Gemma Jones is one of the founders of the Kata Girl Geeks, and she has developed a way to mobilize continuous improvement practitioners to help underserved and at-risk members of society, specifically suicide prevention. Across the world every 40 seconds someone dies by suicide. That’s 90 people per hour. She created a MURAL board as […]
Hugh Alley is an experienced lean practitioner and industrial engineer, who has experience with the Toyota Kata method of improvement. He has recently applied this approach to a nonprofit food bank in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada, based on the KataLab approach developed in Montreal by Jean-Marc Legentil, Marc-Olivier Legentil and Sylvain Landry. He explains […]
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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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Sabrina Malter is a Kata coach at a major pharmaceutical company in Germany. Kata is a pattern you practice to learn a skill and mindset until it becomes second nature. She facilitated a conversation with people from Germany and Switzerland. They structured the conversation around the following questions: What’s our target condition for an inclusive and […]
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Dorian Long shares her first exposure with Lean when she participated in a Lean kaizen event working to streamline the Medicare Waiver program. She enjoyed visualizing the process maps to expose the waste, and how the event increased employee engagement for the social workers. She also saw commonality with Lean and how they perform social […]
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Social work was selected as the Model Value Stream (showcase) for the Department of Social Services (DSS). They decided to develop a program called Social Work Kata, which helps them quantify the work they do (more qualitative into quantitative data), prepare for changes in work being done to help with lack of resources, and ultimately […]
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