Chet Marchwinski is the communications director at the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit research, education, publishing, and conference company with a mission to advance lean thinking around the world.

We teach courses, hold management seminars, write and publish books and workbooks, and organize public and private conferences. We use the surplus revenues from these activities to conduct research projects and support other lean initiatives such as the Lean Education Academic Network, the Lean Global Network and the Healthcare Value Leaders Network. Visit LEI at http://www.lean.org for more information.