continuous improvement

State of Readiness; Donald Kuk, Continuous Improvement Leader Extraordinaire

Our guest in this episode of “” is Donald Kuk; expert extraordinaire.  He started his continuous improvement journey in the mid-1990’s at General Electric when he was personally selected by Jack Welch to join Jack and a select group of others senior leaders at GE in the very class to be trained in Six Sigma – taught by the original Six Sigma Guru himself, the late Mikel Harry.  Since then, Donald has held senior positions at JP Morgan – Chase, Computer Associates, AIG, BNY Mellon, and now Mednax (a leading provider in the States).  Whether in the C-Suite or reporting to the C-Suite in his various positions, his responsibilities included; Continuous Improvement, , Quality, Policy Deployment, and .  I am sure you will find his experiences, stories, and insights as fascinating as I did.

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