Author: Bella Englebach

There are those places in our world that are arrival and departure points.  A port, a bridge that crosses a great river, an airport, a helipad.  At these places, drivers, transportation companies, airlines, shipping companies, passengers and more rel…

That laptop on your desk – where is it going when you are done with it? Most e-waste is not recycled to reclaim its precious metal components, and it ends up in in landfills. From a lean perspective, there’s a lot of waste n the e-waste problem!  Tha…

Teachers of lean practice emphasize the importance of human interaction and some even eschew the idea of automating processes.  Lauren Hisey has a very different perspective when it comes to our relationship with the machines that are everywhere – es…

At the edges of lean are the practices that look just like lean – but the people who practice them don’t think of themselves as lean practitioners. My guest is Brandon Williams of LeadTAC. Brandon was an F-15 pilot for the US Air Force, and in this p…

In lean thinking, we talk a lot about respect for people.  And that means we need to understand the physical and mental conditions affecting the people we work with.  I know that my training as a lean thinking, continuous improvement professional inc…

How can you use lean thinking with your children?  Karidja Sakanogo, and Sam Morgan, two deeply engaged continuous improvement thinkers, share how they have taken lean thinking home to the family. We also talk about the challenges of raising Black and bi…

Every weekday morning at 10 AM Eastern, women from all over the world meet on Zoom for 30 minutes.  All these women are practitioners of continuous improvement, lean or six sigma. Who are they? Why are they meeting? And who got this started?
In this inau…