Steve Waszak – On Organizational Alignment and Popcorn

Steve Waszak – On Organizational Alignment and Popcorn

About the podcast In this episode of State of Readiness, we speak with Steve Waszak, Vice President of Operational Excellence at Green Group Industries about organizational alignment.  For Steve, establishing organizational alignment was key to the transformation that he facilitated during his first two years in his role in OpEx.  We discuss some of the…

James Considine – Operational Excellence and Agile

James Considine – Operational Excellence and Agile

About the podcast In this episode, we will have a conversation with James Considine; the Chief of Staff and Head of Business Programs for the Aging and Caregiving business at Philips, where he oversee the enterprise PMO, Continuous Improvement, and Enterprise Reporting & Analytics. Over the last several years, James has held a variety of…

Donald Kuk – Continuous Improvement Leader Extraordinaire

Donald Kuk – Continuous Improvement Leader Extraordinaire

About the podcast Our guest in this episode of “State of Readiness” is Donald Kuk; continuous improvement expert extraordinaire.  He started his continuous improvement journey in the mid-1990’s at General Electric when he was personally selected by Jack Welch to join Jack and a select group of others senior leaders at GE in the very…

Peter Evans – LEGO

Peter Evans – LEGO

About the podcast In this episode, I interview Peter Evans, Continuous Improvement Director for Lego Group.  I have known Peter for a couple of years.  And we seem to keep running into one another at Operational Excellence conferences – which are the circumstances of our first meeting.  I have always found Peter to be an…

Brent Gleeson; Navy SEAL and Leadership Coach

Brent Gleeson; Navy SEAL and Leadership Coach

About the podcast Welcome to this inaugural episode of “State of Readiness”, a podcast devoted to sharing knowledge of how companies can become high-performance organizations and hosted by Joseph Paris.  Our first guest is Brent Gleeson; a Navy SEAL combat veteran with multiple tours to Iraq and Africa.  Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned…