Expertise
Jennifer DeWare is a seasoned consultant and energizing public speaker with 20 years of experience in process improvement, facilitation, strategic planning, executive coaching, culture change, and operational excellence. President & founder of Visualiiz, Jen is passionate about helping organizations ‘see’ opportunities for improvement that often go unnoticed. Having spent 12 years working in the public sector, mainly healthcare, Jen has great experience in knowledge industries where the actual processes are hard to see. In 2014 Jen started working in the private sector, training change leaders, coaching senior management and key leaders, and motivating cross-disciplinary teams to improve their productivity.
In 2008, Jen was the Regional Lead of Process Improvement for Horizon Health. She worked in partnership with the Office of Strategy Management of the Government of New Brunswick, supporting the departments of Social Development, Justice & Attorney General, and Health with the implementation of their formal management systems and process improvement programs. Jen holds a Process Mastery Certification from the Hammer & Co program in Boston and is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
Busy is the New Stupid
This professional development training has been delivered 180+ times from coast to coast. It teaches your team to ‘see’ their work every day very differently. Professionals are technical experts in their fields; they know how to do surgery, teach, weld, or draft legal briefs. It’s what they are good at. Most professionals, however, are not trained in operational efficiency and improvement. Therefore, they waste precious hours daily and weekly on non-value-added work.
We have created a society that judges people based on how busy they are versus how productive they are, which drives the wrong behaviours in our workplaces. Our training teaches how to identify and eliminate non-value-added work so time and energy can be spent on what truly matters.