Lean Book Discussion Group--How’s the Culture in Your Kingdom? by Dan Cockerell

WHAT ARE WE READING?

"How’s the Culture in Your Kingdom?" by Dan Cockerell.

How's the Culture in Your Kingdom? explains how to lead yourself and your team or organization by using relevant stories and practical examples from Dan Cockerell’s 26-year Disney leadership journey.

Dan Cockerell started his Disney journey as a parking attendant. Over the next 26 years and 19 different jobs, he became the vice president of the biggest theme park in the world, The Magic Kingdom Park. During the course of his Disney career, Dan learned many life and leadership lessons and teaches those learnings within How's the Culture in Your Kingdom? Within this book, Dan explains how to lead yourself and how to lead your team and organization by using relevant stories and practical examples from his 26-year Disney leadership journey. How's the Culture in Your Kingdom? helps prepare leaders to lead their team by teaching them how to:

• Surround themselves with the right people
• Build trusting relationships
• Set clear expectations
• And provide regular feedback, positive and critical

PRE-WORK 

Please read the whole book before the discussion session.

DISCUSSION LEADER

Melissa Sherman,
Sr Quality Improvement Consultant,
Consumers Energy

Melissa has worked in the utility industry for over 27 years, both for an Investor Owned and Cooperative, gaining experience in Electric and Gas Distribution Engineering, Business Support for Pumped Storage, River Hydro and Renewable Generation, Online Scheduling for Fossil Generation, and Enterprise Change.

Throughout her career, Melissa has instituted lean methodology while embedding change management methodology.  From scheduling to warehouse redesigns, to value stream analysis. Melissa analyzes and measures the effectiveness of existing business processes and develops sustainable, repeatable, and quantifiable business process improvements. She analyzes data to drive problem solving, root cause analysis and functional area process improvement. Responsible for delivering significant results in Company Breakthrough Objectives.

She is passionate about leading others on their continuous improvement/lean and change management journey.  She enjoys being able to share her love for teaching/coaching others and seeing the “ah ha” moments when someone truly understands the methodologies. It is through breaking down those methodologies in terms they understand that they can then tackle those big problems.

Melissa has also taught higher education since 2008 both in-seat and on-line in management, entrepreneurship and engineering disciplines, relating a lot of her teaching to the utility industry.

Melissa holds a Bachelors in Industrial Engineering Technology, a Master’s in Leadership Studies from Baker College, along with a Graduate Certificate in Leadership Strategies from Davenport University.  She also holds an Associates Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and is certified in Change Management through Acuity Institute.

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