Carol M. Shaw
Across her innovative career, Carol Shaw has been a pioneer in the rebirth of manufacturing in the United States. Professor Shaw founded—and for twenty years led—The Center for Competitive Change at the University of Dayton (Ohio). Partnering with such thought leaders as Chirkio Nakao (Shingijutsu Group), the Kaizen Institute, William Laureau (American Samurai), and Gwendolyn Galsworth (Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking). Professor Shaw developed a training curriculum and certification program in lean and visual that trained over 25,000 managers. The Center completed some 3,000 on-site consulting and conversion projects, with workplace visuality as a foundation on many of them. Most recently as Professor Emeritus of Engineering Management, Carol conducts seminars and classes on lean and visual thinking as part of UD’s engineering and business curriculum. She is currently in the process of writing a new book, Moments of Truth: Caught in the Turnstile of Work and Other Things I Learned Along the Way.
