Judy Worth

Judy, a full-time consultant based in Lexington, KY, is a partner in Lean Transformations Group and co-owner of Verble, Worth & Verble. Her practice focuses on organizational development and instructional design. During her career she has worked extensively in a variety of healthcare settings. Judy spent five years as materials developer for the Kellogg-funded Computerized Office Record Review Recertification Project for the American Board of Family Medicine. She has over 20 years of experience as consultant and trainer for many of the federally designated organ and tissue procurement organizations in the United States, and for the last seven years she has worked as a consultant and trainer for the Organ Donation and Transplant Division of the United Kingdom National Health Service, helping them develop UK-wide systems for organ donation and apply/adapt relevant best practices from the U.S. Breakthrough Collaborative on Organ and Tissue Donation. Judy began her lean journey seven years ago when she provided the instructional design for Mapping to See: A Value Stream Improvement Kit for the Office and Services, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. Since then she has co-facilitated value-stream improvement initiatives in multiple healthcare and other organizations and provided train-the-trainer development for in-house facilitators. Judy holds a BA from Harding College and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Kentucky.