Gemba Academy Podcast: Lean Manufacturing | Lean Office | Six Sigma | Toyota Kata | Productivity | Leadership

This week's guest is Mary Lemmer. Mary leveraged her unique background in improv comedy and entrepreneurship to create a fun and effective training methodology that has helped countless organizations overcome all kinds of obstacles. A MP3 audio version of this episode is available for download here. In this episode you'll learn:  One of Mary's favorite quotes (3:09) Mary's background (4:59) About her LinkedIn photo (9:55) Why improv feels like freedom (12:20) Improv comedy and leadership (14:33) About the process (18:19) The role of empathy (24:12) How personality types factor in (26:04) Some of Mary's favorite improv moments (30:20) The "First Word Last Word" exercise (32:30) Podcast Resources Right Click to Download this Podcast as an MP3 Download a Free Audio Book at Audible.com Mary's Website Mary on LinkedIn Subscribe & Never Miss New Episodes! Click to Subscribe in iTunes If you enjoyed this podcast please be sure to subscribe on iTunes. Once you're a subscriber all new