Michael Ballé, Institut Lean France

Company : Institut Lean France
Role : Gemba coach

Author and Speaker, Michael is associate researcher at Telecom ParisTech, and holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne in Social Sciences and Knowledge Sciences. He has written several books and articles about the links between knowledge and management and more recently, co-authored two business novels published by the Lean Enterprise Institute, one about lean turnaround, “The Gold Mine” and one about lean transformation, “The Lean Manager”. He was awarded the Shingo Prize for both of them. More recently, he published “The Lean Management” with Godefroy Beauvallet. Michael is co-founder of the Projet Lean Entreprise and the Institut Lean France.