Gwendolyn Galsworth
Gwendolyn Galsworth | |
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| Born | upper New York State |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Montclair State University, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (Masters and PhD) |
| Occupations | Author, researcher, consultant, practitioner |
| Organization(s) | Visual Thinking Inc.; Visual-Lean Institute; Visual Thinking Europe |
| Known for | Developing and codifying workplace visuality, visual thinking, and the visual workplace as an applied field |
| Awards | Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award 2011 and 2006 |
Gwendolyn Galsworth is an American author, researcher, hands-on practitioner, and consultant known in the field of workplace visuality and visual thinking. She is the founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and the Visual-Lean Institute, serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Shingo Institute, and is a Lifetime Member of the Shingo Academy. She has written seven books, two of which—Visual Workplace-Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense—have received the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award.
Galsworth was one of the ten original members a team assembled by Norman Bodek in the early 1980s to document and explain what was then called The Japanese Manufacturing Miracle, exemplified by the Toyota Production System through books and resources from Japan.