Judy Worth is a full-time consultant based in Lexington, KY, and is a partner in Lean Transformations Group and co-owner of Verble, Worth & Verble. Her practice focuses on organizational development and instructional design. During her career she has worked extensively in a variety of healthcare settings. She has over 20 years of experience as consultant and trainer for many of the federally designated organ and tissue procurement organizations in the United States. Judy began her lean journey seven years ago when she provided the instructional design for Mapping to See: A Value Stream Improvement Kit for the Office and Services, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. Since then she has cofacilitated value-stream improvement initiatives in multiple healthcare and other organizations and provided train-the-trainer development for in-house facilitators.

Tom Shuker, a partner in Lean Transformations Group, is a 30-year veteran in various manufacturing environments within General Motors Corp. Tom also spent two years at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI), the GM-Toyota joint venture, working within the Toyota Manufacturing System and performing lean assessments of Toyota facilities in Kentucky and Japan. He has coauthored two books on lean, Value Stream Management and Value Stream Management for the Lean Office. Tom also is a coauthor of Mapping to See: A Value-Stream Improvement Kit for Office and Service. Tom is especially energetic in promoting the application of lean principles and tools in non-manufacturing environments, including healthcare, government, and financial services.

Beau Keyte began his lean consulting career in the mid-80s in the automotive industry, transitioned to adapting lean techniques to service and administrative processes in 1992, and has since progressed to developing and teaching the kind of self-sufficient thinking that challenges work and management processes, improves organizational performance and alignment, and sustains culture change. He now spends half of his time in the healthcare arena. He is currently partner in the Lean Transformations Group and a faculty member and instructor at the Lean Enterprise Institute, the University of Michigan, and The Ohio State University. Beau is the coauthor of The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Office and Administrative Processes. He also is coauthor of Mapping to See: A Value-Stream Improvement Kit for Office and Services.