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Author: Elisabeth Swan and Tracy O'Rourke

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 120: Mind Over Matters: Engaging People to Drive Change with Tony Dottino

Today’s highlight is Tracy and Elisabeth’s interview with Tony Dottino—author, consultant, and one of the rare people who was actually in the room when modern quality thinking was taking shape. …

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 119: Campus Kaizen, with Bernadette Hill and Priya Vankatesan

It’s a brand new year and Tracy & Elisabeth’s highlight is their conversation with Bernadette Hill and Priya Venkatesan from UC Davis—two leaders who’ve helped shape a culture of improvement …

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 118: Fail Better, Solve Faster with Melisa Buie

Today’s highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth’s interview with Melisa Buie, co-author of the just-published Faceplant. We get the skinny on how someone with a PhD in Plasma Physics got drawn …

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 117: Mermaids, Metrics, and Motivation with Kristle Bulleman

Today’s highlight is Tracy and Elisabeth’s interview with Kristle Bulleman, Process Manager for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. She lets us in on what it takes to make the impossible happen — …

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 116: Storytelling as a Change Agent, with Meg Bowles

It’s October at the Cafe, and Elisabeth and Tracy got to sit down with Meg Bowles—co-author of the New York Times bestseller How to Tell a Story—to explore why stories …

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 115: From Blind Spots To Breakthroughs, with Michael Bremer

It’s episode 115 and the highlight is our interview with Michael Bremer—the author who turned the humble Gemba Walk into an art form (and picked up a Shingo Award along …

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 114: The Empathy Advantage, with Shola Kaye

On today’s episode, Tracy & Elisabeth sit down with UK author and empathy firestarter Shola Kaye to unpack, among other things, something called “Empathy Hijacking”—yes, it’s a thing, and yes, …

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 113: Lean, Learning, and Legacy, with Michelle Formanczyk

In today’s episode, Tracy & Elisabeth sit down with process improvement pro Michelle Formanczyk to talk about her exciting new role for this year’s Michigan Lean Conference—and why you won’t …

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 112: Seeing is Solving, with Gwendolyn Galsworth

Today’s spotlight shines on none other than Gwendolyn Galsworth—author, trailblazer, and the reigning doyenne of the visual workplace. In our feature interview, Gwendolyn shares powerful insights into how visual thinking …

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The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast — 111: The Respect Effect: Engagement, Lean, and the Human Factor, with John Guaspari

It’s Episode 111 highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth’s interview with best-selling author John Guaspari–about his latest book, If Engagement the Why, then Respect Is the How. We quizzed John on …

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