Lean Leader Meeting at Worth Stairs & Rails (05/29/2026)

Fri, 29 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Jacksonville Lean Consortium · Lean Leader Meeting

Go See Lean in Motion at Worth Stairs & Rails

Join Lean Jax for a hands-on morning inside Worth Stairs & Rails’ “Lean Experiment” — a practical look at how continuous improvement is taking shape across the shop, the office, and the systems that move work between teams.

Date

Friday, May 29, 2026

Time

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Location

Worth Stairs & Rails

4135 Highway 17 S
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043

Cost

Members Free
Non-Members $100

About the Event

Worth Stairs & Rails refers to this phase of its lean journey as the “Lean Experiment.” The work is not limited to the shop floor. You’ll see improvement thinking in the offices, in the flow of information, and in the way teams are learning to make work more visible.

This is not a showroom tour. It is a working session inside a company that is testing, learning, adjusting, and building better ways to serve its customers and support its people.

Bring your team. Bring a problem that has been sitting on your plate for too long. We will spend the morning looking, learning, and working through practical next steps together.

About Worth Stairs & Rails

America’s Premier Stair and Rail Specialists

Worth Stairs & Rails ("WSR") is a family-owned metal fabrication company in Green Cove Springs specializing in custom metal stairs and railings for commercial and monumental projects.

Their work has been featured at high-profile facilities including the Mayo Clinic and PGA Tour Headquarters. In 2025, WSR earned the AIA Jacksonville Craftsmanship Award for its work on the KLS Martin project — a fellow Lean Jax member.

Agenda

Friday, May 29, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM · Lunch to follow

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Introductions & Real Problems on the Table

Meet fellow Lean Jax members and their teams. Put real challenges on the table and walk through the thinking behind WSR’s “Lean Experiment.”

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Inside the “Progress Lab”

Walk the shop and the offices. See improvement work across the operation, including how WSR is using information systems to keep work moving between departments.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Problem-Solving Session

Work through the problems surfaced earlier in the morning and turn them into clear, practical next steps.

12:00 PM

Lunch & Collaboration

Share a meal, swap ideas, and keep building the First Coast network that helps everyone’s work get better.

What You’ll Take Away

Gemba-Based LearningSee how another local organization is applying lean thinking in the flow of daily work.

Practical Problem-SolvingWork through real challenges with other leaders and practitioners from across the First Coast.

Ideas You Can TestLeave with examples and next steps your team can adapt to your own environment.

Community ConnectionBuild relationships with people who are learning, experimenting, and improving alongside you.

About Lean Jax

The Jacksonville Lean Consortium is a member-driven nonprofit helping Northeast Florida organizations implement and sustain lean thinking. Through shared learning, site visits, and collaborative workshops, Lean Jax connects organizations and individuals committed to continuous improvement with respect for people.

Reserve Your Spot

Bring your team, bring a problem, and spend the morning learning with the First Coast lean community!

Lean Jax Lean Leadership Webinar Series with Sheila Montney (06/04/2026)

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Lean Leadership Webinar Series

The Jacksonville Lean Consortium’s Lean Leadership Webinar Series brings the field’s most respected voices into honest conversations about the work of building cultures that endure.

Every session is open to anyone who wants to learn. The principles travel, and the people doing this work deserve a place to learn from each other.

About the Session

Building and sustaining a culture of excellence is one of the hardest things an organization will ever undertake. Most operational excellence programs collapse the moment leadership changes hands.

The ones that endure share a deeper foundation: principles strong enough to outlast any single leader, any single strategy, any single moment in time.

The Shingo Model™ is built on that foundation. It is recognized around the world as the gold standard for organizational excellence, and its highest honor — the Shingo Prize — is widely regarded as the world’s highest standard for organizational excellence.

About the Speaker

Sheila Montney is the Managing Partner of Win Together®, one of roughly 30 Licensed Shingo Institute Affiliates worldwide and among the highest-rated in the global directory. She is a Life Member of the Shingo Academy, served a decade on the Shingo Executive Advisory Board, and holds a Master’s in Government from Harvard.

Sheila spent more than three decades inside State Farm, where she led the first Shingo Challenge ever completed by a financial services organization. Today, she works alongside city leaders applying the Shingo Model in one of the most challenging places to sustain real cultural change: local government.

Few practitioners have seen both sides of this work at her level.

The Format

This session is designed as a conversation. Sheila will share what she has learned from the work itself. James Bussell, Executive Director of the Jacksonville Lean Consortium, will guide the discussion. The audience will shape where it goes.

Who This is For

Whether you lead in manufacturing, healthcare, nonprofits, professional services, or the public sector, this webinar is built to work wherever people and processes meet.

What You'll Gain

✓ A Behind-the-scenes look at how local governments are applying the Shingo Model to transform their cultures.

✓ Leadership and cultural principles that translate across every sector.

✓ A clear picture of how a Shingo workshop turns these principles into action inside your organization.

✓ Practical insights you can take back to your team and put to work.

✓ Honest lessons from the field — what worked, what didn’t, and why building a culture of excellence takes discipline.

✓ Direct access to Sheila during a live Q&A.

Join Us

June 4, 2026 · 12:00 PM ET · 75 minutes · Free · Hosted on Zoom

Zoom login information will be sent upon registration.

We hope to see you then!

The Shingo Model™ is a trademark of the Shingo Institute. Win Together® is a registered trademark.

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