Question assumptions
Look again at familiar ideas about Lean, leadership and organisational change.
Speaking
Challenge assumptions.Start a conversation.
Thought-provoking talks on Lean, leadership and building organisations that can keep learning and adapting.
What if the status quo was constant change? Cordell invites audiences to rethink familiar ideas about improvement and consider what those ideas mean for their own organisations.
Explore speaking
Speaking shaped around your organisation
Give people something worth thinking about.
Open a discussion that continues after the talk — with questions people can take back to their work.
A practical perspective
Cordell draws on experience in US Marine Corps aviation, Toyota, PepsiCo and consulting. Those different settings share a common lesson: people make the difference.
His talks connect that experience with the challenges organisations face when they want improvement to last. The emphasis is on understanding the thinking behind the tools.
Ideas that invite discussion
Possible themes include building dynamic organisations, common Lean misconceptions, learning through work and the role leaders play in developing others.
See, Solve, Share and Show provide a way to explore how people notice problems, work through them, share knowledge and make improvement visible.
Shaped around your audience
Start with your audience, the purpose of the event and the conversation you want to open. Discuss the topic and format with Cordell to find the right fit.
Connect ideas to work
Explore what the discussion means in the context of everyday decisions.
Share a language
Give people useful concepts for talking about improvement together.
Continue the conversation
Take questions and reflections back into your organisation.
Feedback from previous trainees
Learning that makes
a difference.
Developing people is at the heart of Cordell’s work. Here’s what previous trainees have said about learning with him.
“Cordell’s understanding and enthusiastic delivery of the subject matter makes our training workshops highly effective, efficient and fun.”
Engineering ManagerGlobal Manufacturing Organisation
“Cordell has shown me both a deep and broad knowledge on learning & teaching itself as a skill.”
CI LeaderGlobal Manufacturing Organisation
“We have used Cordell to deliver shop floor Professional and Autonomous maintenance programs as well senior management feasibility studies and consider him an integral business partner.”
Engineering ManagerGlobal Manufacturing Organisation