Central Coast Lean Summit 2024

Working Better Together

Thurs/Fri, April 18-19, 2024

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Here is what you’ll get at this year’s Central Coast Lean Summit:

1. Keynote, lean thought leader, Jim Benson will lead us through his “Right Environment” approach detailed in his new book The Collaboration Equation that provides a foundational roadmap to addressing the underlying reasons why many improvement initiatives (and organizations) struggle:

   1. The Current State - Most companies embarking on agile or lean transformations get stuck. The initiatives falter as the existing culture lacks the right environment to sustain the new practices. 

   2. The Future State - But imagine if your organization had a culture primed for agile and lean to truly take root - an environment where every professional has the information, abilities and confidence to improve continuously. 

   3. The Problem Statement - What if you could finally break through and cultivate a "right environment" for agile and lean to flourish long-term? 

   4. The Countermeasure – Building the right environment is the answer.  The proven "Collaboration Equation" methodology provides a comprehensive system for setting the cultural foundations to anchor agile and lean ways of working.

   5. Leveraging Strengths - Drawn from 25 years of experience documented in his book, The Collaboration Equation equips companies with practices for nurturing environments of trust, transparency and teamwork. 

   6. The Result - Stop spinning your wheels with agile/lean transformations that fizzle out. Attend this year’s Summit to unlock your organization's path to make continuous improvement stick.

[See a breakdown of Jim’s parts of the Summit – Day 1 and Deeper Dive Workshop - Day 2 here…]

1. Proven Summit Format – Day 1:  Jim’s work is embedded in our engaging Summit hybrid format where we bring together experts and the people and organizations doing the work. This is our annual infusion of new thinking and collaboration.  

2. Deeper Dive Workshop – Day 2:  If you want to go deeper into what a right environment might look like in your organization, sign up for the Workshop on Friday.  

3. Lean Coaching Cafe – Day 1:  Running concurrently during the Summit, you can step out and step into our Lean Coaching Café.  Chat or listen with this year’s Lead Coach, Christian Wandeler – lean expert and PhD in Organizational Psychology.

4. Online Engagement – Both Days:  We believe hybrid is the future of work and we are practicing to be good at it.  We have lean expert, Chris Ferrier, who will be our Zoom Host and manage our online Whova interface and Miro Board.

5. Interactive Liberating Structures – Both Days:  We will be using a little bit of structure to unleash a storm of creativity and engagement throughout the Summit. 

6. Top Ten Best Ideas Countdown – Day 1:  Crowdsource the Top Ten Best Ideas generated by our day of working and learning together. 

7. Breakfast and Lunch - Both Days:  We want you to have more time to connect with other lean community members. 

8. Social Networking Reception – Day 1:  Unwind, debrief, connect and reflect with your new (and old) lean friends. We value and work to maintain our people-to-people connections.

Overall, expect one of the best regional lean conference experiences in the world!  This is our 14th year of using lean to conference lean.  Join us April 18 and 19, 2024 in San Luis Obispo as we Work Better Together!

 

Cheers,  Eric O and the Summit Team