Gwendolyn Galsworth Ph.D., president/founder of Visual Thinking Inc., Visual Thinking Europe, and the Visual-Lean® Institute. is a widely recognized workplace visuality and visual management expert. Dr. Galsworth has single-handedly defined visual thinking principles and practices and refined them into a coherent system of transformation. Her laboratory are client companies that achieve operational excellence and sustainable results through her visual workplace technologies ... including high-volume/low-mix, low-volume/high-mix, and continuous flow manufacturing plus healthcare, offices, and military depots. Clients include Lockheed-Martin, Hamilton Standard, Pratt & Whitney, Hitchcock Industries, Royal Nooteboom Trailers/Holland, Trailmobile/Canada, Parker Denison, Harris Corp., Brandt/Canada, Seton Name Plate, Rolls-Royce/UK, TVS Sundaram Clayton/India, Crompton Greaves/India, Sears Home Services, United Electric Controls, and Wilson Transformers/Australia.The Visual-Lean® Institute trains and certifies in-house instructors and external consultants in any/all nine visual workplace technologies (below) so they can help their companies—or clients—achieve key bottom-line and cultural outcomes. 1. The Ten-Doorways: Creating a Workforce of Visual Thinkers 2. The Visual Workplace Site Assessment 3. Work That Makes Sense: Operator-Led Visuality 4. Management by Sight: Visual Displays & Visual Scheduling 5. ScoreBoarding: Visual Problem-Solving 6. Visual Metrics: Measures That Monitor/Measures That Drive 7. Visual Leadership: OSIT Template, X-Type Matrix & the War Room 8. The Visual Machine®: Let Your Equipment Speak 9. Perfect Quality Through Mistake-Proofing (poka-yoke)Dr. Galsworth is a Shingo Institute Faculty Fellow and author of many books: • Visual Workplace-Visual Thinking/Shingo Award (2nd edition) • Work That Makes Sense/Shingo Award (2nd edition) • Visual Systems: Harnessing the Power of a Visual Workplace • Smart Simple Design • Visual Workplace-Visual Order Handbook • Visual Workplace-Visual Order Instructor GuideDr. Galsworth also created the online training system, “Work That Makes Sense,” with 13 operator modules and over 1000 visual solutions (English, Spanish, Polish). She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University and has led study missions to some of the world’s finest companies, including in Japan. She is a frequent keynote speaker. When not on client site or teaching at the Institute, she can be found hiking, ballroom dancing or working on her next book. See Wikipedia for more.