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Mark Thompson
Bestselling author of 'Now, Build a Great Business!' and 'Success Built to Last'
Mark Thompson is former Chief of Staff at Charles Schwab and former board member of Best Buy Enterprises, and today is a cofounder/visiting scholar at the Stanford University Venture Design Lab and has been a member of the faculty at the World Economic Forum and John F. Kennedy University. Forbes Magazine called him one of America's top venture investors with the Midas Touch. Mark will speak about Achieving Success Built to Last in the Lean Workplace. He will share his approach for winning deeper support from senior management for the broader business implications and customer benefits created by your lean initiatives.
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Michael Gerster
President
WIKA Instrument Corporation
A global leader in lean manufacturing, WIKA offers a broad selection of stock and custom instrumentation solutions which are often available for distribution within days. Michael has led the implementation of WIKA’s continuous improvement program over 10 years ago and has effectively leveraged operational excellence to achieve significant competitive advantage, drive corporate profitability, and fuel growth through new, innovative products and services and strategic acquisitions.
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Anand Sharma
Founder and CEO TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
Anand Sharma is widely considered as one of the world’s leading experts on Lean business and a founding father of Strategy Deployment in the U.S. Author of two books, Anand has also been extensively quoted on business, manufacturing and the new economy in The Economist, Time and Fortune magazines, and CNN. He was named a Hero of U.S. Manufacturing by Fortune magazine. He will open the conference and provide insights and commentary during the two-day event. He will share his point of view on how to leverage lean as a strategic platform for growth.
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Building the Lean Management System
Panel Discussion Moderated By — David Drickhamer
As a former editor of Industry Week magazine, David Drickhamer wrote a monthly column on continuous improvement and coordinated the “America’s Best Plants” award and benchmarking program. Specializing in organizational development, David currently helps clients develop thought leadership content that supports demand generation efforts and builds stronger relationships with customers, employees and investors.
Leader standard work is a critical component of a lean management system. The members of this panel will discuss how managing for daily improvement and leader standard work sustains process changes, establishes a learning culture and moves your organization forward faster.
This panel will discuss changing how managers approach their daily work and the benefits of establishing more standardized leadership processes. Stop rewarding people for fire-fighting and crisis management. Learn how to build a top-to-bottom culture focused on process discipline, daily improvement, transparency and accountability at all levels.
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