Join staff and faculty colleagues from across the University for ideas and discussion on how to support continuous improvement for teams in hybrid and remote environments. Featured speaker Michael Warden, Senior Director of Business IT from Michigan Medicine will share HITS "Flexible First" approach as well as how they support healthy teams.

This session, facilitated by Casey Parrotte from the Kidney Epidemiology and Costs Center (KECC) in the School of Public Health, will invite participants to learn from and share with others through intentional connection opportunities during the session.

Please register in order to receive Zoom information for the gathering.

Empowering Blue (EB) is a community for staff and faculty to connect, collaborate and learn together about improvement, change and innovation. Facilitated by Organizational Excellence, EB participants will meet other like minded people to spark new ideas, share best practices for continuous improvement and empower each other.

Our mission is to support and encourage those who are transforming the way we do business for the benefit of its students, staff, faculty, alumni and community. Topics will include continuous improvement, Lean, change management, trends and technology, engagement, process improvement and more!