Overwhelmed!! That’s the word Joy E. Mason hears most often when she asks leaders how they feel about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Leaders are finding themselves overwhelmed by recent demographic and cultural shifts and the uncertainty of what to do next. Unfortunately, traditional DEI training doesn’t appear to have the answers that leaders desperately […]
While it is well known that facilitating homogeneous teams is probably more straightforward and might provide solutions quicker, diverse teams are more likely the ones to propose breakthrough solutions. Author Alessandro Lasi explains an example where adding a new HR Director to the team led to a proposal idea that greatly challenged the status quo, […]
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Ann Moses of King County government (in Seattle) talks about a unique lean Green Belt program that integrates Racial Equity and Social Justice. As one of her IT Department’s lead racial equity trainers, when Ann received her lean Black Belt she saw a deep alignment and affinity between lean values and racially equity and social […]
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Deondra is a strategic thinker and consultant based in Indianapolis (Indiana) who focuses on coaching, empowering and developing individuals towards achieving their personal and professional goals. She shares her experiences working for and volunteering within nonprofit and not-for-profit organizations. In addition to her nonprofit work, she is also the creator of the #RootCauseRacism, which was […]
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In the wake of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, many socially responsible companies made a pledge to become an antiracist company and address racial inequity, but more has to be done to transform organizations to produce racial equity. The Lean thinking improvement system has a long history of transforming organizations for […]
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Crystal Davis, Karyn Ross, and Dorsey Sherman are the founders of the Women in Lean LinkedIn group. The group is focused on providing a safe, positive, and supportive community to help women with process improvement experience to find the courage, confidence, network, and information to help them thrive in their career in a way that […]
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Hosts Tracy O’Rourke and Elisabeth Swan interview Audrey Lang (Sr. Vice President of Organizational Development) and Tina Nguyen (VP of Employee Engagement) from the San Diego Humane Society. It’s an open-admission private nonprofit animal shelter in the San Diego County area to care for over 50,000 animals. They describe how their care-centered culture improves their […]
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The presentation was part of a Data on Purpose (DoP) conference presented by the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) in Feb 2021. Heather Krause, founder of We All Count and Datassist, explains how we can unintentionally contribute to inequity in our projects. We assume that data can provide a “silver bullet” against bias, prejudice, human […]
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Lean consultant Christopher Chapman shares some inspiring words for 2021. He asks us to “reflect on lessons learned, in true kaizen fashion, and consider the most impactful problems to tackle in 2021.” He points to President-elect Joe Biden’s top priorities for his administration for guidance on where to prioritize our efforts in 2021: Control the […]
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Root causes of racism and the problems in the world for which racism appears to be a root cause are now hot topics in the continuous improvement community. Deondra Wardelle and Mark Graban join host Bella Englebach to share the story of #RootCauseRacism and how it got started. Listen to the podcast at: https://leanforhumans.podbean.com/e/episode-8-continuous-improvement-and-root-cause-racism/
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