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Margie Hagene

Margie is an organizational effectiveness and Lean Thinking / Continuous Improvement teacher and coach.   For over thirty years, she has helped executives and senior leaders recognize their changing roles and responsibilities in complex systems.   By providing frameworks for thinking and learning, and evidence-based structures for practice, she supports leaders in identifying and developing appropriate behaviors and skills for leading and creating an organization filled with competent, confident problem solvers.  

For eighteen years, Margie worked as a global internal consultant for Ford Motor Company at all levels within the organization - from team leaders to the COO - in Product Development, Design and Manufacturing. 

Since 2005, Margie has worked in a variety of leading service and manufacturing industries, including healthcare, PreK-12 education, distribution, food service, and transportation/mobility.  Her work has included university programs in areas of leadership development, Lean Thinking, and organizational learning.  Margie’s ongoing community work focuses on issues of hunger relief and land conservation.

Clients invariably learn to appreciate Margie’s ability to quickly assess leadership qualities, identify issues of misalignment among management, and recognize disconnects between agreed to policies and principles and actual daily behaviors.  She embodies the belief that intentional, balanced focus on both the social and technical components in complex systems is essential for long-term effectiveness of any improvement efforts.

Margie holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from Butler University, Indiana (USA), and a Master of Science Degree in Education from Indiana University (USA).