The Lean Kōhai: Meditations for Strategy, Practice, and Balance in Living Change Management (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032830285)

Don Arp, Jr., Ph.D. has held several leadership roles including as a founder and deputy director for a state-level process improvement center and as a deputy director in a social services agency. Don has served as a cabinet member in the administration of a former governor of Nebraska and is currently an executive director in the public sector.

He is a writer, researcher, and leader, with years of experience in public and private sector compliance, oversight, investigations, operational excellence, management assessment, and executive leadership.

Don is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction in history and a Master of Arts in anthropology (specializing in archaeology). In 2019, Don received his doctorate in transdisciplinary writing from Middlesex University in London. Don is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and has had his work published in Six Sigma Forum Magazine and Lean & Six Sigma Review.