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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. On the side she is an amateur but passionate musician and poet.

It’s the process of intentional living that matters, not the results

When we focus exclusively on specific results as the measure of success we rise and fall on those results alone

Minimalist Lean – Are you living with workplace clutter?

Clutter is the cause of many unpleasant side effects whether it’s in our homes, our minds, our schedule or our work processes.

6 great ways to simplify your life in 2018

I recently wrote a guest post for Stoke, an amazing home and garden page on Facebook, on some great ways to simply your life this year. If you’re looking for […]

Intentional Living – Why I’m living in a gym.

In that moment I realised that I needed to reconsider things in a different light. What I was looking at was not gym equipment clutter but actually physical proof that we were living our priorities.

Lean Leadership – every lean success has great people behind it

Becoming a successful leader in a lean organisation relies heavily on the support and buy in of the people in your team

Minimalist Lean – Avoiding the pitfalls of visual display boards

Anyone who has been involved with lean for any period of time has had experience with one of the most powerful and also one of the trickiest lean tools around. […]

The Lean Minimalist approach to keeping improvements simple

It’s easy to over complicate the solution to a problem. Try a more minimalist approach to lean improvement

Keeping up with priorities in the blur of the holiday season

Today is Saturday. I know this because I was shocked yesterday to find out that it was Friday when we thought it was Thursday. That is the effect of the […]

Leading an intentional life is a lot like hard work

It’s 8 pm on Monday night, its cold outside and I’m staring at the packed sports bag on my bed. If I leave now, in 20 minutes I’ll be sliding […]

How to get started with lean and create buy in with your team – the answer is Simple

A leader does not need to convince a team that has found waste in a process to reduce that waste. It just comes naturally.

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