Institute Seminar Series: National Emergency Briefing (NEB) Film

Biography

Dr Sinha is a senior lecturer in operations management, an author, lean practitioner and pracademic from the University of Surrey. She has worked in the lean and improvement discipline from 1992 where she worked as an engineer within the manufacturing and business systems group responsible for blue sky technologies for the Eurofighter programme. Her passion for lean has evolved over the years to lead improvement communities of practice and embed lean principles within higher education, the public sector, health, wellbeing, and manufacturing. Developing lean six sigma programmes for University of Cambridge, Southampton, Winchester and Hampshire County Council contributing to the embedding of lean thinking and tools across these organisations. She is dedicated to linking sustainability to CI and previously held the position of Director for the centre for climate action and education at the University of Winchester, where she supported vice chancellor Prof Joy Carter and Prof Carole Parkes Advisor to the UN to embed sustainability across the Institution. Dr Sinha has written widely on improvement and has recently co-edited a book Balzer B and Sinha T (2024) “Hoshin Kanri in Higher Education: A guide to strategy development, deployment and management” Routledge. The book introduces HK and showcases impact in 10+ global Higher Education Institutions. Her knowledge exchange approach focuses on building capability for lean and sustainability across sectors through experiential learning, coaching kata, and improvement katas.  She has a PhD in Operations Strategy, is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a LEGO ® Serious Play ® facilitator, and an advisor member to the Harmony Project (sustainability in education) and Hampshire Forum on Climate Change.

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