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Maria Mentzer

Maria Mentzer

Chief Marketing Officer at See to Solve - I help leaders create more value faster by embedding dynamic learning into their operations i.e. implement a continuous improvement culture

Sacramento, California, United States

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Maria Mentzer is the Chief Marketing Officer of See to Solve LLC, responsible for helping customers implement and sustain a high velocity learning and continuous improvement culture based on See to Solve founder Steve Spears research and methods. Maria is a strategic leader with over 20 years of broad business experience spanning leadership roles in engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, sales, marketing, business development, IT, organizational development, DE&I, coaching & mentoring.

She is known for growing people, teams, and organizations to thrive and deliver operational excellence, and for being a passionate champion and driver of continuous improvement culture.

Maria holds an MBA and a S.M. in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both degrees as a fellow of MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations Program. She also holds a M.S. in Material Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida. Maria was born and grew up outside of Stockholm, Sweden and now resides with her family in northern California.

Maria meets leaders on their continuous improvement journey, working hands on with leaders who want help embedding a culture of continuous improvement in their organizations. She applies a practical proven incremental approach to gradually embed collaborative process improvement, problem solving, and discovery into leaders daily work and their peoples daily work for sustained cultural change.

The methods she uses are based on the work of her MIT professor and See to Solve colleague Steven J. Spear. Together they have honed a proven formula based on facilitating hundreds of hands-on sessions coaching teams and leaders to practice the behaviors and organizational capabilities of high velocity learning organizations until they become part of how they do their daily work.

Maria loves facilitating workshops and brings energy, fun and passion to the room. With decades of experience in coaching and facilitation she empowers organizations to discover and apply a high-velocity learning dynamic in their work and daily operations. Maria has facilitated transformation across a variety of business functions (engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, sales, marketing, finance, human resources, business development, IT).

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Manufacturing & Industrial Materials

Topics

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Lean Change Management
  • Lean / Agile Transformation
  • Lean / Agile Leadership
  • Lean Management
  • Continuous Learning
  • Learning and Development
  • Continuous Discovery
  • Culture & Collaboration
  • Change Leadership
  • Leadership
  • Lean
  • operations
  • Business Leadership
  • Leadership development
  • Women in Leadership
  • Lean thinking
  • Lean Enterprise
  • Agile Lean
  • Lean Startup
  • Lean / Agile Enterprises
  • culture
  • Cultural Transformation
  • Organizational Culture
  • Organizational Change
  • Organizational Transformation
  • organizational leadership
  • Organizational Change Management
  • organisational culture
  • Organizational Development
  • Organisational Transformation
  • Organizational Growth and Transformation
  • Learning Organizations
  • Teams and Organizations
  • Knowledge Discovery
  • Slowification
  • Simplification
  • Amplification
  • Organizational wiring
  • High-velocity organizational learning dynamic
  • Operational excellence
  • Operational Excellence

Maria Mentzer

Chief Marketing Officer at See to Solve - I help leaders create more value faster by embedding dynamic learning into their operations i.e. implement a continuous improvement culture

Sacramento, California, United States

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