Angeline has a track record of delivering sustainable improvements in business performance in senior leadership roles. She is passionate about pushing for greater depth of understanding on the importance of mindset, systems thinking and behaviours on outcomes.  She believes this is key to unlocking the potential for sustainable change even when faced with the most complex of challenges based on her personal experience of leading high-profile programmes within a global aerospace engine manufacturer.  She is a practical, hands-on leader with a reputation for building and maintaining collaborative relationships at all levels in an organisation and motivating cross functional and globally dispersed teams.

Having started her career in finance in a large blue-chip manufacturer, Angeline quickly established she wanted to understand more about how things were made and how value was created. She returned to full time education and graduated with a degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Nottingham Trent University.  As part of her studies she had her first taste of systems thinking, change management and the application of lean principles.  Her dissertation explored the differences, similarities and critical success factors of various published approaches to improve business performance.  These themes and a desire to continue to learn have continued to be a golden thread that has weaved through Angeline’s career through increasingly influential roles in finance, manufacturing, supply chain management and programme portfolio management.

Angeline enjoys spending time in the fresh air and open skies of the beautiful blustery North Norfolk coast. She also shares a passion for watching a wide range of theatre with her husband and teenage daughter.

Scientific Thinking and the Kanban method

In this talk, they will describe scientific thinking and how we use this as a basis for improvement cycles to help teams adopt new ways of working through experiential learning.

Scientific thinking is the continuous comparison between what we predict will happen next and what actually happens, to adjust our understanding and actions accordingly. This approach in combination with the Kanban method allows us to breakdown larger transformational initiatives into a set of focused improvement cycles that deliver incremental value.

Project 4 Learning lab have been helping large engineering and service OEMS achieve enhanced success through using Scientific thinking and the Kanban method and they will present our recent experience in implementing this approach.