WEBINAR - KEYNOTE
How to Keep Your Gemba Walks Fresh and Meaningful
Event Overview
Keep your gemba walks fresh & meaningful – engage your people
Getting started with gemba walks isn’t hard, but maintaining their effectiveness, engagement, and impact is another story. Too often, leaders fall into the trap of turning every walk into a “waste walk.” While identifying waste is valuable, that’s only a fraction of what’s possible.
In this one-hour session, we’ll explore how to:
- Keep your walks engaging—for you and your team
- Make each walk a learning experience, not a routine
- Use walks to actually drive performance improvement
We’ll also touch on virtual gemba walks—how they differ from a physical walk. And how outside executives can conduct site visits that elevate improvement maturity.
Join us to re-energize your gemba walks and deepen their impact.
What Attendees Will Learn
- Avoid the waste walk trap
- Keep your walks engaging
- Stop letting assumptions inhibit your abilities to see the actual reality
- Drive more performance improvements
Who Should Attend
- Continuous improvement practitioners
- Senior leaders
- First line supervisors
- Anyone with an interest in gemba walks
Presenter
MICHAEL BREMER, VP AME Excellence Award Council (volunteer)
Author “How to Do a Gemba Walk” and “Learn to See the Invisible”
Michael Bremer is an author, semi-retired from business since 2018. He has collected a variety of experiences over the years, including holding the positions of director of productivity improvement and director of information systems for Beatrice Foods. He is a past chief financial officer and Board member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). He was also president of the Cumberland Group, a global consulting company in Chicago, for 28 years. Michael served as adjunct faculty for the University of Chicago’s Graham School for a 15-year period and as a senior mentor at a new business start-up incubator focused on manufacturing (mHub Chicago). Michael currently leads AME’s Excellence Award activities.
Other registration information
AME Australia is a not-for-profit association committed to supporting the manufacturing and operations community. We deliver high-quality, low-cost events designed to promote continuous improvement and operational excellence.
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