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Coaching Leaders

The leader's most important job is to create an open and effective problem-solving and learning environment. During this experiential session, participants will explore some common influences that drive typical, more comfortable behaviors that limit leaders of problem solving, and consider some intentional, personal practices to shift limiting habits to habits that better engage the organization in meaningful PDCA thinking.

Margie Hagene

Margie Hagene has over 20 years experience helping executives and senior leaders develop new skills for leading in a lean environment as their roles and responsibilities change. For 18 years, Hagene was a global internal consultant for Ford Motor Company at all levels within the organization, from team leaders to the COO, in Product Development, Design, and Manufacturing.  

Since exiting Ford, Hagene has worked in a variety of service and manufacturing industries helping organizations effectively blend the social and technical elements in complex systems to ensure the sustainability of their lean transformation. Hagene is also active with university programs in areas of leadership development, organizational learning, and lean thinking. Hagene holds a bachelor’s degree from Butler University and a master’s from Indiana University.

Jim Luckman

Jim Luckman has had the unique experience of leading three separate lean transformations, as a Plant Manager, as a Director of a Research and Development Center, and as a CEO of a small start-up company. Jim is the Past President and CEO of iPower Technologies, a company serving the distributed generation market of electrical power. Luckman has worked in the auto industry for 34 years working at Delphi Automotive (formerly part of General Motors). Jim current efforts include leadership coaching, application of lean in R&D and application of lean to software development. He currently coaches companies interested in company-wide lean transformation. Jim is a partner in the Lean Transformations Group.