Clarity First with ASQ Houston

Karen joins ASQ Houston to give her a presentation on Clarity First: The Foundation for Outstanding Performance.

Value Stream Thinking with The Flow Sessions

Karen joins Steve Pereira and Helen Beal to discuss Value Stream Thinking on The Flow Sessions, hosted by Value Stream Management Consortium.

A Quality Podcast | Season 2: Episode 1

Karen joins John Thacker and Jake Harrell for Season 2: Episode 1 of A Quality Podcast.

Clarity First and Having It All with Paul Critchley

Karen joins Paul Critchley for the Season 2 finale of The New England Lean Podcast.

My Favorite Mistake with Mark Graban

Karen joins Mark Graban for an episode of his My Favorite Mistake podcast. Together they discuss her “favorite mistake” of leaving a corporate job to[…]

Don’t Return to Normal. Return to Better.

Karen participates in a special panel discussion—hosted by Lean Frontiers—alongside Jamie Flinchbaugh, David Veech, and Jim Huntzinger. Together they discuss a Continuous Improvement perspective on[…]

Value Stream Mapping with Niroshan Madampitige

Karen joins Niroshan Madampitige in an episode of his Agile Interview series for a discussion about Value Stream—it is and why it’s needed. To purchase[…]

Clarity First with The Growth Faculty

Karen is interviewed by Christine Kininmonth of The Growth Faculty about how clarity boosts individual and organizational performance. To purchase the book: www.clarityfirstbook.com To take a free clarity[…]

Clarity First with Quality Digest

Karen is interviewed by Mike Richman and Dirk Dusharme from Quality Digest about her latest book, Clarity First, and what happens to both organizational and individual[…]

Shingo Research Award for Value Stream Mapping

This is Karen’s second Shingo Research Award and Mike’s first. The award ceremony took place on May 5, 2015 in Provo, Utah. To learn more[…]

Value Stream Mapping Book Trailer

This book trailer gets to the heart of what the Shingo award-winning Value Stream Mapping can do for you and your organization. Learn more: Value[…]

Value Stream Mapping and Organizational Healing

Karen is interviewed by Gemba Academy’s Ron Pereira about her Shingo Award-winning book Value Stream Mapping (co-authored with Mike Osterling), including the role of VSM in[…]

The Outstanding Organization with Gemba Academy

Karen is interviewed by Gemba Academy’s Ron Pereira about her Shingo Research Award-winning book, The Outstanding Organization, and the four key behaviors for organizational excellence—Clarity, Focus,[…]

Value Stream Mapping with Gemba Academy

Karen is interviewed by Gemba Academy’s Ron Pereira about her book Value Stream Mapping (co-authored with Mike Osterling), written for leaders in service, office, and knowledge-work[…]

The Outstanding Organization

Karen is interviewed by Gemba Academy’s Ron Pereira about her Shingo Research Award-winning book, The Outstanding Organization, and the four key behaviors for organizational excellence—Clarity, Focus,[…]

Tips for Building an Outstanding Organization

Karen talks about her Shingo Prize Award-winning book The Outstanding Organization and offers tips to Swedish managers who want to improve their operations.

The Outstanding Organization with Tal Shnall – Part 2

Part 1 – https://vimeo.com/107729261 To purchase the book: https://bit.ly/TOObk This is part two of a conversation about The Outstanding Organization with Tal Shnall of Lead[…]

The Outstanding Organization with Tal Shnall – Part 1

Part 2 – vimeo.com/107729260 To purchase the book: bit.ly/TOObk This is part 1 of a conversation about The Outstanding Organization with Tal Shnall of Lead[…]

Lean Enterprise- About the Field – Karen Martin, M.A. – UC San Diego Extension

Karen Martin, M.A., advisor and instructor in UC San Diego Extension’s Lean Enterprise Certificate Program, shares insights into a career as a lean process improvement[…]

Value Stream Mapping Book Review on Quality Digest

To purchase the book: https://bit.ly/VSMbk This is a Value Stream Mapping book review from the February 7, 2014 episode of Quality Digest Live.

Learn about Karen Martin, President of TKMG, Inc.

To learn more about Karen and TKMG, Inc., contact us at info@tkmg.com.

Building an Outstanding Organization – Part 1

To book Karen to appear at your event, please contact speaking@ksmartin.com. Part 2: https://vimeo.com/83069683 To purchase the book: https://bit.ly/TOObk This is Part 1 of Karen’s[…]

Building an Outstanding Organization – Part 2

To book Karen to appear at your event, please contact speaking@ksmartin.com. Part 1: https://vimeo.com/83166372 To purchase the book: https://bit.ly/TOObk This is Part 2 of Karen’s[…]

Building An Outstanding Organization

To book Karen to appear at your event, please contact speaking@ksmartin.com. In this video view samples from Karen’s latest keynotes.

The Outstanding Organization Book Trailer

To purchase the book: https://bit.ly/TOObk This book trailer gets to the heart of Karen Martin’s Shingo prize-winning The Outstanding Organization. Hear Karen describe how the[…]

Creating the Improvement-Minded Organization

To learn more about The Karen Martin Group, Inc., visit https://tkmg.wpengine.com or contact us at info@ksmartin.com. These are highlights from a keynote I gave at[…]

OPPD Lean Certificate Program – Project Team #2

This video was produced by Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) to highlight the results and learning achieving by one of the project teams during the[…]

OPPD Lean Certificate Program – Project Team #1

This video was produced by Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) to highlight the results and learning achieving by one of the project teams during the[…]