The presentation team is made of up some of the most experienced KATA practitioners and coaches. Learn from them during breakout sessions, experientials and keynotes. But, just as important, learn from them (and each other) over coffee, lunch, or in a hallway conversation.
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Tracy Defoe + Deondra Wardelle
Oscar Roche
Brandon Brown
Join Tilo Schwarz! Participants must be familiar with Toyota Kata and have personal coaching experience using the Coaching Kata. Learn more here!
A fun warm up for the summit! In the spirit of sharing, networking and growing community – join us for multiple 5-minute mini presentations complimented with group discussion.
Thought-Leader • On To The Next One Consulting
Thought-Leader • Illuminate Coaching & Consulting
Now that your wheels are turning... let's chat!
Thought-Leader
Thought-Leader • CEO + Founder, JSF Optimisation Inc.
Now that your wheels are turning... let's chat!
Thought-Leader
Executive Lean Leader-Finance • G.E.
Now that your wheels are turning... let's chat!
What's everyone been up to this past year? In a series of short 5 minute presentations we'll find out!
Oscar Roche + Dr Lou Flaspohler • Thought-Leader
Dirk Van Rossum • Helena Industries
Wayne Meyer • Teijin Automotive
Chandra Boersma • Statistics Canada
Warren Peters + Steven Craig • Brunswick Steel
Pat Geary + Mike Casten • Story Construction
Dr. Lou Flaspohler • The Christ Hospital
Brittani Chambers • General Dynamics Land Systems
Raaghavan Venkatram • Norton McMurray Manufacturing
Beth Carrington facilitates this deep dive into the critical role an Advance Group can have in imbedding scientific thinking and the skill to teach it to others within an organization. Beth will share strategies to building and coaching Advance Groups based on lessons learned and practiced across a wide range of very large to very small organizations. Organizations in diverse industries: manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, education, banking, insurance, data storage and the list goes on.
Discuss how Advance Groups learn shepherd kata practice throughout their organizations through various phases, focusing on different aspects of their kata practitioners as their skill develops.
We’ll talk about an Advance Group’s gemba, their Learner’s Storyboards, and how their processes are coaching cycles, 2nd coach sessions and Learner’s PDCA’s. Advance Group members, and specifically the Advance Group learner needs to go to their gemba and take PDCA’s based on what they learn.
Active Advance Groups will assure “timing of practice” and “quality of practice” produces effective coaches for advancing scientific thinking deeper and wider in their organization.
Active Advance Groups will assure “timing of practice” and “quality of practice” produces effective coaches for advancing scientific deeper and wider in their organization.
Mark Rosenthal
Mark Rosenthal • Thought-Leader
Summit Closing • Jim Huntzinger + Beth Carrington + Sylvain Landry
A visionary leader, entrepreneur, coach and speaker, Deondra R. Wardelle specializes in empowering individuals and corporate groups through strategic visioning to achieve goals and sustain transformative change. Deondra launched On To the Next One Consulting, LLC, to serve as a strategic partner, cultural change agent and operational expert for clients. She works alongside business partners to assess, prioritize and address operational challenges.
Her services range from facilitating strategy and alignment workshops to coaching leaders on diversity, equity and inclusion principles; educating teams on the tenets of Lean and the Toyota Way; and creating affinity and employee resource groups – all designed to help partners meet short and long-term business goals. Deondra’s vision is to help organizations, groups and individuals overcome obstacles and achieve their grandest visions and dreams – one step at a time. This includes her current passion project the #RootCauseRacism movement, a global initiative to end systemic racism and advance social justice through the practice and application of continuous improvement methodologies.
Website: www.deondrawardelle.com
Sam is a self-titled “confident learner” and last year after 5 years of work in the continuous improvement space he landed at KataCon. There he had powerful moment where he realized where his true passion lies, transforming people through coaching.
Ever since then he has been on a mission to help his clients illuminate who they really, what they were created to do and give them confidence to live it out…through the powerful practice of daily coaching. Sam helps change the lives of his clients through the process of uncovering their PURPOSE, helping them understand the PATTERN of the Improvement Kata, tied together through the PRACTICE of daily coaching cycles.
Sam takes joy in seeing his clients move from fearful to fearless. And resonates deeply with the quote from Henry David Thoreau “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
Julie is an industrial engineer with a master ’s degree in health systems engineering from Polytechnique Montréal. She has developed a comprehensive vision of healthcare organization through her roles as process improvement practitioner, strategic advisor, and manager. Having participated in several changes — both technological and structural — in the organization of care and services, she has acquired a deep knowledge of the challenges of this complex ecosystem.
To manage complex and volatile situations, she experimented the benefits of Toyota Kata, non-violent communication, and positive psychology. The more we know about systems, the more we realize the human factors are at the core of their design and their successes.
Oscar Roche works closely with clients to realize organizational change, develop people capability and meet business improvement goals. He believes the long-term success of any business lies in the development of it’s people.
This belief, combined with extensive operations management experience, helps him add value to every organization he works with. Oscar holds a Bachelor of Applied Sciences. His diverse sector expertise includes training, logistics, FMCG, chemicals, beverages and food. Having run his own business and worked in various manufacturing roles for many years, he keenly appreciates the competing pressures modern firms face.
Brunswick Steel, Business Excellence Manager + Training Coordinator
Warren has spent the last year with Brunswick Steel as the Business Excellence Manager playing a key role within a team that is developing a one-piece flow mentality in a Steel Processing Plant. Before Brunswick, Warren spent 5.5 years at Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters as a lean facilitator working with organizations on lean assessments, strategy deployment, frontline leader development, cultural change, and process improvement projects. Before CME, Warren had a 20-year career in the manufacturing sector where he steadily assumed more senior roles, including operational responsibility for multiple plants across Canada. His experience from the shop floor to the boardroom provides him with a valuable perspective from which to provide guidance, coaching, facilitation, and training services.
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Steven has been with Brunswick steel for the past 16 years & has had the opportunity to work in a variety of areas such as saw, brake press, laser, overhead crane, and forklift operations. He also spent a few years scheduling the plant before transitioning into the role of Training Coordinator. Because of his passion for training and Brunswick seeing the need for proper training, Steven went through the TWI JI training which has now given him the proper tools required to train people correctly, safely & conscientiously. Stevens also an integral part to Brunswick steels Safety program as he has been a co-chair on the committee for the past few years.
Currently Brittani Chambers:
With a background in Education:
Outside of work Brittani enjoys singing, volunteering, painting, and traveling with her husband Charles and young son Cameron. You can often find her on stage or surrounded with children learning and discovering something new.
A results driven lean director and manager with over twenty years experience implementing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement. Deep understanding of the Toyota Production System with proven ability see any organization’s potential, cut to the core issues, gain “buy-in” and get things moving by engaging the entire team to develop solutions to impact the bottom line. An effective change agent who facilitates the process of discovery.
Specialties: Lean Manufacturing implementation in brown field or green field operations.
Operations Excellence · Leadership Team Training and Development · Study Missions · Strategy Development · Value Stream Mapping · Taming ERP / MRP Systems · Supplier and Supply Chain Development · 3P · Kaizen · Heijunka · Kanban · Work Cells · A3 Problem Solving
Always seeing the possibilities.
