Category: COE Seminars

In a July 2025 COE webinar, Mark Reich explored how to use hoshin kanri to develop strategy, align teams, grow leaders, and innovate your enterprise. Drawing from decades of experience working at Toyota and coaching lean leaders across industries, Mark shared insights on what sets hoshin kanri apart from traditional strategy and what key practices and leader behaviors create high performance and sustainable results. In this blog, Mark continues the conversation, tackling unanswered audience questions from the webinar Q&A.

In a June 2025 COE webinar, data and technology leader Jim Perry explored prompt engineering, agentic AI, and the new AI skillsets for modern work. Through live and interactive demonstrations, Jim guided attendees through various prompt frameworks and techniques for leveraging AI tools more effectively. In this blog, Jim continues the conversation, tackling unanswered audience questions from the webinar Q&A.

In a March 2025 COE webinar, Jason and Michelle Risser explored effective hoshin planning. Using real-world examples from Michelle’s business, the duo demonstrated the value of hoshin and offered strategies for asking the right questions, defining true north, and maintaining accountability. In this blog, Jason continues the conversation with a deep dive into an unanswered question from the audience Q&A: “How do you use hoshin to drive changes in associate metrics? It seems like what they’re measured on doesn’t align with strategic goals.”

Jessica Malagisi, Shauna Durant, & Kevin Yania, from Grange Insurance, were recently featured in COE's webinar series. Their session called "Using a Continuous Improvement Mindset to Reimagine the Office & Hybrid Culture" was so popular that we asked them to address some of the unanswered questions. Here's a continuation of that session's discussion.

The business world is more diverse than ever. This provides us with unique opportunities as well as challenges. If you're able to understand psychology of implicit bias, you'll be able to connect, communicate, and persuade at a higher level, as well as improve your ability to make high-level, and fair, decisions.