Tom Zidel

Tom Zidel has earned the prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for his book Lean Done Right: Achieve and Maintain Reform in Your Healthcare Organization. The Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award: is awarded to authors for their writing on operational excellence and promote and recognizes new knowledge and understanding. It recognizes a book's contribution to increasing overall operational excellence. In addition, Lean Done Right is a 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards silver medal winner, in the category of operations management. This award is intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary business books and their creators, with the understanding that business people are a very well-read and informed segment of the population, eager to learn about great new books that will inspire and inform them, and help them improve their careers and businesses.

Tom Zidel is president of Lean Hospitals, a consulting company, which provides consulting, facilitation and training to healthcare organizations. With more than 25 years of experience in Lean and Six Sigma implementation, Tom has guided many organizations on their Lean journey. He has dedicated the last 12 years to working exclusively with healthcare organizations he is also, the author of the best selling book "A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare, How to Implement Lean Principles in Hospitals, Medical Offices, Clinics and Other Healthcare Organizations".

Tom Zidel is a pioneer in Lean implementation in healthcare. His presentations and workshops are stimulating, energetic and functional. His unique approach to Lean implementation allows organizations to sustain their lean initiative by creating a Lean culture and developing in-house experts in both lean and Six Sigma. Tom's passion for Lean is contagious. His presentations provide insight into the need for Lean implementation in healthcare. His goal is to create a Lean culture and systems thinking in healthcare organizations so they can sustain the Lean initiative independently without the need for outside support.