Thursday, March 6, 2025 Virtual Conference

Peter Palmér, LPPDE and Juha Tammi, Lean Association of Finland - Welcome and Instructions

Peter and Juha represent the two organization who organize these virtual online events and will moderate the Virtual Summit.

Faith Burndred, Nestlé Product Technology Centre – Experiences with Lean in Confectionery R&D – Sharing Our Journey

This presentation invites you virtually to Nestlé Product Technology Centre, York – the global home of Confectionery R&D. Aimed at an audience members who are newer to Lean Product and Process Development, the presentation will share snapshots and practical examples of how a Lean approach has helped improve people and team engagement, processes, project delivery, and the physical work environment. The audience will also get a glimpse of the workplace culture at the Centre and how it continues to evolve.

Faith Burndred has spent her entire career working at Nestlé in the Confectionery category in various technical roles, firstly supporting operations and then R&D. During the last 12 years she has championed the use of Lean thinking both at her home Centre in York and more widely within the global Nestlé R&D community.

Audrey Gilfillan & Alison West, Applied Wellness Initiatives and University of Colorado Boulder
– Management's Guide to Supporting Engineers' Mental Health in the Workplace

Lean engineers are tasked with the high-stakes responsibilities of navigating competing priorities, balancing the big-picture vision with key design details, and maintaining effective, interdisciplinary communication. When this pressure exists without sufficient support, mental health challenges such as burnout, anxiety, and depression can occur. Companies can experience the cost of absenteeism, attrition, and decreased productivity that are the result
of unsupported mental health concerns. Audrey and Alison provide an overview of the relationship between mental health and workplace outcomes. A 6-level model will be reviewed that provides concrete guidelines for how managers can effectively and appropriately recognize and respond to mental health concerns that arise in the workplace.

Audrey Gilfillan has experience in a broad range of professional disciplines including psychotherapy, career counseling, academic coaching, consulting, training, and supervision. In this work, she has developed a speciality in supporting engineers and their mental health while they continue to pursue their professional goals. As a co-creator of the Scaffolded Mental Health Support Model, Audrey also specializes in helping non-clinical professionals support the mental health of their students and employees within occupational settings. Building on her therapeutic skills for engineers and her systems approach to psychological wellness in workspaces, Her special interests include emotional regulation, supporting leaders as they support the mental health of their teams, neurodiversity, values-based decision making, executive functioning skills, and effective communication. Co-Author of Decompile Your Mind: An Engineer's Guide to Thoughts and Emotions.

Alison West’s clinical training and background reach far and wide across the mental health care system. From working with individuals in crisis, to providing ongoing therapeutic care, and helping vulnerable populations navigate convoluted systems, Alison has seen up close the variability of needs within the mental health continuum. One of Alison’s greatest passions is providing mental health support for engineering students, who in her opinion, are some of the most driven, resilient, and delightful people she has ever met. In addition to providing individual therapy, Alison works closely with faculty, staff, and student leaders to respond to the unique challenges of engineers–developing personalized programming and resources. Her special interests include mindfulness, emotion regulation, addiction, and collective efforts to support and destigmatize mental health.

Peter Stevens, Personal Agility – First Impressions: Combining Lean and Scrum for Hardware Development

I recently started coaching a project to create a new hardware development process. Our team
combined Lean and Scrum principles to accelerate design cycles, speed up time-to-market and reduce the cost of change. Achieving this requires not only improvements within the development team, but also with stakeholders up and down the organization. I’ll share my initial lessons and highlight some of the benefits and challenges we’ve encountered.

1. Lean and Scrum: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together?

2. Learning and Unlearning – When You Do Something New, You Let Go of Something Familiar

3. How I Learned to Love Chaos and Conflict

4. It’s About People

5. It’s About Cooperation

Peter Stevens is called by leaders and executives when they want their corporate initiatives to start moving forward. He get things unstuck. You can get things done faster than you ever thought possible!

He is engaged as Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, Agility Officer, Scrum Trainer, or Change Leader. He talks about Agility, Leadership Skills, Scrum, Scrum for Hardware.

Peter is the creator of The Personal Agility System (tm), the simple, scalable leadership framework for aligning actions with priorities. He wrote Ten Agile Contracts, the bridge between procurement and product delivery, and he co-created the Agile Contract Manifesto.
👉My Website: https://saat-network.ch/solutions/#transformation
👉Contact me: https://saat-network.ch/contact/

Final reflections and remarks

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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