The presentation team is made of up some of the most experienced TWI and Lean company practitioners and coaches. Learn from them during breakout sessions, but just as important, learn from them over coffee, lunch, or a hallway conversation.
Join us for an in-depth conversation, guided by experienced TWI masters. This is a great opportunity to explore more advanced topics with your peers. The meet-up is not designed for those new to TWI (only those who have practiced it).
Author • Thought-Leader • President & Founder Lean Frontiers
David Meier • Glenns Creek Distillery
Oscar Roche • TWI Institute Australia and NZ
Eleanor Glass MD • Integrative Family Care & Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine CMO and Co-founder, Adj Assistant Professor
Rebecca Bettencourt • E&J Gallo
Pat Boutier • TMAC
Hands on interactive session providing an opportunity to see & learn J-programs you may not otherwise have exposure to.
Jamie Smith
Patrick Graupp
Richard Abercrombie
Don Dinero
Rebecca Bettencourt
Patrick Graupp
Mark Rosenthal
Oscar Roche
Mark Warren, Improvement Coach & Industrial Historian
Patrick Graupp
John Vellema
Hugh Alley
Mark Warren
Wayne Meyer • Continental Structural Plastics
Eleanor Glass MD • Integrative Family Care
Paul Riley
Tim Dove
Roger Bilas
Laura Murray
OPTIONAL | FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS
Sam Wagner
Patrick Graupp + Scott Curtis
David Meier was first exposed to the TWI methods in 1987, and has applied them in many industries since that time. David Meier is an internationally recognized authority on Lean Manufacturing and The Toyota Production System (TPS). David is the co-author of the best selling books, The Toyota Way Fieldbook, (McGraw-Hill, 2005), and Toyota Talent, (McGraw-Hill, 2007) with Jeffrey Liker.
The modern workplace is certainly different from the workplace when the TWI programs were originally developed.
Toyota Talent provides greater detail for using the TWI Job Instruction method for the more complex jobs of today.
David has applied the TWI Job Instruction method to every type of work in many different industries, and can provide a more clear understanding of how to use this powerful method to develop talent within your organization!
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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.
Integrative Family Care & Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine CMO and Co-founder, Adj Assistant Professor
Undergraduate: Washington University in St. Louis
Medical school: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
The Christ Hospital/University of Cincinnati Family Medicine Residency
The Helms Medical Institute Acupuncture for Physicians
Dr. Glass is a third generation Dr. Glass! She is committed to and excited to start a Direct Primary Care practice in Cincinnati, inspired by the legacy begun by her grandfather, a primary care doctor in England. Dr. Glass is building a family medicine practice which supports both patient and physician in the pursuit of health.
As a faculty member with the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, Dr. Glass served as a primary care doctor at The Christ Hospital Family Medicine Center. In addition, she broadened her clinical experience by serving as medical acupuncturist for the Center for Integrative Health and Wellness, teaching clinician in the newborn nursery and the office procedures clinic, and staff member at The Christ Hospital Urgent Care Center.
Dr. Glass has been recognized with many awards for her studies and clinical work, including: Intern of the Year, Marjorie Grad Vockell Award for Humanism and Compassion in Clinical Care, Gold Humanism Resident as Teacher award, AOA induction, and as Preceptor of the Year. Dr. Glass teaches on various topics including: burnout prevention, integrative approaches to mental health, primary care for HIV/AIDS patients, and quality improvement in EMR usage. Other interests include: pediatrics, women’s health and contraception management, dermatologic procedures, and nutrition, exercise and mindfulness.
For Dr, Glass, an integrative lifestyle means plenty of time in the woods hiking, biking, and running, daily meditation, and close relationships with friends and family. She welcomes you to join Integrative Family Care.
https://ifcdirect.com/our-physicians
Pat has over 40 years of technical and business experience working with companies. He has deep knowledge of Lean concepts, especially Toyota Kata & TWI, and works directly with companies so they can adapt Lean ideas to their own processes. He has worked with firms in the following industries: Mining, coal fired and nuclear reactor power generation, liquid processing, metal processing, food, chemical, cosmetic, furniture, sewing, electronic, defense, office, service, and medical processes.
Patrick began his training career at the SANYO Electric Corporate Training Center in Japan after graduating with Highest Honors from Drexel University in 1980. There he learned to deliver TWI from his mentor Kazuhiko Shibuya. Mr. Shibuya was trained by Kenji Ogawa who was trained by the four TWI Inc. trainers sent from the US to help Japan rebuild industry in 1951. Patrick earned an MBA from Boston University while heading Sanyo’s global training effort. He was later promoted to the head of Human Resources for SANYO North America Corp. in San Diego, CA where he settled.
Patrick partnered with Bob Wrona in 2001 to conduct TWI pilot projects in Syracuse, NY that became the foundation for the TWI Institute which has since trained a rapidly expanding global network of thousands of certified trainers who are now delivering TWI training in the manufacturing, health care, construction, energy, and service industries in the US and around the globe. These efforts were outlined in their book The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors, a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize Recipient for 2007 now in its Second Edition. Patrick is also the author of Implementing TWI: Creating and Managing a Skills-Based Culture published in 2010, Getting to Standard Work in Health Care: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care published in 2012 and now in its Second Edition, and Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize Recipient for 2015. His latest work is Creating an Effective Management System: Integrating Policy Deployment, TWI, and Kata published in 2020.
Kathy Lee is an innovative and resourceful Performance Management and Talent Development Professional with a multidisciplinary business background.
She blends a strong commitment to talent development and performance improvement with a passion for building and implementing effective processes to meet current and strategic corporate objectives.
Kathy embraces challenges with a strong attention to detail and problem solving ability to help define operational outcomes. She possesses an exceptional ability to develop rapport and positive relationships at all levels in the organization.
I’m an experienced talent development and performance improvement leader that creates strategies by consulting, designing, and facilitating leadership, technical, sales, compliance, and operations programs. I establish and maintain highly effective working relationships with leadership at all levels to translate business goals into strategies, priorities, and plans. I have proficiently managed culturally diverse work-groups with strong team management, project management, change management, leadership, and coaching skills. I have a proven track record of developing and coaching high performance teams that create innovative solutions to accomplish business goals.
Brandon Brown is Owner and Master Kata Coach at Continuous Coaching Commitment, LLC, delivering tangible and sustainable continuous improvement results as a Toyota Kata Master Coach and Lean Instructor/Facilitator.
Brandon enjoys developing coaches and spent most of 2016 – 2019 to daily coaching and teaching healthcare professionals how to reach Challenges at Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis TN, and Bryan Health in Lincoln, NE. During these years, Brandon and his team of Master Kata Coaches coached in 14 BMHCC hospitals with over 175 Improvement Kata teams and 12 Advance/Shepherding Groups, each week, throughout 2016-2019.
He has delivered keynote addresses at the 2017 – 2019 TWI North American Summits and delivered the Toyota Kata Experience course in each of the six Annual KataCon Summits from 2015-2020. In November 2017, he was the Keynote speaker at the first TWI-Kata Summit in Prague, CZ and Zilina, SK, in Central Europe to celebrate the newest release of the 19th language of the Toyota Kata book. He has taught the Toyota Kata Experience globally in Canada, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Malaysia and The Philippines. Brandon taught his 3-day Toyota Kata Skill Week for Nike Footwear and Apparel’s 10 factories in Vietnam. Brandon was a Visiting Professor of Operations Management at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville from 2006-2016, both teaching and developing online courses in the Industrial Engineering department. Brandon was a Regional Director and board member for the Southeast Region of the AME from 2012-2016. He is also a Certified John Maxwell Coach, Teacher, and Speaker.
Prior to his current work, he advanced through management leadership at Central States Mfg., as Regional Operations Manager for three facilities in the Eastern Region, which served 17 states. He has served as Engineering Manager for Waterloo Industries and Project Engineer for Lincoln Automotive. He has a Master of Science in Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, as well as a Professional Engineers license in Arkansas.
