Gwendolyn Galsworth

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rdf:langString Gwendolyn Galsworth is the American president and founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and an author, a researcher, teacher, consultant, publisher and thought leader in the field of visuality in the workplace and visual management. Her books, which have won multiple Shingo Prize awards in the Research and Professional Publication category, focus on conceptualizing and codifying workplace visuality into a single, comprehensive framework of knowledge and know-how called the "visual workplace." Dr. Galsworth was one of the ten original members of the Productivity Inc. team assembled by Norman Bodek in the early 1980s to establish that company as the premier resource for books and intelligence from Japan that documented and explained what was then called The Japanese Manufacturing Miracle, richly exemplified by the Toyota Production System. Today, she continues to consult and teach, lead visual conversions, and create books, videos, and self-standing online training systems on the principles, practices, and methods known as the technologies of the visual workplace. She is a frequent keynote speaker on the business improvement conference circuit and hosted a weekly web-based radio show for seven years, initially called “The Visual Workplace” and then “Visual Workplace Radio.”