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Donna Sherriff is a New Zealand based improvement and operations management specialist. Seeing a need for simple, no fuss, improvement advice she started The Lean Minimalist blog in 2017. Donna writes articles offering advice and tips for rapid and sustainable business improvement based on over 15 years in Senior Management roles.
Passionate about sharing the lessons of over 20 years on the high performance track Donna offers coaching services to professionals. She also writes about her own personal improvement journey, minimalism, and her life long struggle against the tyranny of cookies and sugar which she overcame in 2020. These days, Donna is pursuing a journey to earn her black belt in Taekwondo after a long hiatus of 16 years away from training.
In June 2019 Donna published an essay collection of her lean blog posts titled 'Start Today with Lean'

In the 20 Mile March of your Lean Journey, it’s OK to Stop to Catch Your Breath

I don’t know what it’s been like in your company since the Covid-19 pandemic started but in ours we’ve been busier than we’ve ever been. On top of this we’ve […]

Happy New Year – Are You Ready to Start Changing into Your Next Self?

On the first day of the New Year I like to think about what the coming year might look like. Generally, late in the year I reflect on how far […]

Preparing for the New Year – How to Turn Your New Year’s Resolutions into a Solid Action Plan You Will Actually Achieve

Have you ever made ambitious New Year’s Resolutions only to find that three months in they have fallen by the wayside for whatever reason? Part of the reason that we […]

Personal Growth – Why breaking things down into systems helps us learn new and difficult skills

I am at Taekwondo training. My instructor has two hand mitts held up in front of me. We are practicing sparring and I have no idea what to do. My […]

Operation Flight – My first hand experience of the dreaded ‘Keto Flu’

My last post was about beginning a journey of weight loss in order to achieve some of my martial arts goals more easily, specifically jumping high so I can kick […]

Last Push in the Year of Transformation – Operation Flight

If you’ve been following my 2020 health and fitness journey, you will know that I have been working through what I’ve called ‘The Year of Transformation.‘ It started with a […]

The Year of Transformation – Courage and the Road to Black Belt

When I started on this journey of a Year of Transformation back at the beginning of 2020 I had no idea how far it would take me. Initially, I was […]

Lean Reflections – Why Looking Back can be Key to Looking Forwards

Every three years the Lean Certification granted to me by the Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME) comes up for re-certification. Part of the certification process involves recording the lean and […]

Halfway through the Year of Transformation – Why ‘Being Tougher’ is What’s Next

‘If you want to be tougher mentally, it is simple: be tougher. Don’t meditate on it.’ – Jocko Willink So at the beginning of this year I decided that by […]

Navigating the Roadblocks to Progress – How my Herniated Disc Will Not Stop Me from Moving Forwards

And so, last week the inevitable happened. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you will know that the main motivator behind my ongoing and relentless quest for […]

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