and industry experts.
- Expert Insights: Gain knowledge from lean thought-leaders like Steve Spear, Jeff Liker, and John Shook, CEOs such as Miles Arnone from Re:Build Manufacturing, and industry experts like Ben Armstrong from MIT's Industrial Performance Center.
- Interactive Sessions: Engage in structured discussions, share your perspectives, and develop actionable ideas for your organization and the lean community.
This Symposium is an investment in building a robust lean community. Accordingly, sponsor organizations have kept the fee to $249 to encourage participation and cover the event's costs.
Join us in shaping the future of people at work.
July 24 | 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | In-Person Workshop
Back by popular demand! InBox® Lean office simulation is a participant-driven simulation that teaches how to apply Lean concepts to transactional processes. With InBox, associates of all levels can practice the tools of Lean and Six Sigma in a risk-free setting. This kind of practice builds individual capability and, ultimately, organizational capability.
InBox is unique: it employs an email-based work process, providing first-hand experience with Lean Office concepts where the flow of work is essentially invisible.
InBox is built around an electronic workflow–the type of work environment that actually exists in service businesses, support functions of manufacturing enterprises and leadership functions in all organizations. By using an email-based platform, participants assume work roles in an invisible (and very confusing) process.
Over the course of the day, participants will work to continuously improve the current state by creating a value stream map, identifying non-value-added activities (waste), takt time, WIP, and bottlenecks. Participants will also apply agile thinking to improve work in short, iterative cycles, and hold retrospectives to review the improvement process.
Participants will learn:
- How to manage the flow of work horizontally across the silos that exist in organizations;
- How the tools of lean should be used to engage participants in change management;
- How to manage short cycles of improvement activities across many functional areas;
- How huddle boards can be used to manage daily activities and continuous improvement activities.
Peg Pennington champions critical thinking and problem-solving as core competencies for all organizations. She's a team builder, sharing her passion for problem-solving over two decades of her career. Working as an educator and process improvement thought leader with MoreSteam's global clients, she loves to share her enthusiasm for building a culture of innovation.
Prior to joining MoreSteam's executive team, Peg was the Executive Director of the Center for Operational Excellence. She helped to architect the Master of Business Operational Excellence (MBOE) program and establish rigorous standards for Lean Six Sigma certification aligned with industry norms. She also was an instructor in the MBOE and MBA programs at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business.
She has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Michigan State University and an MBA from the University of Dayton.
This is a limited-capacity, in-person only workshop at the MoreSteam office in Powell, OH. The interest form for this workshop is now closed. If you have been selected to participate, you will be notified by July 3. Participants will be responsible for arranging their own transportation and will be expected to bring a laptop computer to complete the simulation.
August 7 | 12 - 1 p.m. | Zoom Webinar
The pace of organizational change is increasing. Unfortunately, most change activities fail, often leading to negative employee morale, damaged customer perception, a loss of revenue, and wasted effort.
Lynn Kelley has led organizational change at two Fortune 150 companies throughout her career. She’s drawn on that expertise to develop an approach toward organizational change known as the Change Questions. The Change Questions approach is customizable for every change and every organization and has delivered measurable results of 90% sustainment rate over hundreds of change initiatives. In this webinar, Lynn will dive into real-world examples of lessons learned from failed and successful change activities.
After participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the key areas to consider when implementing change that sustains
- Download the free Change Questions Digital Workbook for future use
Dr. Lynn Kelley has carved a path marked by leadership roles in manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and continuous improvement across diverse industries at a global scale. Lynn served as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Continuous Improvement at Union Pacific Railroad, and now serves as a Senior Advisor to BBH Capital Partners, where her expertise helps to fuel the firm's investment endeavors.
Before her tenure at Union Pacific, Lynn held the position of Vice President of Operational Excellence at Textron, earning her a seat at the executive leadership table. Armed with a PhD in evaluation and research, Lynn also taught undergraduate and graduate statistics courses. Prior to her foray into academia, Lynn's operational experience led her to serve as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Doctors Hospital in Detroit.
Throughout her career, Lynn has forged a trail of achievement by expertly guiding organizations through Change Management initiatives. From Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing to Engineering, Six Sigma, and Supply Chain optimization, Lynn's practical methodologies have consistently delivered operational excellence that engages employees and surpasses customer expectations. Lynn wrote the Amazon best-selling book, Change Questions with John Shook, which describes their proven change management process.
Save the Date
August 20 | Grange Insurance Tour (In-person; Limited capacity)
September 11, 12 - 1 p.m. | Lean Leadership Webinar with Al Deutschendorf, VP Operations Excellence at Safelite (Virtual)
October 2, 12 - 1 p.m. | TBD Webinar (Virtual)
October 8 | New to Lean Workshop with David Veech (In-person; Limited capacity)
November 6, 12 - 1 p.m. | TBD Webinar (Virtual)
November 20, 12 - 1 p.m. | TBD Webinar (Virtual)
December 6 | TBD Event (Hybrid - live in the Blackwell Ballroom or via Zoom)
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