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Bruce Schirmer, MD, has been on faculty at the University of Virginia since 1985 and serves as the Stephen H. Watts Professor of Surgery, the vice chair of the Department of Surgery, the division chief of general surgery and director of the surgery nutrition support service. Previously, he was the program director of surgery for 17 years. Schirmer has been a director of the American Board of Surgery, and is a past-president of the Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), the Society of Clinical Surgery, the Fellowship Council, the SAGES Foundation, and the AHPBA Foundation. In addition, he was the vice president of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and the founding president of the ACS Bariatric Surgery Centers Network Committee. Schirmer is a governor to the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and serves as an editorial board member of six surgical journals.

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Dr. Anthony Howard, often referred to as the 'CEO Whisperer', is a philosopher, writer, entrepreneur, and acclaimed business mentor with twenty years of global experience. As a guide for CEOs across business, government, and civil society, he facilitates personal and organisational transformations, fostering a shift from instrumental values to virtue and transcendental values.

Anthony is the CEO & Founder of both The Confidere Group, where he leads a team of seasoned executives who provide independent counsel to Chief Executives in large publicly traded companies, private organisations, and associations, and The Socratic Leader Academy, which is on a quest to foster new models of leadership that promote the conditions for a new Renaissance.

He has engaged in reflective conversations with hundreds of leaders and influencers across various sectors over two decades. These dialogues have enriched his global perspective and deepened his insights on leadership, and the environments in which leaders operate, equipping him to guide his clients towards sustained exceptional performance.

Drawing from his extensive coaching, consulting, and dialogues with leaders worldwide, Anthony's writings and speeches cover a variety of domains, primarily focused on leadership, trends, and navigating change in the current era. His book, Humanise—why human-centered-leadership is the key to the 21st century, is a direct outcome of these global leadership conversations. His groundbreaking PhD research, which introduced a new model known as Personalist Leadership, significantly amplified his influence in the field. Currently, Anthony continues his academic research as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Australia).

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Mark Rosenthal has been learning on the front lines of continuous improvement, quality improvement, and leader development in manufacturing, engineering, the service sector, and health care, for over three decades.

His baseline background and training experience was with Toyota-trained teachers in the USA and Japan. Though he has worked with a wide spectrum of organizations ranging from strategic projects for major global corporations, coaching and training small and medium sized businesses, and coaching individual business owners, he has increasingly been focusing on learning more about the process of leadership itself.

Before joining the private sector, Mark spent time as a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Army managing heavy equipment maintenance and logistics operations in Korea, the U.S., and Germany (as well as questionable activities such as jumping out of perfectly serviceable aircraft in flight).

Mark is a well-known blogger with his "The Lean Thinker" website, and a co-founder of Kata School Cascadia.

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Shaun Barker has been the assistant executive director for the Shingo Institute since 2001 where he is responsible for such organizational operations as finance, human resources, information technology, marketing, and development. He is also responsible for the assessment value stream and its pool of approximately 160 examiners from industries around the world. He has personally participated in dozens of comprehensive site assessment visits to business and government organizations worldwide that have challenged for the Shingo Prize. Mr. Barker participates in the development of Shingo educational offerings and is a contributor to both the world-renowned Shingo Model and the Shingo Prize Application Guidelines - the international standard of operational excellence. He was a key participant in the creation of a Lean certification program sponsored by AME, SME, and the Shingo Institute. Mr. Barker is an engaging speaker and instructor for the Shingo Institute and trains companies on the Shingo Model and the Shingo Guiding Principles, teaching how to apply principle-based leadership to their own operations and to use assessment tools to foster continuous improvement within their organizations. As a result of his expertise, Mr. Barker has delivered presentations and workshops to professionals in various parts of the world including the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, and Europe. Mr. Barker's professional industry background in retail management operations included 14 years of work with Sav-On Drugs, Wal-Mart, and Dollar General. He has experience with profit and loss responsibility for multi-million dollar operations in high growth environments. Mr. Barker earned a bachelor's degree in marketing with a minor in economics from Utah State University and an MBA with an emphasis in entrepreneurship.

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Dr. Stephen Beeson, founder and CEO of Practicing Excellence, is a nationally recognized speaker, physician, and author whose life mission is to coach and develop clinicians to be their best.  Dr. Beeson started his career as a family medicine physician with the Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego in 1994. During his career, Dr. Beeson was tasked to coach, develop and engage clinicians to help improve both the clinician and patient experience.  Inspired to help clinicians across the nation become their best, Dr. Beeson founded Practicing Excellence. The company partners with health systems and medical groups to deliver coordinated skill-building programs that create measurable results in well-being, patient experience, and leadership effectiveness. Under Dr. Beeson’s leadership, Practicing Excellence launched the Clinician Experience Project (CEP) to serve physicians, advanced practice providers (APPs), and clinical leaders, and the Nursing Experience Project (NEP) to help nurses and nurse leaders. Practicing Excellence serves a growing community of organizations dedicated to developing their people and impact care for patients and care teams, alike.

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Dr. Fife completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas followed by a two-year Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine at Duke University. Until 2013 she was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston where she initiated the Memorial Hermann Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and the Lymphedema Center. She is now a Professor of Geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She serves as the Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, Inc., a health information technology company, and the Executive Director of the U.S. Wound Registry, a non-profit organization recognized by CMS as a qualified clinical data registry. The USWR develops wound relevant quality measures and helps wound care practitioners meet the requirements of Medicare’s Quality Payment Program. Past and present board activities include the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders, the American Academy of Wound Management, the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and the American Professional Wound Care Association. She is the clinical editor of Today’s Wound Clinic and has authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters as well as editing 3 textbooks (the Textbook of Chronic Wound Care, Wound Care Practice, and Women and Pressure: Diving and Flying.). Her research contributions include the development of real time lymphatic imaging with Dr. Eva Sevick using near infrared technology, and more recently, the use of real-world data for comparative effectiveness studies to understand what works best for patients with chronic wounds and ulcers.

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Keith Ingels is the Raymond Lean Management manager of solutions and support centers for The Raymond Corporation. He has worked with lean management principles for more than 20 years, throughout the Toyota Material Handling network. At Toyota, he studied under internationally known TPS mentors in Japan and Europe, led his team to be one of the first Toyota ASEC (After Sales Service Evaluation Certification) certified facilities in the U.S. and has presented internationally at Global Toyota Summits in North America, Japan and Australia. During his time at Raymond, he has trained and coached more than 500 associates in lean management, developed better methods for installing and maintaining Raymond equipment, and has led lean management projects in a variety of areas, including IT, Sales, Financial Services, Rental, Parts, Service and Logistics. Ingels has his MBA in management from Virginia Tech.

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Elisabeth Swan has consulted in the business process performance industry for over 30 years. She advises local nonprofits and guides Fortune 100 companies through Lean Transformations and improvement efforts generating millions in savings. She is the co-designer and lead Instructor for the Lean Six Sigma Leadership Course at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and designs and runs Lean Six Sigma courses at UC Davis and the University of Denver. She is a co-founder of the Just-in-Time Café learning nexus, and co-host of the “Just-in-Time Café” podcast. Her latest book is, Picture Yourself a Leader: Illustrated Micro-Lessons for Navigating Change, and she also co-wrote the Problem Solver’s Toolkit: A Surprisingly Simple Guide to Your Lean Six Sigma Journey.

 https://elisabethswan.com/

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Doug Lemov is the author of the international bestseller Teach Like a Champion--now in its 3.0 version--and The Coach's Guide to Teaching. He is the co-author, with TLAC colleagues, of Practice Perfect, Reading Reconsidered, Teaching in the Online Classroom, and Reconnect. In addition to his work studying teachers, he would like you to believe that he is the front man in the nation’s foremost Kenny G cover band. His favorite words are "Huzzah" and "Yam."

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Dr. Timothy Chen, family medicine expert, is the Medical Director at BlueHealth Baptist in Madison, Mississippi. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Engineering from Mississippi State University and later attended the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in Jackson. For his residency training, he attended the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Chen is proudly affiliated with the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He also earned a Board Certification from the University of Arizona in Integrative Medicine.  Dr. Chen’s research interests include health and wellness, evidence-based medicine and population health and policy. He’s taken his expertise online with his YouTube channel named “Common Sense Medicine,” in effort to make complex medical knowledge more understandable to everyone. He is married with five kids.

Lee Greer, M.D., serves as Corporate Medical Director for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi, A Mutual Insurance Company. Dr. Greer holds an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University, a medical degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center and a Master of Business Administration degree from Yale University. He is certified with the American Board of Family Medicine with a Certificate of Added Qualification – Geriatric Medicine. In his role as Corporate Medical Director, Dr. Greer acts as a liaison between Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi and the Provider community and supports the development and monitoring of the Company’s Quality Management programs to include quality of care best practices. He also provides physician expertise in Company corporate and strategic initiatives and assignments. Dr. Greer serves on the Board of Directors for the Alzheimer’s Association – Mississippi Chapter, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Mississippi Colorectal Roundtable. He has previously served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Information and Quality Healthcare and the Chairman of the Physician Leadership Committee for the Mississippi Hospital Association. Dr. Greer is a Member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Mississippi State Medical Association and the American Geriatrics Society. Dr. Greer is married to Reena Greer. They have one daughter.

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