About the Speaker

Orillia Ontario

Lean Management: Engaging Employees in Lean Thinking and Implementation

Learn about how Tremco Canada and Voith Hydro gained the buy-in and active involvement of 85% of their employees in implementing Lean. Based on David Mann's book "Creating a Lean Culture", Lean Management provides the tools and standard work practices essential to making Lean a core part of everyone's daily job. With entire departments and production groups focused on Lean, Lean improvements can easily and quickly be implemented with little of no resistance.

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Creating a Lean Culture
Lean Leadership Practices
Standard Work for Leaders
Employee Engagement in Lean

About the Speaker:

Bruce Craig, Senior Consultant, Value Stream Solutions
Bruce Craig draws on over 25 years of experience helping organizations transform their leadership style and practices to one that engages people in continuous improvement. His case stories and insights into how organizations work and how to change them enable him to speak directly to the issues, desires and challenges of leaders. He is a Senior Consultant for Value Stream Solutions Inc. that offers Lean Management training workshops through the Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC). His clients include: CIBC Leadership Centre, Shell Canada, Tremco Canada, Canadian General Tower, Wrigley Canada, Copperweld Canada, Johnson Matthey Ltd., International Wallcoverings, Voith Hydro and the Ontario Government.