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- Jun 4
- 1 min
Dynamic Duos - May 2021 High Five Friday Review
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
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- May 28
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05/28/21 High Five Friday Feature: Dr. Ebony Spencer-Muldrow & Dr. Sha-Rese Moore
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
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- May 21
- 2 min
05/21/21 High Five Friday Feature: Tracy ORourke & Elisabeth Swan
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
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- May 13
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05/14/21 High Five Friday Feature: Sylvain Landry & Marc-Olivier Legentil
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
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- May 7
- 1 min
#GottaKata! April 2021 High Five Friday Review
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/
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- Apr 30
- 2 min
04/23/21 & 04/30/21 High Five Friday Feature: Julie Simmons
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,
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- Apr 19
- 1 min
Using the KATA for Social Justice - #RootCauseRacism
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
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- Apr 16
- 2 min
04/16/21 High Five Friday Feature: Dorsey Sherman
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
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- Apr 9
- 1 min
04/09/21 High Five Friday Feature: Calvin L. Williams
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
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- Apr 2
- 1 min
March #HighFiveFriday Review
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
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- Mar 12
- 2 min
03/12/21 High Five Friday Feature: Karyn Ross
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
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- Mar 10
- 1 min
A KATA Question...
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
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- Mar 5
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03/05/21 #HighFiveFriday Feature: Kim Crowder
Please join me in celebrating today’s #HighFiveFriday feature: Kim Crowder of Kim Crowder Consulting. Kim is a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) consultant with over 16 years of marketing and communications experience. Through her webinars, workshops, keynotes and coaching, Kim provides anti-racist training and helps leaders embed DEI into a company’s DNA. Her approach gets results because, like in Lean, Kim and her team realize improving diversity isn’t a one-time event.
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- Feb 19
- 2 min
02/19/21 #HighFiveFriday Feature: The KaiNexus Team
Please join me in celebrating today’s #HighFiveFriday feature the KaiNexus team! KaiNexus is a continuous improvement software company that aims to use its technology and experience to help spread continuous improvement. The team is being recognized today for two reasons: First, I celebrate their collaboration with Value Capture, LLC and the introduction of VacciNexus. Mark Graban describes the #VacciNexus system as a “social-benefit startup within a startup.” VacciNexus is a
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