This week’s #HighFiveFriday gives another virtual high five to the extraordinary teams we spotlighted during our May Dynamic Duos in Education theme: Sylvain Landry & Marc-Olivier Lengitil, Tracy ORourke & Elisabeth Swan as well as Dr. Ebony Spencer-Muldrow & Dr Sha-Rese Moore! Please join me in acknowledging their greatness by reading the blog and leaving a celebratory note for the honorees in the comments. Sylvain Landry & Marc-Olivier Lengitil: https://www.deondrawardelle

We are concluding our May High Five Friday theme by recognizing colossal collaborations, powerful partnerships, and dynamic duos who are using their gifts and talents to brighten the lives of others through education. Join me in celebrating today’s #HighFiveFriday feature: Dr. Ebony Spencer-Muldrow and Dr. Sha-Rese Moore Ebony and Sha-Rese are best friends, active members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. They have dedicated their lives to enhancing the student life cy

Hi Friends, We are continuing our May High Five Friday theme by recognizing colossal collaborations, powerful partnerships, and dynamic duos who are using their gifts and talents to brighten the lives of others through education. Join me in celebrating today’s #HighFiveFriday feature: Tracy ORourke and Elisabeth Swan, the co-founders of the Just-In-Time Cafe, Lean Six Sigma master black belts, co-authors of The Problem-Solver’s Toolkit, podcast hosts, and Kata Girl Geeks. Tra

Our High Five Friday theme for May celebrates colossal collaborations, powerful partnerships, and dynamic duos who are using their gifts and talents to brighten the lives of others through education. Join me in celebrating today's #HighFiveFriday Feature: Sylvain Landry and Marc-Olivier Legentil, MSc. Sylvain is a professor at HEC Montreal in Quebec, Canada, the co-author of Lean, Kata and Management System: Reflections, Observations and Stories of Organizations, and manages

This week’s #HighFiveFriday gives another virtual high five to the humble Toyota Kata Coaches we spotlighted during our April Gotta Kata theme: Calvin Williams, Dorsey Sherman, and Julie Simmons! Click on the links to the blogs below to learn more about their inspiring and amazing work in the Kata Community and beyond. Calvin Williams: https://www.deondrawardelle.com/post/04-09-21-high-five-friday-feature-calvin-l-williams Dorsey Sherman: https://www.deondrawardelle.com/post/

Hi Friends, Happy #HighFiveFriday! During April, I recognized Kata coaches who practice the Improvement/Coaching Kata and are making a BIG difference one experiment, one step, one microlearning, one day at a time! Please join me in celebrating the two-time #HighFiveFriday feature: Julie Simmons! Julie currently works with her husband Scott as part of the Scott Wade Simmons & Associates, LLC. She provides leadership coaching and training in Strategy Development and Deployment,

WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT if there were equal rights and equitable opportunities for all within our lifetime? In a recent Documenting the Journey podcast episode with the host, Calvin L Williams, we talked about how Continuous Improvement has such broad application that goes beyond the shop floor. Click on the link below and listen to how the #RootCauseRacism team is using the steps of the Improvement Kata to address social justice issues in education, health care, government and

Hi Friends, Happy #HighFiveFriday! During April, I am recognizing people who are practicing the Toyota Kata and are making a BIG difference one experiment, one step, one microlearning, one day at a time! Please join me in celebrating today’s #HFF feature: Dorsey Sherman! Dorsey Sherman is the Founder of Modèle Consulting. She teaches and coaches organizations to reach their full potential by practicing scientific thinking and strategy deployment. Dorsey models the fifth princ

Hi Friends, Happy #HighFiveFriday! Fridays are one of my most favorite days of the week because that’s when I: Recognize greatness Celebrate scientific thinkers, and Spotlight everyday problem solvers As a result of my experience with co-hosting KataCon7, presenting the KaiNexus Kata in the Community Webinar, and taking the time to learn more about the innovative work of this week’s high five Friday feature,,, I’ve decided it’s time to take the #HighFiveFriday feature #OnToTh

This week’s #HighFiveFriday gives another virtual high five to the phenomenal world-changers we recognized during March: Kim Crowder, Karyn Ross, Mike Rother and The Women in Lean Community! Click on the links to the blogs and videos in this post to learn more about the honorees’ work and join me in celebrating their greatness. Kim Crowder: https://www.deondrawardelle.com/post/03-05-21-highfivefriday-feature-kim-crowder Karyn Ross: https://www.deondrawardelle.com/post/03-12-2

Please join me in celebrating today’s feature: Karyn Ross. Karyn is: The author of How to Coach for Creativity and Service Excellence; The Toyota Way to Service Excellence; Think Kindly – Speak Kindly – Act Kindly; Big Karma and Little Kosmo Help Each Other Founder of the Love and Kindness Project Foundation An international, highly acclaimed keynote speaker A consultant, coach and practitioner One of the founding mothers of the Women in Lean Community An artist A fashion des

Tilo Schwarz and I are excited to co-host the Lean Frontiers International KataCon 7, A Virtual "Pajama Pants" Summit. The summit agenda includes dynamic speakers, excellent resources and tremendous opportunities to network. KataCon practitioners are curious and love to ask at least five questions! Leading up to the conference, Tilo interviewed one of the KataCon7 speakers, Dr. Jeffrey Liker. Dr. Liker is the author of The Toyota Way, 2nd edition. In the interview, Dr. Liker