Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
Business:Management
Episode page: https://www.leanblog.org/444
My guest for Episode #444 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Michele Smith. She is CEO and an Executive Coach with her firm Better Possibilities, LLC.
Michele is the former director for the Sutter Improvement System at Sutter Health. She is a Catalysis faculty member and she is is leading a workshop June 7th at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit called Winning the People Side of Transformation in Salt Lake City. The Summit is being held June 6 to 9 (with the main days being the 8th and 9th). I hope to see you at the Summit.
Michele is a dedicated Executive/Leadership Coach with extensive experience coaching individuals across all levels of the organization. She has broad experience as a designated leader and change management consultant, with expertise in team building, leadership development, and facilitation/coaching of leadership to arrive at an organizational strategy with aligned goals, solutions, and ultimately culture change.
Today, we discuss topics and questions including:
David Mann on Creating a Lean Culture for Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Beyond
Mark Graban on ’Healthcare Tech Talk,’ Discussing Lean Healthcare
Lean in Washington State Government: Darrell Damron and Hollie Jensen
George Friesen on Lean, Kaizen, and Idea Boards - Experiences at the NUMMI Plant
Michael Bremer on How to Do a Gemba Walk in Lean Management
Chris Jerry, The Emily Jerry Foundation, on Preventing Systemic Medical Errors (Part 2)
Ed Pound, "Factory Physics for Managers"
Joe Schnur, Innovations for Hand Hygiene & Patient Safety
Paul Plsek, Lean & Innovation at Virginia Mason Medical Center
Chris Jerry, Part 1, on the Death of His Daughter Emily Due to Medical Error
Patrick Graupp, Training Within Industry (TWI) in Healthcare
The KaiNexus WorkOut Process at Mary Greeley Medical Center, Improving Cost and Patient Care
Paul Spiegelman, Do Patients Come Second in Healthcare? Who Comes First?
Jeff Gothelf, LeanUX (Lean User Experience) for Software and Lean Startup
Harry Kenworthy, Lean in Government (Local, State, and Federal Levels)
Kim Barnas, on Her Book ’Beyond Heroes’ for Hospital Lean Management Systems
Jim Huntzinger, What is TWI (Training Within Industry)?
Steve Montague, Lean & TeamSTEPPS for Patient Safety
Paul Piechota, Lean at the University of Dayton
Mark Jaben, MD: Lean, Change, & Brains