Applied Excellence

Episode 9 is the Safety Episode. We hear insights from Robert Hafey, Author of Lean Safety and we talk to Bob Forrester of Neptune. "If people know you truly care about them, they'll do their best, no matter what...."

In Episode 8, Engagement, we hear from Ryan Tierney at Seating Matters on how "focusing on growing and developing people' is the key to lean and we talk to Audie Penn about the important role conversations have in building engagement and creating better communities at work.

EP 7 - In this episode, we take a hard look at daily management and how it propels an organization forward. We hear from four experts who have seen the results that come from this key component of lean.

EP 6 – Call it strength in numbers, open source sharing, learning from the mistakes of others – there’s no doubt that a consortium can be a genuine contributor to a company’s success. And that’s why AME maintains consortia are so important today.

EP 5 – AME Canada president, Richard Evans, is an expert in change management and has instructed hundreds of companies on how to effect change management among employees. He shares some tips and proven strategies in this episode of Applied Excellence.

EP 4 - People-centric leadership (PCL) expert and trainer, Lisa Weis, PCL practitioner and president of Cogent Power, Ron Harper, deep dive into people-centric leadership - what it is, why it's important and how it provides enormous value to companies. Marc Kuzik, continuous improvement leader for Argus Machine, also talks about the impact of a recent PCL training session on his employees.

EP 3 - This episode of Applied Excellence features a conversation with the president of Cogent Power, Ron Harper, who has been practicing people-centric leadership (PCL) for more than 10 years, on the power of PCL and how it can move an organization forward in significant ways.

EP 2 - AME Canada president, Richard Evans, event facilitator and continuous improvement/EH&S manager for the ESCO Corporation, Brad Robertson, and lean expert and author Michael Bremer talk about what's in store for practitioners at the upcoming May 2 AME Canada world-class plant tour at Tremco and the workshop, "How to do a Gemba walk" that follows.

EP 1 - AME Canada president Richard Evans and lean expert Jim Winn talk about what's in store for practitioners at the April 4 AME Canada world-class plant tour at Honda and the lean management systems workshop that follows.