Previous TLF Recordings
November 2023
Presenters:
Hosted by Gary Vansuch at CDOT
Speakers: Joshua Wagner at Arizona DOT and CDOT Innovation Challenge Winners
Open Q&A Forum
March 2023
Presenters:
CDOT -- Gary Vansuch
Arizona ADOT -- Lisa Pounds
Utah DOT -- Patrick Cowley
Minnesota DOT (MnDOT) -- Steven PageÂ
Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) -- Nick Baptista
Pennsylvania DOT (PennDOT) -- Matthew Christy
Oklahoma Transportation Cabinet -- Tara Brown
Louisiana --- Steven Sibley
Maine DOT -- Mary Ann Hayes
Washington State DOT (WSDOT) -- Mustafa Mohamedali Â
Nebraska DOT (this was "Host's Choice", and Gary presented on their behalf)
January 2023
Presenter: Marcia Trope (Government of the State of Iowa)
Presenter: Serena McArthur (Government of the Province of New Brunswick)
Hosted by Gary Vansuch (CDOT)
Producers: Samantha Millison & Rylie WieselerÂ
November 2022
Presenter - Vinny Labella- Arizona Government Transformation Office
Presenters - Patrick Cowley, Winston Inoway, and Lindsay Hansen - Utah Department of Transportation
Hosted By Lisa Pounds - Arizona DOT
Producers - Rylie Wieseler, Stephen Barella & Rebekah RouxÂ
September 2022
Presenter -Â Kelly Backues - Missouri DOT- Innovations Challenge
Presenter - Rachel Kilcoin - Nebraska DOT - Property Acquisition
Host - Gary Vansuch, Colorado DOT - Facilitating the Open Forum
Producers - Stephen Barela & Rebekah Roux - Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Interns
July 2022
Presenter -Â Greg Spradley, Mary Allman & Rebecca Stapleton - DOHR buisness Processes Documented
Presenter - Vincent LaBella & Alan Holcomb - Lean in Government, Leading Lean Transformation
Host - Patrick Cowley, Utah DOT - Facilitating the Open Forum
Producers - Stephen Barela & Rebekah Roux - Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Interns
May 2022
Presenter -Â Amanda Frank & John Romberger - Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT)
Presenter - Todd May - Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT)Â
Presenter - Dean Schroeder - Valparaiso University
Host - Gary Vansuch - Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) - Facilitating the Open Forum
Producers - Kourtnei Osborn, Stephen Barela, Kayley Smiley, Rebekah Roux, & Samantha Millison - Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Interns
January 2022
Presenter - Amanda Gilman-Bogie - Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans)
Presenter - Pauline Valenzuela - California Department of Transportation (CalTrans)Â
Host - Gary Vansuch - Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) - Facilitating the Open Forum
Producers - Anais Garcia and Javier Ramirez - Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)
November 2021
Patrick Cowley, Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) - Facilitating the Panel Discussion with Trisha Ziemianan - Ontario Ministry of Transportation, Canada, Alana Spendlove - UDOT, Laura Meyer - Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), and Gary Vansuch - CDOT
Gary Vansuch, Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) - Facilitating the Open Forum
September 2021
Neal Symmons, National Highways - The Challenges and successful introduction of Lean by a major infrastructure client.
Vincent LaBella & Denise Raum, Arizona DOT - Strategic Initiative: Process Mapping
July 2021
Patrick Cowley and Alana Spendlove, Utah Department of Transportation - The Role of Performance Metrics in Continuous Improvement
Kelly Backues, Missouri Department of Transportation- Innovation ChallengeÂ
May 2021
John Baranzelli from Illinois Central Management Services
Muhammad I Tubbsum from the Government of Saskatchewan
Laura Bensinger from the Michigan Department of Transportation
March 2021
Christine Bezanson, Results WA- Summary of Washington's 9th Annual Lean Transformation ConferenceÂ
Todd May, Indiana Department of Transportation- Developing a Culture of Innovation
January 2021
Kismet Weiss, Arizona Department of Transportation- Leadership Matters: The Arizona Management System
Char McArthur, Idaho Transportation Department- Benchmarking in our Innovation Journey
Patrick Cowley, Utah Department of Transportation- A Culture of Continuous Improvement
Linsey Sousek, Nebraska Department of Transportation- Continuous Improvement at NDOT
Stephen Greenhalgh, Highway England- Lean at Highways England
Gary Vansuch, Colorado Department of Transportation- Lean Everyday Ideas: Spreading Innovation and Success
October 2020
Linsey Sousek, Process Improvement Manager & David L. Jones, Process Improvement Coordinator - Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement at Nebraska Department of Transportation
Nikki Sackman, NDDOT HR Division Director & Molly Herrington, NDDOT Director of Leadership and Learning - Reinventing North Dakota State Government
Scott Bowie, Process Improvement Facilitator & Caryn Gunter, Process Improvement Facilitator - Process Improvement Efforts at New Brunswick's Ministry of Transportation
Check out these resources mentioned during the Forum!
August 2020
Carolyn Morehouse & Sarah Schacher from the Alaska DOT&PF discuss their department's recent reorganizationÂ
Gary Vansuch from the Colorado Department of Transportation discusses their Summer of Spreading Innovation
Check out these resources mentioned during the Forum!
June 2020
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Transport Canada
Our 8th Anniversary Celebration!
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April 2020
Caltrans
Highways England
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February 2020
Utah Department of TransportationÂ
British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and InfrastructureÂ
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October 2019
Ontario's Ministry of Transportation
Mineta Transportation Institute
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August 2019
Florida DOT's Organizational Change ManagementÂ
Nebraska DOT's Operational Excellence - Process Improvement
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June 2019
Wisconsin DOT Innovation Program
CDOT's Office of Process Improvement Interns: What do we do?Â
Transportation Lean Forum 7th year Anniversary
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April 2019
Minnesota Office of Continuous Improvement Human-centered Design
Using Design Thinking to Create One Stone's Clutch App
Iowa DOT Organizational Performance Management
Minnesota DOT's Document Return Workflow Improvement
February 2019
Utah DOT Communicating Innovation
Change Management at CDOT
Update of Vermont Project Closure
Introduction to the New Lean Interchange
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December 2018
Idaho Transportation Department's Leadership Summit 2018
Georgia DOT Area Manager Training
Colorado DOT presenting on FHWA's Everyday Counts
October 2018
PennDOT Organizational Climate Survey
Utah Governor's Office of Management and Budget - Theory of Constraints
August 2018
Ohio DOT - Lean Ohio
Maryland DOT - Culture of Innovation
June 2018
Swedish Transportation Administration - Applying CI Principles to Produce Change
CDOT - LEAN at CDOT, a Daily Discipline
April 2018
Minnesota DOT - Applying CI Principles to Produce Change
Illinois DOT - Continuous Improvement Journey
February 2018
British Columbia Ministry of Transportation - Innovating Succession Management and Empowering Through Lean
Indiana DOT - Lean Projects & Training for INDOT
December 2017
Nigel Blampied - TRB Synthesis Announcement
Stephen Greenhalgh - Highways England Maturity Assessment
Jim Dickson - Missouri Innovation Challenge
Johan Gietman and Wiebe Nijdam - The Netherlands Lean Journey
October 2017
Kismet A. Weiss - ADOT's Management System: Lean
Troy Tusup, CALTRANS - Innovative Business Systems
August 2017
Harsh Zadoo - Texas Department of Transportation
Amber Thelen - Michigan Department of Transportation
Travis Haberman - Nebraska Department of Transportation
June 2017
Joe Raash - Minnesota
Annie Kitch - Colorado
Marcia Tope - Iowa
April 2017
Russell Burgess - Washington Department of Transportation
Richard Mallory - American Society for Quality
February 2017
Paul Keegan - Vermont Agency of Transportation
Pam May - Deleware Department of Transportation
Michael Shull - Lean Interchange
December 2016
Charlene McArthur & Ashley Orme - Idaho Transportation Department, A Continuous Improvement Journey
Ray Pilon - Saskatchewan Minestry of Highways & Infrastructure
Deanna Belden & Harsh Zadoo - SCOPM Business Meeting Organizational Excellence Task Force Update
October 2016
John Baranzelli - Office of Rapid Results - State of Illinois - Central Management Services
Jason Hallett, Dawn Vincent- Dixon, & Greg Bryden - Lean Six Sigma tools & principles used during their org. realignment - New Brunswick Department of Transportation and Infreastructure
Molly Bly & Chavirat Burapadecha - Lean Interchange - Colorado Department of Transportation - Office of Process Improvement
AASHTO - SCOPM Organizational Excellence Task Force
Septemeber 2016
Heather Franek - Arizona DOT - Lean Transformation
Karen Miller - AASHTO SCOPM - Organizational Excellence Task Force
Paul Sparano - Pennsylvania DOT - Bureau of Innovations
January 2016
Julie Dunning - California DOT
Charlene McArthur - Idaho DOT
November 2015
Vermont Agency of Transportation - Implementing Lean Process Improvement
TxDOT Lean 6-Sigma Value Proposition - Survey Report Out
September 2015
Lean in the Netherlands - Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment
Lean British Columbia - Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
AASHTO Standing Committee on Performance Management (SCOPM) Organizational Excellence (OE) Task Force
July 2015
Tennessee - The LEAN Experience
Wisconsin - Using Lean Six Sigma & Kepner-Tregoe
Missouri - Innovations Challenge
May 2015
Nevada - "Grassroots" Process Improvement
January 2015
Lean of Transport Canada
Change Management at CDOT
October 2014
Lean at the DOT in New Hampshire
Metrics and Measurement
Everyday Ideas
August 2014
Lean at the DOT in New Bruswick
Lean at ConnDOT
May 2014
Lean at the Minnesota DOT
Process improvement interns: what do they do anyways?
February 2014
Presentation about Lean process improvement at the Ohio Department of Transportation (Daveen Goodman)
Quick update on the Consortium for Lean in State/Provincial Governments (Anna Karousis) -- our Forum is a DOT/MOT-focused "spin-off" of the Consortium
Efforts of the ASQ Government Division to support the Forum and the Consortium (Rich Malloy, John Baranzelli) -- For instance, the Division is putting articles about Lean in state/provincial government into Division's newsletter
The Google Site for the Forum for Lean process improvement in governmental Highways /Transportation organizations (Gary Vansuch)
Hard and Soft Dollar calculations for ROI on Lean / Six Sigma Project -- Faith McMillian, North Carolina DOT
December 2013
Presentation about Lean process improvement at the Ohio Department of Transportation (Daveen Goodman)
Quick update on the Consortium for Lean in State/Provincial Governments (Anna Karousis) -- our Forum is a DOT/MOT-focused "spin-off" of the Consortium
Efforts of the ASQ Government Division to support the Forum and the Consortium (Rich Malloy, John Baranzelli) -- For instance, the Division is putting articles about Lean in state/provincial government into Division's newsletter
The Google Site for the Forum for Lean process improvement in governmental Highways /Transportation organizations (Gary Vansuch)
Hard and Soft Dollar calculations for ROI on Lean / Six Sigma Project -- Faith McMillian, North Carolina DOT
September 2013
Derek Drysdale & Paul Reiser - Highways Agency (HA) in England - HA Lean Journey