2021 UPCOMING EVENTS

June 18 - Workshop on Leading to Learn: Intentional Leadership Practices to Create a Learning Organization

Join me for three-hour interactive workshop as part of the Catalysis annual summit.

Friday, June 18, 2021 at 11am-2pm Central Time.

Register here. Registration fee required.

May 12 - The Art of Leadership Webinar (Free)

Join me for this session where you will learn about the Leading to Learn framework of a leader’s purpose and walk away with at least three tangible practices that you can incorporate immediately to more effectively navigate the continuums of leadership and coaching.

Attend here.

Join me on this webinar on Wed, May 12 ¡ 10:00 AM CDT / 11:00 AM EST / 16:00 PM UK

SELECT PAST PUBLIC EVENTS

October 2020
Results Washington Keynote

Live interactive hour-long session at Washington State’s annual Lean conference that was presented to over 1000 participants.

More information can be found here.

October 2020
AME Conference – LIVE Keynote with Isao Yoshino

Join me and Isao Yoshino for an intimate conversation on the “main stage” at AME’s annual conference.

More information and registration here.

December 2019
Leading With Purpose – Half-day workshop (Women in Lean/Women in Leadership event for NWHPEC)
Location
Portland, Oregon

October 2019
Location
Various locations in the Netherlands
Invited talk and learning session – Strategy, Leadership & Culture event at EIFFEL
Workshop – Coaching workshop in Nijmegen
Worksop – Workshop sponsored by LIDZ

August 2019
1st San Francisco Bay Area Kata Practitioner Day
Location
Genentech, South San Francisco
April/May 2019
Lean Leadership and Hoshin Kanri practices with Isao Yoshino
Location
Multiple events in San Francisco and Chicago

April 2019
OSU Leading Through Excellence Summit
Location
Ohio State University Fisher School of Business
Columbus, Ohio
Half-day workshop
Fundamentals of Coaching for Improvement

March 2019
Lean Summit
Location
Houston, Texas
Workshop
Coaching for Personal Development

October 2018
A3 Thinking and Coaching Workshop (2-days)

Location: Menlo Park, California (open enrollment)
October 2018
HAN University IMPACT2018 Symposium
Location
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Keynote at Symposium
A3 thinking and the role of manager as a coach for improvement
Workshop
A3 Problem-Solving Thinking and Coaching (1-day)

October 8-10, 2018
European Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit
Location : Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Breakout Learning Sessions
Asking Effective Questions – two learning sessions co-led with Isao Yoshino
Workshop
Coaching for Personal Development

July 2018

AME Masterclass on Lean Leadership and Hoshin Kanri
Location
South San Francisco, California

March

Lean Transformation Summit 2018

Location
Nashville, TN
Invited Talk
“Getting Out of the Habit of Telling” (Part of the Lean Talk series)
Workshop
Post Summit Workshop (1-day): “Coaching for Personal Development: Using the Personal Improvement A3 Framework”

European Lean Educator Conference
Workshop and keynote
Netherlands, November 2017

Coaching for Improvement
1-day workshop
September 26, 2017 in Indianapolis (with Catalysis)

Coaching for Personal Development
1-day workshop
September 28, 2017 in Indianapolis (with Catalysis)

Coaching for Improvement
Pre-Summit 2-day workshop
Lean Healthcare Summit in Palm Springs, CA – June 5-6, 2017

Coaching for Development: Structured Coaching Using A3 Thinking
1 day workshop

Lean Enterprise Institute Workshops
Seattle, WA – April 24, 2017

Coaching for Development: Structured Coaching Using A3 Thinking
1 day workshop

Lean Transformation Summit
Pre-summit workshop
Carlsbad, CA – March 6, 2017

Lean Coaching Summit
Minneapolis, Minnesota – July 2016

Summary of breakout session can be found here: Coaching for Improvement: Using A3 Thinking For Personal Development (Part 1 – Overview from Lean Coaching Summit)

Lean Leadership Skills
Temple University (Japan), Continuing Studies Program
April 2016

Australasian Lean Summit and Lean Healthcare Symposium
May 2015
Keynote speaker and class instructor. Summary of one keynote talk can be found here: Leading Daily Improvement: Creating New Habits and Practices to Support Continuous Improvement

Lean Coaching Summit
July 2014
Co-presented breakout session “Coaching for Improvement” with Margie Hagene. Summary of the event can be found in my Lean Post article Building Capability, Transforming Organizations

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