Andrew Chrostowski; Chairman of the Board and  CEO, RealWear

Andrew Chrostowski; Chairman of the Board and CEO, RealWear

About the podcast I invite Andrew Chrostowski, Chairman of the Board and Acting CEO of RealWear to “State of Readiness”.  We start with discussing what RealWear is all about – and it is one of the coolest systems I have seen for employee-enablement.  RealWear had designed and developed ruggedized head-mounted wearable Android-class tablet computer that…

Caroline Bondier – Director, Process Development and Program Management at KONE Corporation

Caroline Bondier – Director, Process Development and Program Management at KONE Corporation

About the podcast With fifteen years of international work experience, Caroline Bondier joined with KONE Corporation in 2011 as a CRM Business Analyst and has moved up the ranks of leadership to her present position as the Director, Process Development and Program Management for KONE’s Modernization Business Line.  After some struggle to find work, Caroline…

Dale Bayley – Lean Director of the Filtration Group at Parker Hannifin

Dale Bayley – Lean Director of the Filtration Group at Parker Hannifin

About the podcast I welcome Dale Bayley, the Lean Director of the Filtration Group of Parker Hannifin to this edition of State of Readiness.  Parker Hannifin is a an publicly-traded American corporation (NYSE: PH) founded in 1917, revenues of $14.3B(2018), 58,000 employees globally,  and specializing in motion and control technologies which Dale joined in 1978….

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…