Customer Testimonials

Jack Anderson

“There is so much to interact and learn from a lean perspective and I bring back to my company, out of that sharing.”

Jacob Austad

“Just now I have come from a session about the communication gap. I would never have guessed I would participate in that: how to be curious about what your customer feedback is.... He gave me some new perspective.”

Chuks Bisike Ojiako

“I think overall it is an excellent opportunity to meet people and get to understand more about what you are doing.”

Joakim Bjurstrom

“I think it is inevitable if you come here you are going to bring home a number of ideas that you can use directly.”

Marla Burger (Queen of Lean)

“Going to see the companies and seeing the real-life applications of the practices in a company, it has just been a great learning experience.”

Angela Fish

“I highly recommend coming as a team and doing like we did and make sure you have folks in all of the sessions, because some of the ones that don’t seem so exciting when you read them on the agenda have been extremely valuable.”

James Garrick

“Everybody is looking to try to do more with less. And every time I come to these gatherings you learn something. You are exposed to a group of people who are on a common journey of continuous improvement.”

Joni George and Dana Markunas

“Lots of new ideas to take back, it might not be exactly what we do but it certainly sparks ideas of what we can do.”

Malcolm Gladwell

“We don’t have the kind of opportunity to step away from our world and see things through other people’s eyes and that’s the great value of a conference, of course.”

Vance Green

“I hope that next year others will be able to join me and see how we can further our lean journey. I think it was worth the price.”

Jose Guzman

“This is a really nice place to come if you really want to learn and you can connect with different people from all around the world.”

Barry Hendrickson

“It never fails. I can take back a handful of things that I can immediately put into our company to help us improve.”

Denise Iglesias

“One of the things that has actually been really cool is just making connections, meeting different people and having those connections to rely on after the event.”

Nathan Loden

“It was perfect. It was exactly what I was looking for.”

Mikul N. Shah

“We came last year, we learned a lot, we implemented a lot of the things we learned. It gave us real savings in our company.”

Martha Purrier

“Our company started working with lean in 2002, so we have been doing it for about eight years now and in health care, so it is fairly new industry for us combining manufacturing principals with health care, but it is a perfect match.”

Terrence Reed

“When you have a busy schedule all of the stuff that they have available for you gives you an opportunity to see a lot in one week, it really is overwhelming.”

Mike Schmale

“There were three or four little nuggets of wisdom that people presented that I said 'I’ve got to remember that'. ... I spent quite a bit of time talking to someone from health care [and] we still have similar issues we can wrestle through together even though your industries are completely different.”