Join us for a virtual MLC Lean coffee chat!
Virtual | Free For Members | 8:30am - 9:30am
Introduction to Risk Management
Join us to review fundamental concepts of risk and risk management, and see how they can be applied in Lean management and process improvement efforts. Be ready to discuss an approach to identifying, analyzing, and monitoring risks that aligns with DMAIC so that process improvement projects can stay on target and meet their success criteria.
Presenter:
Katie Mankins
Director, Process Management, UC Santa Barbara
Katie Mankins joined UC Santa Barbara in 2015 with over 25 years of management and technical experience in various industries. She sees her role as Director for Process Management in the Office of the CIO as an opportunity to solve business problems, craft realistic solutions and deliver successful outcomes to a wide variety of stakeholders across campus. She is well-versed in the practices that enable projects to deliver promised customer value, and she has rich and deep expertise in business process improvement, project, program and portfolio management. She received her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification in March 2019 and her Black Belt certification in June 2023. Katie is an instructor for White Belt, Yellow Belt, Practical Problem Solving, and Process Mapping training at UCSB, and she coaches and mentors Lean Six Sigma Green Belt students. Her Lean Six Sigma experiences have reinforced her love of engaging people from a cross section of backgrounds to find common goals, reduce administrative hassle, and improve the way we do work on campus.
Connect, Share, and Collaborate with your MLC network
What is a Lean Coffee Chat?
It's an open atmosphere to discuss all things Lean, share professional challenges people are experiencing in their Lean journey, and network with like-minded peers.
Pros to attending a coffee chat:
- Leverage our MLC membership knowledge base
- Focus on implementation of Lean tools
- Opportunity to network
- Share best practices
- Stay connected with other MLC members
Non-MLC members welcome too.
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At the MLC, we do our best to be inclusive at every level of experience, whether it’s a conference, Gemba walk or any other of our membership activities.
An individual or organizational membership gives you a year’s worth of great Lean learning and networking at low- or no-cost!
