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CHECK OUT THE PAST 130+ WORLD-CLASS BUSINESS & INDUSTRY EXPERTS SHARING THEIR BUSINESS SECRETS IN OUR PREVIOUS VIRTUAL SUMMITS

We all work to provide value for our customers and continuously improve our processes. The Virtual Lean Summit is designed to provide you with a wealth of practical applications that you can use right away at work. The Virtual Lean Summit is for those new to Lean as well as the seasoned professionals. Learn skills, frameworks, and tools that will help you improve.This yearly event brings together some of the best Lean and business experts in the world to reveal to you what the top companies and consultants are doing to create a Lean culture.

The Virtual Lean Summit is FREE to attend virtually, but there will be a charge to attend the LIVE Session either in person or virtually.

JOIN OUR LIVE EVENT IN GIG HARBOR, WASHINGTON, USA | JUNE 6-8, 2023

Join people just like YOU from around the world and strengthen your ability to identify problems, creatively solve those problems, and then manage the implementation of your solutions to add customer value, process efficiency and effectiveness, and empower your teams TODAY!

our 2020 Featured Experts From our Very First Event, the Bounce Back Summit

Jared Thatcher & Guests

LIVE SESSION: Monday, May 25th, @ 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

The Bounce Back Summit Kick-Off Live Session (with live audience interaction)

Professor David A. Shore – Harvard

Monday, May 25, Prerecorded Keynote Session

KEYNOTE: Project Restart: 9 Top Tips for Successfully Transitioning From Lockdown to Limbo

Dion Oden

Monday, May 25, Prerecorded Session

Operations & the Culture of an Organization Coming Back from Quarantine: How to Ensure Employee Engagement

Vanessa Harrison-Chambers

Monday, May 25, Prerecorded Session

The Key Ingredient to Maintaining Momentum in These Crazy Times

Allan Freed

Monday, May 25, Prerecorded Session

Tune in to the Needs of Your Customers in the Changing Landscape of Today

Dave Ulrich

LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, May 25th, @ 10:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST

Ten Insights to Discover Opportunities in Crisis: Implications for Individuals, Leaders, and Organizations

Paul Akers

Tuesday, May 26, Prerecorded Session

How 2 Second Daily Continuous Improvements Can Transform Your Business

Tracy O’Rourke

Tuesday, May 26, Prerecorded Session

Conducting Virtual Process Walks, Kaizen Events, and Lean Six Sigma Training Online

Dan Markovitz

Tuesday, May 26, Prerecorded Session

Continuous Improvement? Or Continuous Movement? Hear the Voice of the Process and Stop Driving Yourself (and Your Team) Crazy

Douglas Lundrigan

LIVE SESSION: May 27th, Wednesday @ 9:00 am PST | 12:00 pm EST

Cultivating a Resilient Mindset to Bounce Back After COVID-19

Karyn Ross

LIVE SESSION: May 27th, Wednesday @ 11:00 am PST | 2:00 pm EST

Do More Than Bounce Back! Go Forward with Kindness (and a Little Creativity)!

Katie Anderson

Wednesday, May 27, Prerecorded Session

Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: 8 Practices to Help You Learn, Lead, and Move Forward

John Lovell

Wednesday, May 27, Prerecorded Session

Reflections of Leadership Lessons Learned on the Front Lines

Brad Anderson – Corporate VP @ Microsoft

Thursday, May 28, Prerecorded Session

From Crisis Response to Rebuilding for the Future: 2 Durable Trends to Watch

Liam McKelvie

Thursday, May 28, Prerecorded Session

3 Steps to Overcome Anything

Parmeet Singh Sood

Thursday, May 28, Prerecorded Session

Small Steps Leading to Massive Action: Formula for Business Success

Michael Bremer

Thursday, May 28, Prerecorded Session

12 Vital Actions to Get Your Business to Bounce Back

Jared Thatcher

Friday, May 29, Prerecorded Session

Why You Need to Create a Continuous Cost Improvement System in Your Organization

Kriti Anand

Friday, May 29, Prerecorded Session

Small Business Financing in a COVID-19 Landscape

Andrew Lenti

Friday, May 29, Prerecorded Session

Work, Govern and Improve Your Company From Anywhere with PRESTO Digital Enterprise

Willy Wijnands

LIVE SESSION: May 30th, Saturday @ 10:30 AM PST | 1:30 PM EST | 7:30 PM CEST

Transforming Education & Innovation with eduScrum and Lightschools

Britt van Mensvoort

LIVE SESSION: May 30th, Saturday @ 10:30 AM PST | 1:30 PM EST | 7:30 PM CEST

Transforming Education & Innovation with eduScrum and Lightschools

Jared Thatcher

LIVE SESSION: May 30th, Saturday @ 12:00 PM PST | 3:00 PM EST

Parenting the Lean Way: Improving Your Home Life with Business Inspired Solutions

our 2021 Featured Experts From Our Second Event, the Virtual Lean Summit

DAY 1 – Lean Visual Problem-Solving Tools

Jared Thatcher & Guests

LIVE SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 6:30-7:30 AM PST

The Virtual Lean Summit Kick-Off Live Session (with live audience interaction)

Professor David A. Shore – Harvard

LIVE KEYNOTE SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 7:30-9:00 AM PST | 10:30-12:00 PM EST

KEYNOTE: A Scalable Framework for Problem Solving, Change, and Sustainability

Bjarne Berg Wig

LIVE SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 9:00 AM PST

Meet the Future with Better Organizational Learning

Jorge Luis Fonseca

LIVE SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 11:00 AM PST

Lean – Visual Management

Samuel Crescêncio

LIVE SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 12:00 PM PST

Facing change! How to Align Strategy, Management and Engineering to Maximize Value Delivery

Tracy O’Rourke

LIVE SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 1:00 PM PST

Using Task Boards to Build Better Leader Behaviors

Tracy Defoe

LIVE SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 2:00 PM PST

Patterns for Daily Improvement – Beyond What We Can See

Michelle Hlywa

LIVE SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 4:00 PM PST

The Cardinal Rule: My Lean Journey to Redemption

Horia Slușanschi

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 6:00 PM PST

The Magic of the A3’s

Ritsuo Shingo

LIVE SESSION: Monday, July 19th, @ 7:00 PM PST

A Conversation About Lean Leadership: Shingo’s 5 Step Problem Solving

Mike Denison

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Monday, July 19th

Turning to Science in Problem Solving

Rick Bohan

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Monday, July 19th

Encourage Employee Engagement with 5S Self-Audits

Muhammad Khurram

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Monday, July 19th

TPM a Way Forward Towards Zero Accidents, Zero Waste, Zero Breakdowns, and Zero Defects

Manoel de Queiroz Cordon Santos

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Monday, July 19th

Seeing the Invisible

Roel Blankers

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Monday, July 19th

Lean Meets Process Mining: Process Improvements in a Digital Age

DAY 2 – Design Thinking & Innovation Problem-Solving Tools

Erlin Kakkanad

LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th, @ 8:00 AM PST

Fostering a Culture of Creative Thinking in Problem-Solving

JC Quintana

LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th, @ 9:00 AM PST

Design Thinking: Foundation for Lean Six Sigma

Gemma Jones

LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th, @ 10:00 AM PST

Yes You Can Draw!!! How to Improve Your Visual Process Mapping

Patrick Adams

LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th, @ 11:00 AM PST

Lean Product Development Events: Steps to Drive Innovation and Transformation in Your Business

Gwendolyn Galsworth

LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th, @ 12:00 PM PST

Facing Change! How to Align Strategy, Management and Engineering to Maximize Value Delivery

Elisabeth Swan

LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th, @ 1:00 PM PST

How to Up Your Problem-Solving Skills with Improv Basics

Bella Englebach

LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th, @ 2:00 PM PST

Thinking Divergently and Convergently: Building a Creative Rhythm into Your PDCA Cycle

Simon Banks

LIVE SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th, @ 4:00 – 5:30 PM PST

KEY NOTE – Design Doing: Identifying the Right Problem and Creating Empathy with the Customer

Tim Hampton

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th

What is SCAMPER? How to Use Seven Distinct Approaches to Visualize Creative Solutions to Problems

Sarah Ajani

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th,

Design Sprints: Discovering New Products in your Innovation Sweet Spot

Digna Peña

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Tuesday, July 20th,

The Process of Organizing the Voice of the Client

DAY 3 – Storytelling & Change Management For Buy-In

Lee Rubin

LIVE SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday, @ 7:00 AM PST

KEYNOTE: Storytelling to Build Stronger Teams

Waleed Mazen

LIVE SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday, @ 9:00 AM PST

The Lean Journey: Snowball the Buy-in Process

Derek McIntire

LIVE SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday, @ 10:00 AM PST

The Turnaround of a 40 Year Old Manufacturing Facility – The 3 Phases Utilized

Mike Denison

LIVE SESSION: July 21st, Wednesday, @ 11:00 AM PST

The 4 Keys for Leading Teams in Problem Solving

Andrew Koenig

LIVE SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday, @ 12:00 PM PST

Becoming a Lean-Thinking Organization: How to Get Executive Leadership Buy-In

Rich Sheridan

LIVE SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday, @ 1:00 PM PST

The Power of Storytelling: The Menlo Innovations Story

Tamar Nelson

LIVE SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday, @ 4:00 PM PST

Operational Resilience and Sustainability

Samantha Barr

LIVE SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday, @ 5:00 PM PST

The Moven Change Story Framework: Simplify Complex Change Using the Change Story Tool

Parmeet Singh Sood

LIVE SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday, @ 7:30 PM PST

Implementing Lean from the Top Down

Ira Koretsky

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday

KEY NOTE – Influence to the Power of Story: How to Engage, Inspire, and Influence Your Audiences with Stories

Paul W. Critchley

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: July 21th, Wednesday

Using Stories to Build Instant Credibility

DAY 4 – Agile Visual Problem-Solving Tools

Ole Hopp

LIVE SESSION: Thursday, July 22, @ 9:00 AM PST

Stacey Matrix and 5 Whys – Tackle the Real Problem

Pamela Dukes

LIVE SESSION: Thursday, July 22, @ 10:00 AM PST

Being Authentically Lean and Agile

Allison Greco

LIVE SESSION: Thursday, July 22, @ 12:00 PM PST

Improvement at the Speed of Pandemic

Horia Slusanschi

LIVE SESSION: Thursday, July 22, @ 6:00 PM PST

Agile & Lean: A Harmony of Mindsets

Arman Grigoryan

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Thursday, July 22

Agile Metrics and Their Usage in Day-to-Day Activities

Alena Keck

PRE-RECORDED SESSION: Thursday, July 22

Obeya in the Age of Digital: The Magic of Program Increment (PI) Planning

DAY 5 – Kata Coaching, Leadership Coaching, & TWI

Samer Hamadeh

LIVE SESSION: Friday, July 23rd, @ 7:00 AM PST

Breakout Session – Learning Culture Mirror

Drasko Zivkovic

LIVE SESSION: Friday, July 23rd, @ 8:00 AM PST

Rethinking Consultancy – Lean Meets Digital

Jamie V. Parker

LIVE SESSION: Friday, July 23rd, @ 9:00 AM PST

Transition from DOING Problem Solving to COACHING Problem Solving

Adam Lawrence

LIVE SESSION: Friday, July 23rd, @ 10:00 AM PST

The Wheel of Sustainability: Engaging and Empowering Teams to Produce Lasting Results

Dennis Gawlik

LIVE SESSION: Friday, July 23rd, @ 11:00 AM PST

Executive Coaching: Some Differences In Approach

Gwendolyn Galsworth

LIVE SESSION: Friday, July 23rd, @ 2:00 PM PST

Visual Problem Solving: Many Minds / Many Solutions

D.J. Kim

LIVE SESSION: Friday, July 23, @ 4:00 PM PST