JIT Cafe, by Elisabeth Swan and Tracy O’Rourke
It’s Episode 102 and the highlight is our interview with Maribel Topf the Division Manager of Continuous Improvement at Snap-on Tools author of the new book Process Alchemy–she put all her insights into print and we’re going to get a few gems from he…
It’s Episode 101 and the highlight is Tracy an Elisabeth’s interview with Tracy Minutolo—Head of Operational Excellence at the technology health company Hologic. We’ll find out how Tracey morphed from a microbiologist into a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt…
Today’s highlight is whisky cocktails! Or the reason behind our whiskey cocktails. In a crossover celebration of 100 Cafe episodes, Tracy and Elisabeth invited their good friends Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh of the Lean Whiskey podcast to mark t…
It’s Episode 99 and the highlight is Tracy and Elisabeth’s interview with Allison Kestenbaum, the Supervisor of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education at UC San Diego Health. She just got her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification so we dig …
It’s Episode 98 and the highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth’s interview with Lifesharing’s Executive Team—Jeff Trageser and Mike Vazquez. Lifesharing is a nonprofit arm of UC San Diego Health dedicated to organ procurement and—lucky for everyone—they’…
It’s Episode 97 and the highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth’s interview with Cheryl Jekiel, the Founder of Lean Leadership Center, get the scoop on her latest book, Let Go To Lead. Cheryl has a deep background in helping managers go from overpowering…
It’s Episode 96 and the highlight is Tracy and Elisabeth’s interview with Dannette Nelson, the Owner of Stone Soup Diversity. Dannette brings her startup experience and a little Lean Six Sigma sauce to the diversity conversation which has given her t…
Walking Backwards: Does Your Leader Standard Work Support Your Goals, with Chad Bareither Less than 10% of organizations achieve all their strategic goals. Continuous Improvement is meant to help, but …
Causal Reasoning: Lean Special Sauce for Root Cause Analysis, with Peter Cullen Are your fishbones a bit dry? Is your Ishikawa a bit wishy-washy? Do your 5-Whys leave you yyyyyawning? …
Running the Experiments at Menlo Innovations, with Rich Sheridan It’s episode 95 and the highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth’s interview with Rich Sheridan, the CEO and Chief Storyteller at Menlo …
