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At NWHPEC, we believe continuous learning extends beyond our own offerings. On this page, you'll find a curated selection of webinars and conferences from trusted external sources that align with our mission to support your efforts to foster a culture of continuous improvement. These recommendations are chosen for their quality and relevance and to compliment our offerings.

Event Details:
Free for AME members; $150 for a membership

Refresh your lean knowledge or lay the foundation for your lean journey

Welcome to the Back to Basics Summit, a virtual event offered every Wednesday in March, designed to empower individuals at all levels of their lean journey. Over four sessions, we will explore essential Lean tools and methods that can be implemented in any organization, from the manufacturing floor to the executive suite. Thought leaders will provide practical knowledge and insights that participants can immediately apply in their work environments.

Whether you’re taking your first steps, seeking new perspectives on foundational topics or looking to refresh your knowledge, the AME Back to Basics Lean Summit will lay the groundwork for your lean journey. You’ll hear directly from industry-leading voices on topics around the following themes:

March 5 – Foundation of lean principles and tools
March 12 – Enhancing Lean with visual management
March 19 – Building a lean culture
March 26 – Strategy deployment

Summit goals

The AME Back to Basics Summit aims to:

  • Provide a high-level overview of lean principles
  • Focus on key Lean tools that drive improvement
  • Foster discussions on Lean culture and strategy deployment
  • Equip participants with actionable strategies to implement Lean concepts effectively within their organization

Who should attend

The summit is open to everyone who is:

  • Just beginning their Lean journey
  • Using Lean tools and seeking more examples and applications
  • Looking for guidance on how to deploy strategies effectively

A virtual summit to fit your schedule

The AME Back to Basics Lean Summit will be presented virtually on four Wednesdays in March. Join us March 5, 12, 19, and 26 from wherever you access the internet via AME’s Zoom platform and hear foundational examples and information from lean leaders from around the globe. Each session is 1.5 hours, allowing you to balance your professional responsibilities and your professional development needs. You’ll hear basic lean concepts and come away with actionable takeaways every week. Check the Schedule for more details. 

The KATA Summit is an annual gathering of those seeking to grow personally and professionally by practicing, and coaching, scientific thinking.  Most recently the KATA community has become passionate about connection, collaboration and giving back.  Learning together rather than in isolation.

The Summit is full of learning opportunities!

  • 20 minute keynotes
  • breakout case studies 
  • the legendary Kata Geek Meet Up
  • and more…

The TWI Summit is an annual gathering of those seeking to learn, implement, and sustain successful TWI Programs (Training Within Industry) in order to address some of the most common challenges in lean organizations. The Summit highlights companies who are addressing these challenges through TWI’s Job Instruction, Job Methods, and Job Relations programs which impacted Toyota in its formative stages.

The events happen concurrently. 

Info & registration

  • Speaker: Dr. Paul F. DeChant
  • Date/time: 9am-10am PT on 04/08/2025
  • Registration link: please click here.
  • Target audience: Healthcare leaders, clinicians, lean educators, coaches, and practitioners.
  • Key takeaways:  A deep understanding of burnout’s dimensions and drivers providing an ability to apply these in any organization;  A model for managing and preventing burnout that healthcare leaders and clinicians can apply to their daily work

A culture of continuous improvement starts with a foundation of psychological safety—the belief that team members can speak up about mistakes, concerns, and ideas without fear of punishment. Drawing insights from “The Mistakes That Make Us” and the Shingo Model, this webinar with Mark Graban explores how psychological safety drives innovation and sustainable growth.

Join us as we uncover how organizations like Toyota foster a learning culture where mistakes spark learning and improvement instead of blame and punishment. Learn actionable steps to shift from a blame-based environment to one of trust and improvement based on research and real-world examples.

Key Takeaways:

  • The role of leadership behaviors in shaping a culture where mistakes drive learning.
  • Shingo Principles that align with psychological safety, such as respect, humility, and scientific thinking.
  • Practical strategies to cultivate psychological safety and reduce fear.

Register here

In this interactive two-hour workshop, two organizations will share proven approaches to addressing Operational Excellence strategically. They will focus on how to identify and improve strategic core processes at an enterprise view. We will listen to the “Best of the West” when it comes to making Operational Excellence a strategic differentiator. After each presentation, we will get a chance to discuss key take-a-ways and action items.

Hear from Kaas Tailored and Arizona Public Service as they highlight their world class culture and practices. 

Register here

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Create a Foundation for the Future at the AME Portland 2025 Lean Summit on June 4th & 5th at the Radisson Portland Airport Conference Center! Your registration includes:

  • Three inspiring keynote sessions from industry leaders
  • An option to tour a top-performing facility
  • Half-day workshop options
  • Practitioner presentations showcasing practical applications of principles and concepts
  • Idea Exchange benchmarking session with peers
  • Networking opportunities, including a happy hour on June 4th
  • Meals included (Wed: lunch & reception and Thurs: breakfast & lunch)

AME Member cost: $495 (add $150 to become an AME member)

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In a unique collaboration, The University of Michigan, GE Aerospace, and the Kata community invite you to the first sharing event centered around everyday practice of scientific thinking in workplaces and education.

Practical, everyday scientific thinking is an effective way to navigate unpredictable territory toward challenging goals, and Kata is a popular way to practice and coach it. More info here.

Hear from all sorts of organizations + GE Aerospace + The University of Michigan + the Kata community, to exchange and learn from experiences in how teams are applying and coaching scientific thinking, to help them achieve goals, overcome obstacles, adapt, and innovate.

The event is for businesspersons, healthcare, educators, non-profits, students, and anyone else who sees value in applying a scientific approach and would like to learn more about how teams and organizations are doing it. More event information to come. Join us to hear… see…participate… learn. 

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Join Dirk van Rossum from Helena Industries as Oscar Roche asks him to delve into why they chose to get started with ‘Kata’ and what that looked like and is looking like now (2 plus years in). They’ll then go further into key things that have been learned thus far and their interconnection. As both Dirk and Oscar will literally be between two ‘Getting Started With Work Standards’ mentoring sessions, Dirk will be able to discuss key learnings from participants practice of that routine.

Webinar key discussion items will include:

  • How ‘Work Standards’ came to the surface as being a critical piece of the CI equation.
  • Where Dirk can see/is seeing other TWI skills being pulled in.

Recording link

Do you or your organization struggle with how to leverage Artificial Intelligence? Has fear of the unknown become an obstacle to integration? With something this powerful, education is your best friend. Guest Host, and Lean enthusiast, Jessica Blake will showcase the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence with real-world examples of the successful impact of AI implementations.

Jessica’s got first-hand experience with how AI can streamline your operations, enhance decision-making, and drive innovation in your business. She’s ready to share practical tips and strategies with us on how to integrate AI into our daily work. Join us at the cafe December 19th for an opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and discover ways to supercharge your continuous improvement work using this breakthrough technology.

Agenda:

  • What is AI and how do natural language models work?
  • Tool availability and pricing: Copilot, Chat GPT
  • Prompt engineering
  • Case studies and real life examples
  • Best practice

Recording link