Justin works at an iconic brand consumer products company.  He held a Corporate Lean Strategy SME position.  Justin wanted to participate in Career Kaizen’s intense work/study program because he felt his career progress stalled.  Simultaneously, he also was looking outside the company at new opportunities.  Justin is a top 5% performer so it wasn’t as …Read More

We talked recently with the HR manager of one of our clients, to see how the CareerKaizen work product matched his previous experience with other career development concept and methods. What blew me away and impressed me so much about CareerKaizen is the novel concept that an employee could dedicate that kind of time and …Read More

Randy, Lean HealthCare Practitioner To most recruiters, I was considered a horse of a very different color – and not in a good way. After eighteen years as a design engineer and project manager with a highly recognized lean company, I made a decision to follow a calling.  I wanted to help kids as a …Read More

I had three degrees, including an MBA, but didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Looking back now I know that I was going down these difficult and expensive roads to try to find the answer to the dissatisfaction I had in my career life.  As an operations manager for an …Read More

I was pretty frustrated with the state of my career before meeting Jim Baran. I had actually started a sort of do-it-yourself Career Kaizen approach of my own to try and drill down to some kind of solution to my seemingly invisible problems. I had always been praised for my work but time and time …Read More

My change of perspective is fundamental but then again, to PDCA myself was revolutionary.  The pack and I are now separated… And while I was never miserable with my job or super frustrated with my career, I had questions.  At different times situations at work would change and I would be left wondering if I …Read More