Sandrine Olivencia

Sandrine Olivencia is a lean IT coach specializing in improving the performance of IT organizations. She has coached dozens of teams (software and operations) in using the Obeya method to deliver high quality products in time and budget, in both co-located and distributed contexts. She also coaches managers and CIOs in using Obeya to manage their whole department, and develop collaboration and customer-focused teams. Sandrine has been teaching and practicing the obeya project management method for 6 years. She has been teaching obeya at Centrale Marseille, ESIEE and...

Marie-Pia Ignace, Institut Lean France

Biography: Marie-Pia Ignace is highly experienced in managing large operations in the service industry. She started her career as a station master at the French railway company. Twelve years later, she was in charge of a business unit at Atos Origin, managing 2,800 persons distributed over 8 call centers. She launched one of the first French online banks. Subsequently, she built and deployed the first Lean program at BNP Paribas. Since then, she has conceived and deployed Lean management programs for other major European companies, engaging more than 4,000 people in IT,...

Daniel Jones, Lean Enterprise Academy

      Biography: Founder and Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy in the U.K., Daniel T. Jones is a senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, management thought leader, and mentor on applying lean process thinking to every type of business. Daniel Jones is the author, with James P. Womack, of the influential and popular management books that describe the principles and practice of lean thinking in production. These include: The Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your...