Catherine Chabiron, Institut Lean France

Catherine Chabiron is the former Director of IS Governance at Faurecia, a major French industrial group. For 8 years, she has worked at the heart of the Lean transformation of Faurecia’s IS department.   Join Catherine’s masterclass “Lean and Information Systems in today’s large corporations – what does it imply and how to manage it?” on 7 October 2015 to learn from her unique experience: The IS department of a lean corporation, sooner or later, will have to answer the question of how to contribute to the company’s overall Lean approach. This...

Marie-Pia Ignace, Institut Lean France

Biography: Marie-Pia Ignace is highly experienced in managing large operations in the service industry. She started her career as a station master at the French railway company. Twelve years later, she was in charge of a business unit at Atos Origin, managing 2,800 persons distributed over 8 call centers. She launched one of the first French online banks. Subsequently, she built and deployed the first Lean program at BNP Paribas. Since then, she has conceived and deployed Lean management programs for other major European companies, engaging more than 4,000 people in IT,...

Michael Ballé, Institut Lean France

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”...

Rasmus Strand, Fujitsu Sweden

Rasmus is a Fujitsu Lean Academy Gold-level accredited Lean Implementer working with Fujitsu Sweden. He has worked with several large implementation projects with Fujitsu Sweden, helping to foster the idea of continuous improvement with the corporate structure.

Nicolas Stampf, BP2I

Nicolas Stampf works with BP2I, a joint venture of IBM and BNP Paribas. He is a lean coach in IT Operations with a developing interest in creating respectful change in organizations using strength-based principles. He has mostly facilitated transversal kaizen workshops (business-developers-operations) where he helped teams (re)communicate and thereby solve the problems that prevented the whole process from functioning properly. Follow Nicolas on Twitter.