Detailed Speaking Engagement List

Detailed Speaking Event List:

Note: Many private events at health systems are not listed below

  • Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, San Diego, Joyce Kaye Lecture on Patient Safety (5/08)
  • Iowa Healthcare Collaborative Annual Meeting, Keynote (8/08)
  • Operational Excellence Conference, Utah State Univ., “Lean Methods, Lean Culture, and Error Prevention” (9/08)
  • Lab Quality Confab, Atlanta, “Engaging Employees to Embrace Lean and Energizing their Creativity” (9/08)
  • Productivity Inc. Lean Healthcare Forum, Nashville, “Hospital Heal Thyself: Using Lean Methods to Improve Patient Care” (10/08)
  • Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Guest Lecture in MBA Operations Class (2/09 and 10/09)
  • University of Turabo, Puerto Rico, Presentations to Hospital Staff and University Talk (3/09)
  • ValuMetrix Services Executive Roundtable, Washington D.C., Keynote Talk (3/09)
  • Society for Health Systems Annual Conference, Chicago, “Engaging Staff in Lean Improvements in Patient Care Settings (4/09)
  • South Central Association of Blood Banks Conference, Oklahoma City, “How Lean Thinking Helps Hospitals” (4/09)
  • Executive War College Meeting for Laboratory and Pathology Management, New Orleans, “Quick and Effective Ways to Continuously Transform People Development in Your Laboratory” (5/09)
  • MIT Lean Healthcare Academy, Guest Lecture (7/09) – Video
  • Triple-S Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Quality Event, San Juan, P.R.., Keynote Talk (10/09)
  • Ontario Hospital Association “HealthAchieve” Event, Toronto, “Bridging the Gap: From Understanding and Using Lean Tools to Transforming Organizational Leadership” (11/09)
  • Portland (OR)-area Health System (11/09) – Keynote addresses and presentations to staff (day-long)
  • MIT Leaders for Global Operations alumni conference, Portland OR, “Healthcare and Lean Methods” (11/09)
  • UniLabs Lean Laboratory Conference, Sweden, “Lean Leadership for Improved Healthcare Value Streams” (1/10)
  • Society for Health Systems Conference (2/10), “Training Within Industry for Healthcare” – SummarySlides
  • MIT Leaders for Global Operations Pro-Seminar (3/10), Guest lecture to MBA students
  • Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference,  ”Eliminating Waste Using Lean Management Practices without Conducting Week-Long Events” (3/10)
  • ExL Pharma Summit, Philadelphia (3/10), Lean Sigma & Kaizen for R&D
  • Massachusetts Lean Healthcare Practitioners Network, (4/10) – Keynote talk
  • Major Medical Device Company, Illinois (4/10) – “Lean methods to understand the needs of our customers”
  • Honda Supplier Lean Network Conferece, Ohio (5/10)– Lean healthcare overview
  • Shingo Prize Annual Conference, (5/10) – “How Lean Thinking Helps Healthcare”
  • NYC Health and Hospital Corporation, (6/10) – Keynote talk at management conference on lean (“Breakthrough”) healthcare leadership
  • Lean Healthcare West, (9/10) – Lean Leadership Retreat, “Warning: Signs! From Cautionary Circulars to Proactive Prevention
  • Erie St. Clair LHIN, Windsor Ontario (9/10) – Keynote talk at “Quest for Quality” event
  • Michigan Lean Consortium, (9/10) – Lean Healthcare event, See attendee Comments
  • KCOE North American Operational Excellence Summit, 10/10, Keynote talk
  • Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 10/10, Keynote at “Lean Immersion Day.”
  • CONNSTEP Manufacturing and Business Conference, Hartford, CT, 11/10, “How Lean Thinking Helps Hospitals“
  • Lean Software Austin (TX), 1/11
  • TechSolve, Cincinnati, OH,  2/11, Healthcare Leadership Series
  • North Texas Association for Healthcare Quality, 2/11, Keynote talk
  • California Association for Healthcare Quality, 3/11, ”Warning: Signs!
  • Shingo Prize Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 3/11, “Warning: Signs!
  • World Congress Leadership Summit on Process Improvement in Healthcare, Chicago, IL, 4/11, “Why Your Hospital Should be Like a Factory… Or At Least Some…”
  • Lean Construction Institute, Dallas, TX, 5/11, Value Stream Mapping for Healthcare
  • North Texas Society for Healthcare Risk Management, Grapevine, TX, 9/11, “10 Key Lean Mindsets” and “Healthcare Kaizen”
  • Southern Illinois Healthcare, Carbondale, IL, 9/11, “10 Key Lean Mindsets” and “Healthcare Kaizen”
  • Mainline Health System, PA, 10/11, “How Lean Thinking Helps Hospitals”
  • 2011 Patient Flow Summit, Las Vegas, 10/11, “How Lean Thinking Helps Patient Flow”
  • Lean & Six Sigma Applied to Healthcare Conference, Plano, TX, 10/11, “Kaizen: Putting the Continuous back into Continuous Improvement”
  • ASQ Lean and Six Sigma Conference, Phoenix AZ, 2/12, “Kaizen: Daily Continuous Improvement” (Overall review score was 9.6 out of 10, average for the conference was 8.7)
  • Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2/12, “Improving Improvement: From the Suggestion Box to Visual Idea Boards”
  • Lean Healthcare PowerDay, Las Vegas, NV, 4/12, “Why Your Hospital Should be Like a Factory… or at Least Some of Them…”
  • VHA Georgia’s 2nd Annual Lean Six Sigma Conference, Atlanta, GA, 9/12, “Where Traditional Leadership Goes Wrong:  Implementing a Kaizen Approach to Improvement”
  • Northeast Shingo Prize Annual Conference, Worcester, MA, 9/12, “Putting the Continuous Back into Continuous Improvement”
  • ASAE, The Center for Association Leadership, Healthcare Associations Conference,  Chicago, IL, 11/12, “Healthcare Kaizen”
  • Texas Association for Healthcare Quality, Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, 10/12, “Healthcare Kaizen and KaiNexus
  • Lean Startup Conference, San Francisco, CA, 12/12, “Parallels between Lean Healthcare Design & Lean Startups” – Video
  • American Academy of Emergency Medicine, 2/13, “Improving ED Operations through Radical Redesign and Continuous Improvement”
  • HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 3/13, “Healthcare Kaizen: Daily Improvement, Not Just Events”
  • Lean Kanban North America, Chicago, IL, 4/13, “How Lean Thinking Helps Hospitals – and Patients!”
  • Lean Healthcare Conference, Quebec, 5/13, Keynote: “10 Lean Mindsets for Lean Healthcare” and “Healthcare Kaizen Workshop”
  • Lean Healthcare Event, Helsinki, Finland, 5/13, Full Day of Lean Healthcare Teaching and Q&A
  • Quorum Health Resources, Nashville, 6/13, Internal Lean Leader Event
  • Holzer Health System, Ohio, 9/13, Internal Leadership Meeting Event
  • UT Health System Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Course, San Antonio, 9/13, Lean & Patient Safety Instructor
  • Advanced ICU Care, St. Louis, 9/13, Speaker for Customer Event
  • West Virginia Values Collaborative, 9/13, Keynote Speaker for Annual Meeting
  • Software Development and Evolution Conference, Winnipeg, 10/13, Keynote Speaker for Annual Conference | Video & Slides
  • Lean Construction Institute, Dallas, 10/13, Keynote Speaker for Annual Conference
  • NorQuest College Lean Speaker Series, Edmonton, 11/13
  • The Lean Startup Conference, San Francisco, 12/13, “Engaging Your Team in Continuous Improvement”
  • University of Michigan Health System, 1/14 “Improving the Way We Improve: Healthcare Kaizen”
  • Maine Hospital Association Small or Rural Hospital Conference, 2/14, “Transforming Healthcare With Lean Thinking”
  • Society for Health Systems Conference, 2/14, “Two Data Points Do Not Make a Trend: Using SPC to Make Better Management Decisions
  • Lean Transformation Summit, 3/14, “Kaizen Success: From Making Excuses to Solving Problems
  • Society for Cardiovascular Patient Care, 4/14, “Applying Process Improvement in an Ever-Changing Environment”
  • Shingo Institute Conference, 5/14, “Kaizen Coaching: Improving How We Improve”
  • Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, 6/14, CEO Panel Moderator
  • Housing & Community Economic Development, Indiana Statewide Conference, 9/14, “Improving How We Improve: Engaging Everybody, Every Day”
  • UMass Memorial Health System, 10/14, Leadership Retreat
  • Dutch Lean Event, The Netherlands, 11/14, Conference talk on Lean & Kaizen in Healthcare
  • Northeast Home Health Leadership Summit, Boston, 1/15, “Healthcare Kaizen”
  • Bay Area Process Improvement Network, San Francisco, 1/15, “Lean Healthcare: To Japan and Back”