Instructor David Mann
David Mann is the author of Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions. The book was awarded the Shingo Prize in 2006, is in its eighth printing, and is being translated into Chinese, Russian, and Thai.

During his 21-year career with Steelcase, Mann derived and applied the concepts of a lean management system. In his service with the company, he supported 40+ lean value stream transformations, and led an internal consulting team that completed over 100 successful office and product development lean business process conversions.

Mann’s consulting and training experience includes lean transformation in manufacturing, enterprise business processes, and healthcare organizations as well as frequent training and speaking engagements on lean management.

He is an adjunct faculty member in the Operations Management program at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University and OSU’s Center for Operational Excellence and Masters of Business in Operational Excellence. Mann serves as a Shingo Prize board examiner and on the Lean Transformation Advisory Board for St. Mary’s Healthcare in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a frequent contributor to and member of the editorial board of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence’s publication Target, and also serves on the board of AME’s Great Lakes Region.

Mann is an organizational psychologist. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1976.