In this podcast, I interview Daniel Edds, Lean Leadership consultant and author. We discuss his work with nonprofits, government agencies and manufacturing companies. His recent focus is the importance of creating a strong leadership system to create proper structure and support of your continuous improvement methods. You can watch the full video here… Links * Daniel Edds LinkedIn* DanielEdds.com* Books:* Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership: Cracking the Code of Sustainable Team Performance* Transformational Management: Using Activity Analysis to Empower, Liberate and Invigorate* Proxis Solutions – Dan’s consulting firm* Books referenced in the podcast:* Turn Your Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders* An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization* Read full show notes | Subscribe or rate this podcast Promotions * FREE online course called “Lean Six Sigma and the Environment”* OpEx Six Sigma Online Training and Certification* Creative Safety Supply – Free 5S Guide Have you ordered the new book, “Lean Six Sigma for Good: Lessons from the Gemba (Volume 1)?” The book is made up of 8 chapters written about experiences from Lean and Six Sigma practitioners, to give you tips and tricks to help you work with nonprofits in your area. All proceeds donated to charity. We are also close to releasing Volume 2, so check back for the latest news. Transcript Brion (B): Welcome. This is Daniel Edds and he’s going to talk to us today about how he’s applied some process improvement methods into the nonprofit world and also some government work that he’s done over the years. Dan, do you want to just kick it off and tell us how you got into this line of work in some of your past background? Dan (D): Sure. Thanks, Brion.