Episode 7
Henry Darwin, Assistant Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Leading Lean from the Top at the EPA
Time: 54:57
Henry Darwin, Chief Operating Officer for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, tells his story of implementing Lean first in the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, then statewide for the Governor of Arizona, and currently for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Henry’s experience has given him a deep set of beliefs about the work of leadership in Lean-based performance transformation.
Show Notes:
Henry Darwin started government service at the bottom of the organizational ladder, at the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, coming to the agency with a Hydrology degree and as a lawyer with a certificate in environmental and natural resource law. He worked his way up to the top of the agency. The governor then asked him to serve as the state’s Chief Operating Officer.
Now he is at the federal level as the Assistant Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer for the Environmental Protection Agency.
He references Ken Miller’s book We Don’t Make Widgets: Overcoming the Myths that Keep Government from Radically Improving (2006), and also John's book, Government That Works.
