Mastering Lean Leadership - Volume I

The classic edition for Lean leadership at all organizational levels.

Special Foreword — Chauncey Bell
Chairman and Chief of Design at Harvester & Co.

Special Afterword — Gregory A. Howell, P.E.
Co-founder and past President of the Lean Construction Institute

Mastering Lean Leadership - Volume I

Special Foreword — Mike Staun
Associate Director, Global Capital Management Proctor & Gamble

As the AD responsible for Global Capital Management, Mike leads Procter & Gamble’s capital program. P&G spends over $3 billion per year in new facilities and equipment to support brands including Tide, Dawn, Pampers, Bounty, Olay, Crest, and Gillette.

Guest Writer — Stephanie Roldan
Corporate Lean Manager, Rosendin Electric

Stephanie has been part of Rosendin Electric’s
Lean transformation for over 10 years. Her field experience and 18 years in the electrical industry, allows her to focus on defining value and providing a quality product that adds value to customers.

Guest Writer — William (Bill) R. Seed
Senior Vice President, Facility Design & Construction
Jackson Health System

Bill has a history of transforming companies’ project delivery models to Integrated Lean Project Delivery including his current role, Disney, and Universal Health Services. He is a member of the Lean Construction Institute Board of Directors and a recipient of the LCI Pioneer award.

Guest Write — Mark Konchar
Chief of Innovation & Senior Vice President Balfour Beatty

In his roles at Balfour Beatty in the US, Mark is accountable for and facilitates the innovation strategy and operates as a member of the senior leadership team. Mark currently serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Lean Construction Institute.

Guest Writer — Stan Chiu
Vice President, Board Member, HGA

Stan is a leading voice in architectural design, speaking on topics as broad as the subject of what’s next in design, and as concentrated as the integration of Lean Project Delivery. He was a contributor to the LCI “Target Value Delivery” book.

Guest Writer — Tariq Abdelhamid
RHS Chief Lean Performance Officer, Associate Professor of Lean Construction, Division of Residential & Hospitality Services
Michigan State University

Tariq began his Lean journey around 2000. He enjoys researching, teaching and coaching Lean in the industry. He has been working at MSU since 2013.

Special Afterword — Gregory A. Howell, P.E.
Co-founder and past President of the Lean Construction Institute

The Morrissey Goodale Special Edition - Volume I

Special Foreword — Robert F. Pence
Chairman, Freese and Nichols. Inc

Bob’s journey in lean leadership includes a 14-year stint as CEO of Freese and Nichols, during which the company became the first engineering firm to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Guest Writer — Bernadette Muncy
Senior Associate with SmithGroup, an integrated AEP firm. 

Bern is compelled to help others by calling the question everyone wants to know the answer to but is afraid to ask. Leading without fear is her superpower.

Guest Writer — Brian Snyder
Partner with Clark Nexsen, a full-service AEP firm based in Virginia Beach, VA

Brian finds satisfaction in sharing stories of past challenges with others, not for the purpose of tallying mistakes, but to foster an environment that celebrates improvement.

Guest Writer — Jay Ierardi
Partner at AKF Group, a full-service consulting engineering firm based in New York, NY. 

Jay is the quintessential learner. He is fearless about conducting experiments and learning his way toward group goals. When Jay sees a better path, don’t bet against him taking it.

Guest Writer — Jeff A. Romeo, P.E.
Executive Vice President with Fitzemeyer & Tocci Associates,
afull-service MEP/FP in Woburn, MA

Jeff is an enthusiastic advocate for improvement in action — where waiting on perfection is not an option, and where no improvement is too small to matter.

Guest Writer — Reg Christopher
Principal at Terracon, a multi-discipline firm based in Olathe, KS.

Reg is an entrepreneur at heart. After founding and growing the geotechincal and materials testing firm, WPC, Inc., to over 200 people, Reg successfully merged his firm with Terracon. He sees Lean as the design and environmental industry’s platform for sustainable, profitable growth.

Special Afterword — Mark Goodale
Co-founder, Morrissey Goodale

Mark is a co-founder of Morrissey Goodale LLC. His breadth of
experience includes strategic planning, Lean operational strategies, mergers & acquisitions, marketing, and executive search. He is a trusted advisor and coach to dozens of architecture and engineering industry executives.

Mastering Lean Leadership - Volume I

Special Foreword — Art Winslow
Director: Lean Construction, Graham Construction

Art is proud to be one of Canada’s few Certifi ed Lean Construction instructors, sharing his lean knowledge with government agencies and the private sector and is a Lean facilitator on many Lean construction projects. across Canada.

Guest Writer — Bob Croft, FRAIC, SAA
Architect & Managing Partner, CITE360studio, a full-service API firm based in Regina, SK

Bob’s Lean love comes from the “A-ha!” moments — somewhere between the heart and mind awareness — when eliminating waste creates tremendous project value. Enlightened by Lean Measurement Data in spaces, functions, flows and processes, new team creativity emerges in waste-eliminating knowledge: opening up the possibility of the desired future state.

Guest Writer — Carla Ciepliski, P.Eng
Lean Coach and Consultant, Ternion Results Inc.

Carla has embraced a ‘learn-do-teach’ mentality for her 20+ year journey that began within Procter & Gamble and continues today to support diverse organizations in the adoption of Lean and continuous improvement.

Guest Writer — Shafraaz Kaba
Partner, Manasc Isaac Architects

Shafraaz began his Lean journey when his client for the Mosaic Centre, a net-zero energy commercial building in Edmonton, insisted he learns about Lean and the tools that would enable him to deliver this project under budget and ahead of schedule.

Guest Writer — Murray Guy
CEO Integrated Designs & Principal, Shift2Lean

Integrated Designs & EcoSmart Developments utilize Lean Construction practices to deliver some of the industries most cost-effective high-performance green buildings. Murray helped launch LCI-Canada and Shift2Lean so that others can benefit from the amazing performance improvements that are achievable.

Guest Writer — Lamis Youssef
Production Engineer-in-training at METTKO

Lamis is an experienced industrial engineer-in-training with a demonstrated history of working in various industries ranging from construction, academia, mining,information technology, commercial banking and supply chain.

Special Afterword — Darren D. Becks, MBA, CHRL
Vice-President, Administration at St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Canada

Darren is a Lean champion that embraces every Lean learning opportunity. His journey began in 2010, highlighted with a 2015 $47M Lean build project. Darren now spends his time talking to owners, spreading the Lean message, and working to apply Lean within university operations.