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Lean Leadership: a continuing series of interviews with senior executives on how they lead in a lean culture

By Chet Marchwinski

September 5, 2013

The Lean Enterprise Institute interviews executives from manufacturing, service, and healthcare organizations on what they had to do differently to manage and lead in a lean management system.

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In a continuing series of articles on the challenges of leading and sustaining lean transformations, the Lean Enterprise Institute will interview executives from a variety of companies to learn how they changed the ways they managed and led in order to create lean cultures. Here are the interviews to date in alphabetical order:

  • Dan Ariens, CEO of Ariens Co
  • Gary Berndt, C-level executive at automotive, food, building products, power generation, and aeronautics companies
  • Jack Billi, M.D., associate dean and associate vice president for medical affairs University of Michigan Medical School
  • Derek Browning, lean deployment executive, LeanCor
  • C.J. Buck, CEO of Buck Knives
  • Jerry Bussell, co-founder of the Jacksonville Lean Consortium and former vice president of Global Operations at Medtronic Surgical Technologies
  • Robert Chapman, chairman and CEO of Barry-Wehmiller
  • Thomas Hartman, Senior Director, Autoliv Americas
  • Bill Hopkins, Akron Children’s Hospital board member and former vice president, technology/strategic initiatives, at Goodyear
  • Michael Hoseus, co-author with Jeffrey Liker of Toyota Culture; former general manager at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, KY
  • Jay Johnson, president, Plumbers Supply Company
  • Hank McHale, manufacturing CEO
  • Gary Peterson, executive vice president, supply chain and production, O.C. Tanner
  • Chris Vogel, senior vice president, Wells Fargo Home and Consumer Finance
  • Karl Wadensten, president, VIBCO
  • John Wilson, executive vice president of manufacturing, New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc
  • Lisa Yerian, MD, director of Hepatobiliary Pathology, medical director of continuous improvement, Cleveland Clinic
  • Joel Zeller, director of logistics for Polaris Industries and Robert Martichenko, LEI faculty member
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About Chet Marchwinski

Chet has been a humble, unwashed scribe of the lean continuous improvement movement since books by Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo first hit North America in the 1980s. At LEI, he contributes to content creation, marketing, public relations, and social media. Previously, he also wrote case studies on lean management implementations in…

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