ANN KOOPMANN-SCHMIDT
Head of Quality, Bombardier
Frontline Leadership Development – How to Help your People find their Leadership Identity
OVERVIEW
To foster and maintain a successful LEAN culture, it is important that your team leads understand their value as leaders and how they can lead efficient teams through confidence, authenticity and trust. Your team leads are right at the centre of where the LEAN magic happens. This is leadership at its core. By developing the leadership capabilities of your frontline leads, a sustainable LEAN culture can be achieved.
This session is for everyone who manages team leads and managers, but also anyone who is interested to learn more about building your leadership identity and brand.
WHAT ATTENDEES WILL LEARN
This session will give you some suggestions on how to strengthen and develop your frontline leaders.
- Strengthen the leadership skills of your team leaders and managers
- Identify leadership strengths and build on them to develop own leadership brand
- Empower your frontline leaders to influence and motivate
- Foster Lean culture through leadership based on trust and respect
This session is for everyone who manages team leads and managers, but also anyone who is interested to learn more about building your leadership identity and brand.
BIO
Anne Koopmann-Schmidt started with Bombardier Transport in Berlin, Germany as a Global Graduate Trainee and moved to Australia in 2012 as a Methods Engineer. Her understanding and insights into lean manufacturing processes, strong people management skills, track record in cost reduction, business acumen, problem solving and implementation of quality excellence, led her to her current role as Head of Quality and LEAN Australia.
Anne is proving to be an integral part of the Bombardier leadership team. Her achievements at Dandenong include savings of over $2.4 million, production hour savings of 6000 hours on a key light rail project and successfully reduced manufacturing throughput time by 20% on rolling stock vehicles. Ann was awarded Victorian Young Manufacturer of the Year in 2017.
FORMAT
Practitioner Presentation
TOPICS
Lean Leadership, People and Culture