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THE MAVERICK INSTITUTE
Customized Workshops, Coaching and Consulting
for Operations Excellence
At the Maverick Institute, Todd Hudson and his team help organizations strive for operations excellence with a toolbox of process improvement methods.
We work with you to uncover simple, incremental improvements you can make to dramatically improve speed, quality, safety and costs to meet your strategic goals.
Continuous Improvement Workshop
Todd Hudson’s fully customized Continuous Improvement workshop, held at your location, helps you deploy continuous improvement methods such as Lean, Kaizen and Six Sigma.
Operations Excellence Consulting
Have a gnarly problem or a big stretch goal? We have an entire toolbox of process improvement techniques as well as creative problem solving and decades of practical experience across many industries.
One-on-One Coaching
We offer packages for customized coaching by Todd Hudson, who has more than 25 years of Lean Six Sigma and staff management experience. A great followup to help people get the most out of our workshops or extend their knowledge in specific directions.
Improving Training With Lean
Fully customized for your organization, Todd Hudson’s popular Improving Training With Lean workshop teaches your people efficient, fast, and effective ways to develop and deploy learning solutions.










The Latest From Todd Hudson’s Blog:

The Cobots Are Coming!
The pandemic isn’t just creating new tectonic changes in the workplace – it’s also accelerating pre-pandemic changes. Today, I want to fill you in on one of those, an operations trend that will sweep across globe like wildfire now that Covid-019 has lit the match: Cobots. (Article 6 in Todd Hudson’s “Climbing the Reopen Mountain Series.”)

Solving Problems in the Pandemic: What to Do When it Hits the Fan
When it hits the fan, it’s time to get into problem solving mode! But when you try to do that, you’ll find that COVID-19 is going to impede your efforts. Your people can’t, like they used to, just all pile into a conference room with gallons of coffee and dozens of donuts and spend hours (maybe even days?) arguing the issues and thinking of ideas to try. (Article 5 in Todd Hudson’s “Climbing the Reopen Mountain Series.”)

Sh*t Still Happens. Plan For It Before Your Ramp-Up.
So let’s say you really nail the standard work and your ramp-up is going great. What happens next? WHAM! Something you didn’t plan for. Something you couldn’t plan for because you couldn’t even see it coming. (Article 4 in Todd Hudson’s “Climbing the Reopen Mountain Series.”)

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