Honsha Executive Director Sammy Obara learned and implemented the Toyota Production System (TPS) at Toyota facilities in Japan, Brazil, Venezuela and the USA. He has taught Lean to a multitude of consulting firms, educational organisations, such as Harvard and Stanford, and even in humanitarian missions in Asia and Africa.
With close to 30 years of Lean experience, Sammy has helped more than 350 companies. He has implemented projects in environments ranging from schools to hospitals, to military and in a variety of countries, including China, Mexico, Canada, Indonesia, Brazil, Japan, Austria, the UK and the USA.
Mastered in Technology Management, Sammy is also a faculty member with the Lean Institute and an instructor of Global Strategy Management for the California Community College system. He is a guest lecturer on Lean for post-graduate classes at Stanford University and San Diego State University, and has been a speaker at conferences sponsored by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), the Association for Productivity and Quality (APQ) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
Sammy is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and has a basic knowledge of Japanese.
