The Lean Solutions Podcast Patrick Adams

What You’ll Learn:

In this episode, hosts Catherine McDonald and Patrick Adams discuss the importance of strategic influence in Lean adoption, highlighting the need to show rather than tell, celebrate small victories, involve people in decision-making, and connect the dots between actions and outcomes. 

 By engaging employees and demonstrating the impact of changes at personal, team, and organizational levels, leaders can foster a culture of continuous improvement and drive sustainable change.

 About the Guest: 

Catherine McDonald is a Lean and Leadership
Coach with MCD Consulting, her own business since 2018. She specializes in Lean deployment across various non-manufacturing sectors, employing a strategic, enthusiastic, and empathetic approach. Using collaborative methods, Catherine guides individuals and organizations from short-term reactive working to long-term strategic thinking.

Patrick Adams is an internationally recognized
leadership coach, consultant and professional speaker. He is best known for his unique human approach to sound team building practices, creating consensus and enabling empowerment. Patrick has been delivering bottom-line results through specialized process improvement solutions for over 20 years. He’s worked with all types of businesses from private, non-profit, government, and manufacturing
ranging from small business to billion-dollar corporations. Patrick is an Author of the best selling book, Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap. 

Links:

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⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Here For Patrick Adams’ LinkedIn⁠

 

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What You’ll Learn:

In this episode, hosts Catherine McDonald and Shayne Daughenbaugh discuss process management as it emerges as a pivotal mechanism for organizational efficiency. 

 Unlike mere process mapping or SOP creation, it involves continual optimization aligned with overarching goals. Effective leadership, systematic frameworks, and technological integration are key drivers, while challenges
such as employee engagement and communication clarity must be navigated for successful implementation.



About the Guest: 

Matt Spears is a business improvement professional with a passion for leading change and transforming the way value is created. Because customer value is created through business processes, Matt was necessarily drawn to the world of process management. Matt currently serves as a Senior Solutions Engineer for Nintex – a leading process management and automation software company. In his
current role, Matt has the privilege of helping organizations achieve operational excellence through business process management. 



Links:

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What You’ll Learn: In this episode, hosts Andy Olrich and Patrick Adams discuss the difficulty of navigating through a crisis of market competition and organizational chaos.

Through the transformative power of Toyota Kata in Lean methodology, we can embrace a culture of scientific thinking and coaching. Learning to empower our teams, transcend conventional practices, and unlock new realms of success gives us a path to success through continuous improvement.

About the Guest: 

Tilo Schwarz supports organizations and managers in successfully leading change and empowering their teams for improvement, adaptiveness, and superior results. He was a plant manager at a renowned German power-tool manufacturer, where he and his management team started practicing Toyota Kata as part of Mike Rother's groundbreaking research in 2007. By doing so, Tilo and his team established continuous improvement as a daily working routine throughout all processes and areas of the plant. That led to winning the A. T. Kearny manufacturing competition "Factory of the Year" and a WHU/INSEAD Industrial Excellence Award. Tilo is co-founder of the Campus for Leaders at the University of Applied Science Ansbach and the author of several books on coaching and Toyota Kata.

Links:

⁠⁠⁠Click Here For Andy Olrich’s LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Here For Patrick Adams LinkedIn⁠

Click Here For Tilo’s Book: “Giving Wings to Her Team”

Click Here For More Information On Tilo Schwarz⁠⁠Click Here For The Lean Solutions Summit⁠


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What You’ll Learn: In this two-parted episode, host Andy Olrich delves into Katie Anderson’s transformative Chain of Learning workshops in Australia. Tune in as they explore attendee expectations, workshop insights, captivating leadership themes, and profound reflections.

About the Guest: 

Katie Anderson is an internationally recognized leadership consultant, coach, professional speaker, and learning enthusiast, dedicated to helping purpose-driven leaders create cultures of learning and accelerate individual and organizational impact. 

A skilled change agent and coach, Katie has supported tens of thousands of leaders across a range of industries to create organizational learning cultures that foster innovation, engagement, and continuous improvement. A popular keynote speaker, she is the author of the bestselling book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn, which has received multiple international awards, including the Shingo Publication Award, and has been translated into over eight languages. Katie is also the host of the transformational leadership podcast Chain of Learning.

Katie holds a BA with honors from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia, where she received her Master’s degree in public health. She has lived in seven countries, and regularly leads executive study trips to Japan for leaders looking to deepen their knowledge of people-centered leadership, operational excellence, and Japanese culture.



Links:

⁠⁠Click Here For Andy Olrich’s LinkedIn⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Click Here to Learn More About Katie Anderson⁠⁠

⁠Click Here For Katie's Podcast, "Chain Of Learning"⁠

⁠Click Here For Chain Of Learning Episode 12: "Beyond Appearances: Building Real Continuous Improvement with Patrick Adams"⁠

⁠Click Here For The Lean Solutions Summit⁠


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What You’ll Learn: In this two-parted episode, host Andy Olrich delves into Katie Anderson’s transformative Chain of Learning workshops in Australia. Tune in as they explore attendee expectations, workshop insights, captivating leadership themes, and profound reflections.

About the Guest: 

Katie Anderson is an internationally recognized leadership consultant, coach, professional speaker, and learning enthusiast, dedicated to helping purpose-driven leaders create cultures of learning and accelerate individual and organizational impact. 

A skilled change agent and coach, Katie has supported tens of thousands of leaders across a range of industries to create organizational learning cultures that foster innovation, engagement, and continuous improvement. A popular keynote speaker, she is the author of the bestselling book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn, which has received multiple international awards, including the Shingo Publication Award, and has been translated into over eight languages. Katie is also the host of the transformational leadership podcast Chain of Learning.

Katie holds a BA with honors from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia, where she received her Master’s degree in public health. She has lived in seven countries, and regularly leads executive study trips to Japan for leaders looking to deepen their knowledge of people-centered leadership, operational excellence, and Japanese culture.



Links:

⁠Click Here For Andy Olrich’s LinkedIn⁠

⁠⁠Click Here to Learn More About Katie Anderson⁠



Click Here For Chain Of Learning Episode 12: "Beyond Appearances: Building Real Continuous Improvement with Patrick Adams"

Click Here For The Lean Solutions Summit


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What You’ll Learn:
In this episode, hosts Andy Olrich and Shayne Daughenbaugh discuss Kanban not just as a method, but as a choreography of productivity, transforming the manufacturing landscape into a finely tuned performance of excellence.
Amidst this dance of efficiency, some voice the question: does Kanban suck?
About the Guest:  
Steve Ansuini is the dynamic owner of the Center for Employee Development, LLC (C4ED), founded in 2007. Specializing in Lean Manufacturing, Transactional Lean, Health Care Lean, Maintenance, and Soft-Skills training, he has collaborated with Fortune 100 companies, achieving significant reductions in safety incidents, inventory, and operational costs. Beyond his business pursuits, Mr. Ansuini has partnered with Purdue University to establish and operate a Lean Environment Simulator (LES) since 2015, one of just six units available to the public globally. With a rich background including 3 years at Toyota Engineering & Manufacturing of North America and 17 years at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, he brings a wealth of expertise from his 10-year stints at Mack Trucks and the US Marine Corps.
Links:
⁠Click Here For Andy Olrich’s LinkedIn⁠⁠
⁠⁠Click Here For Shayne Daughenbaugh’s LinkedIn
Click Here For Steve Ansuini’s LinkedIn

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