Yvonne DeGroot

Faculty

Yvonne DeGroot is an instructor who regularly teaches the following courses: Lean Overview, Problem Solving/A3 Thinking, Root Cause Analysis, Process Mapping, 5S, Creating a Continuous Improvement Culture, Project Management and Daily Continuous Improvement/Kata. In addition, she has experience with Hoshin Kanri, working with organizations to create and deploy their strategic plan.

She is currently an instructor at a local technical college. Prior to this role, Yvonne spent 15 years with ThedaCare which included roles as brand manager in marketing, facilitator with the ThedaCare Improvement System, then as a consultant with the Organizational Excellence department. While in these roles she facilitated improvement projects, coached leaders and trained team members in lean principles and methodologies, taught business acumen, performed cultural assessments and supported teams to reach their patient, employee, quality, safety and financial goals. Areas within the healthcare system Yvonne supported included orthopedics, primary care, pharmacy, laboratory and perioperative services.

Yvonne earned her Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Western Governors University and is nationally accredited in lean, with a Lean Bronze Certification and is a Six Sigma Green Belt. She is a certified facilitator for Franklin Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Leading at the Speed of Trust and The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity. In addition, she is trained in the Dale Carnegie Course Skills for Success and High Impact Presentations.

With a passion for continuous improvement and problem solving, she is an active volunteer with CI², (Continuous Improvement, Community Impact) where she serves as a coach and mentor for non-profit groups in Northeast Wisconsin, helping to solve problems that achieve community impact objectives.