Lean product development champions need someone in their corner.

Are you charged with getting your R & D teams to adopt lean product development? Do you need help to get them to see the value of lean thinking, break through resistance, or help your sponsors be the leaders you need them to be? Do you need to generate pull for lean product development so that the program makes the sustainable culture changes that lead to long term results?

The Lean Product Development Champions Mentor Program provides just-in-time access to my assistance when you need it.

Here are some ways that past mentorees have used the service:

• You need to develop a charter for a lean product development program, including specific objectives and measures, with an implementation roadmap.
• You need help identifying and managing the key stakeholders who will make or break your lean product development implementation.
• You want just-in-time training on the specific aspects of lean product development that will help you and your team the most.
• You would like to know how other companies have handled similar implementation challenges.
• You want to become an effective sponsor for a lean product development program - among all the other things that you need to do.
• You need to create a plan to get a mission-critical development program back on target.

Lean Product Development Champions Mentor Program

• One scheduled phone call to discuss our objectives for working together.
• Unlimited access to Katherine via email and phone, with 24 hour response time, for six months for the named individual.
• There will be no phone expenses or other charges added to the bill - the only thing extra you have to pay is your own long distance for the call.
• Invitations to special events for LPD Champions only.
• 20% discount on all web classes, events and products.

The "Waste Free" Guarantee:

Our refund policy is as lean as it gets: if any of our products or services don't meet your expectations, we will refund your money.

How to Engage:

We accept payment for the Lean Product Development Champions Mentor Program via all major credit cards.

Once you have purchased the program, we will contact you within 24 hours to set up an initial meeting to explain the program and set some objectives for our work together.

If you have an urgent issue and would like to see if Katherine is available today, please call us at (206) 274-6179.

Lean PD Champions Mentor Program   $2945

Customized Coaching Programs
for Individuals and Teams

Like mentoring, coaching is a way to gain access to our expertise without the commitment of a large consulting project. However, it is more focused towards meeting specific measurable objectives. We first work together to develop an action plan, and then focus our coaching sessions on providing the assistance needed to complete the actions and meet the objectives.

In a coaching engagement, the individual or team have regular telephone or web conference meetings with Katherine in addition to unlimited access via phone and email for the duration of the engagement.

Typical objectives for a coaching engagement include things like:

• Gain organizational support for a program to increase strategic latitude.
• Develop a plan to deploy a new strategy that will make it more likely to succeed in execution.
• Use set-based decision-making to make critical decisions for a specific program.
• Grow a high potential engineer into a future company leader.
• Assist a retiring technical expert with the process of transferring critical technical knowledge to a new generation of engineers.
• Prepare a proposal for senior leaders that demonstrates the potential for substantial ROI from product development improvement efforts

After we have developed objectives, I will give you a quote for the program in the form of a simple proposal that includes our joint accountabilities for meeting the objectives.