This year’s Lean Kanban North America conference was very special for me. I won the Brickell Key Award “for outstanding achievement and leadership” as the stylish glass block says. Thank you so much to everybody who nominated me and provided references! It’s really a very big honour to be selected out of this outstanding list of nominees:
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Amanda Varella, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Bernadette Dario, Ontario, Canada
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Christophe Achouiantz, Borlange, Sweden
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Håkan Forss, Stockholm, Sweden
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Klaus Leopold, Vienna, Austria
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Lu Ning, Beijing, China
According to the official announcement, this year’s jury picked Amanda Varella for her work at Petrobas where she started with Kanban already back in 2008 and currently more than 40 teams are using it. And the jury chose me for my work as a speaker, author, consultant and thought leader. I am also very happy that my friend Mike Burrows won the Community Contribution Award for putting a particular emphasis on ethics, values and principles in Kanban land.