CEO at
CITY Furniture
Global Field Ops Manager
Boeing
Bio Coming Soon
The Kaizenaire Mind
Former Chief of Agile @ Toyota
CEO of The Flow Consortium
He designs organizations that are highly optimized and customer value focused. As a problem solver Nigel helps executive leaders transform their operations. He creates disruptors and transforms the disrupted.
Managing Director,
Tacklers Consulting Group
Senior CI Advisor
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Operations Management Consultant and Toyota Production System Expert
Hide Oba is a passionate practitioner, implementing Toyota Production System (TPS) philosophies to drive change in the organizations to accomplish business results for 20+ years. He has worked with many kinds and sizes of operations in different industries, such as automobiles, energy, food, etc. He has consulted in diverse countries by deepening his understanding of each culture and is skilled at managing and leading cross-functional teams. Developed, implemented and executed a corporate-wide training program, which balances both On-Job Training & Off-Job Training.
Lean Consultant, Author, and LinkedIn Learning Instructor
Sam Yankelevitch maintains he is too old to grow up, too young to stop learning and delighted to give back.
As a former global operations executive in the automotive sector, Sam has a few lessons to share. Whether as a Linkedin Learning instructor, book author or speaker, Sam provides thought provoking experiences related to culture change, communication, project management and problem solving, from before the word Lean was coined. By bridging communication with Lean, Kaizen and quality principles, he opens a hidden gate to help reduce a common source of waste caused by human misunderstandings. Sam’s online courses have been viewed by almost 600,000 learners worldwide. BMW, John Deere, and GKN aerospace, are a few of the companies Sam has worked with. Walking the invisible Gemba, Lean Potion #9:
Communication - The Next Lean Frontier and An Interview with Failure are his latest publications, along with some new Linkedin Learning courses, which integrate Lean, communication and culture.
After publishing his first fiction novel, Sam is often thought of as the guy who interviewed failure. He has spoken internationally at conferences and corporate events and is fully bilingual in both Spanish and English
Former Director of Business Ops and Workplace Strategy, Nike
What motivates Jason most is seeing clarity take hold. When a team starts moving in the same direction, when systems make work more effective, and when decisions lead to meaningful progress. He has led enterprise-wide transformations, designed new operating models, and managed programs that delivered millions in value. But what he is most proud of is building structure and momentum in environments where both were missing, and leading teams through the uncertainty that comes with it.
Jason cares about how work gets done. Not just the results, but how people collaborate, how priorities hold up under pressure, and how systems support long-term growth. He leads by listening, simplifying complexity, removing obstacles, and helping teams focus on what matters most – especially when things get challenging.
Director of OpEx
Indiana University Health
Over the course of her health care career, Rosalind has had the opportunity to utilize her team building, problem solving, and leadership skills to develop programs, services, and improve processes that have made an impact on the community and health care organizations for which she has worked. As a leader, she has built strong teams through caring, coaching, and recognizing the strength of team members and matching their strengths with project or program needs to help accomplish goals and objects.
President of BMA,
Author of “The Lean CFO”
Nick serves as the President and owner of BMA. With over three decades of expertise, he has utilized his knowledge in lean accounting to aid companies in designing, leading, and coaching them through their lean accounting transformations. Nick's experience spans globally, working with a diversity of companies ranging from family-owned businesses to multinational corporations across various sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, software, engineering, and services. Additionally, Nick has delivered presentations on lean accounting at numerous lean conferences across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
30-Year Lean Employee at Toyota
David is fast approaching his 30th anniversary at Toyota Motor and is excited to share his insights, passion, and excitement for his first hand experiences at seeing Lean in action.
Director of Operations,
Merck
From being an officer on a submarine, to implementing Lean at Merck, John has the knowledge about what it takes to demonstrate Lean Leadership.
VP of Transformation and Productivity, Solenis
Whether it's integrating multi-company acquisitions, navigating global disruptions, or building scalable systems for growth, she bring clarity to chaos and momentum to strategy. Her leadership style is collaborative, decisive, and focused on outcomes that matter to investors, boards, and teams alike. Gretchen formally worked at PepsiCo as the Director of M&A, and she also retired from the Army as a Colonel.
Continuous Improvement Manager, COSTCO
Marshall is the Continuous Improvement Manager at Costco Optical Labs in San Diego, California.
Continuous Improvement Manager, COSTCO
Destini is the Continuous Improvement Manager at COSTCO Optical Labs in Auburn, Washington.
Lean Healthcare Operations Director
Wellstar Health System
Bio coming soon!
Director of Process Excellence
Nicklaus Children’s Health System
Experienced Lean Six Sigma Transformation Leader and Adjunct Faculty member with unique capabilities in training and talent development while making significant financial implication to the organization's bottom line. My versatile skills in Operations Management, Quality, AI Machine Learning & Statistics as reflected by the numerous certificates from APICS, ASQ, SME & SAS earned during my past 17 years of career experience uncover my deep passion for Continuous Improvement and my intrinsic motivation to apply the learning focusing on making high-quality decisions.
I pride myself for being so profoundly dedicated to driving growth at a company while ensuring sustainable measures to change management using systematic problem solving approaches and employee empowerment.
Sr. Process Improvement Engineer
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
Host of the Virtual Lean Summit, Author of Parenting the Lean Way
Jared is the host of the Global Lean Summit and the Virtual Lean Summit, which he started in 2020 as a response to help small business owners struggling as a result of the COVID lock downs. Demand for an in-person event has led to starting the Global Lean Summit. Jared has worked as a Lean consultant for companies like Nike, Mercy Corps, Alaska Airlines, Daimler Trucks, among others, and currently works in government applying Lean.
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