149: Podcaster Teaches Continuous Improvement, Lean Leadership

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Chris Burnham is a lifelong learner and teacher of Lean Management systems and Continuous Improvement. Understanding that leadership is the difference between success and failure, Chris uses The Lean Leadership Podcast to teach, equip, and motivate others on using their gifts and talents to improve their own lives and others around them. Chris came to see how skills learned in his criminal justice studies were transferable. He saw that his talents that meshed with one field could be engaged in another.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 149. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Chris Burnham. Welcome, Chris. Thanks, Don. Chris, are you using your talents doing work that you love? Absolutely.
0:38.4	All righty.
0:39.0	We want to hear the whole story.
0:41.2	Chris Burnham is a lifelong learner and teacher of lean management systems and continuous improvement.
0:47.4	Understanding that leadership is the fundamental difference between success and failure in any improvement endeavor,
0:53.5	Chris uses his platform, the Lean Leadership
0:55.8	podcast to teach, equip, and motivate others on how to use their own unique gifts and talents
1:01.5	to improve their own lives and the lives of others around them. Well, Chris, that's a summary
1:06.3	of your career to date. Take just a few minutes and tell our listeners what you're up to now that has you
1:11.3	engaged and excited. Well, Don, I'm involved in several things that get me excited. First of all,
1:17.1	I'm a father of two beautiful children and I'm married to my soulmate. So being a father and a
1:21.9	husband is always my first occupation. Congratulations. Thank you very much. We are a blended family. My children live primarily
1:29.1	in North Carolina with their mother, so I split time between Memphis, Tennessee, and the
1:33.8	Charlotte, North Carolina area. My wife is my best friend, and we enjoy camping, fishing,
1:38.4	traveling, and of course Memphis Grizzlies basketball. I still work full time for a large
1:43.4	third-party logistics provider here in the Memphis,
1:45.4	Tennessee area, is a regional continuous improvement manager. And my occupational love is just helping
1:50.8	people realize the benefits and power of practicing daily continuous improvement in the workplace.
1:56.2	Wow. Some people call it lean. Some people call it operational excellence, some call it continuous improvement.
2:02.0	Whatever you call it, the principles are the same.
2:04.3	The daily practices are what changes as the business environment changes.
2:07.8	Part of my journey was starting the Lean Leadership podcast this year, and we are a once a week, sometimes more.
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