Insights on Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Leadership, Innovation, and the Future of Work

Let’s be honest... When most people hear the word statistics, they think of long-forgotten math classes, blurry chalkboards, and professors who spoke in Greek — literally and figuratively. If you loved statistics in school, congratulations... You’re a unicorn! If you hated it, then you are in good company.

At RPM-Academy, we believe that success in the "future of work" no longer belongs to the busiest, but to the best coordinators of intelligence—human and artificial.

Input → Process → Output is a deceptively powerful model. It is a simple but effective way of depicting the chain of causality that describes, I think, all phenomena. Continuous improvement specialists rely on this model... our starting point for assessing the current state and informing the development of a future state, whether product or service. But what if we applied that same model to something even more profound: the development of human potential?

In 2022, more than 5 million people in Canada met the diagnostic criteria for a mood, anxiety or substance use disorder, with the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders increasing substantially over the previous 10 years.

From the moment we open our eyes to the world, curiosity pulls us forward. It’s not unique to humans — animals explore, prod, and investigate their environments.

Once upon a time, the British Cycling Team was the laughingstock of the competitive cycling world. One Olympic gold medal in nearly a century.

For years now, we've heard it repeated like gospel from political pulpits — "America has been treated unfairly."... This is a crisis born of greed, short-term thinking, and the commodification of human life in the name of cheap goods.

There’s something invigorating about a reset — not because what came before was wrong, but because what comes next could be even better.

...global tensions, deepening divisions, and rising anxiety, and leadership has never mattered more— and yet, never felt more fragile.

The world is changing—faster, louder, and with far more uncertainty than ever before...

Are We Truly Investing in Learning and Creating a Sustainable Learning Culture, or Just Building a Library?

I bet you've noticed that the adults around you are talking a lot about money, jobs, and something called "tariffs."

At critical moments in history, nations face the choice of evolution or stagnation. Canada stands at such a crossroads today.

As of today, the United States has implemented sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, triggering a seismic shift in global trade...

The current e-learning paradigm, characterized by static content and standardized courses, is rapidly becoming obsolete.

Stress levels in Canada, the United States, and worldwide have reached staggering heights... the weight of global uncertainty...

Yesterday’s tragic aviation accident near Reagan Airport should have united us in grief, yet became an opportunity for political division.

In today’s data-driven world, the tools at our disposal have evolved—none more dramatically than the emergence of artificial intelligence...

Fortune 1000 companies pledged over $340 billion to promote racial diversity. Today, many of those same companies are scaling back...

Star Trek may have got a lot right—but when it comes to the future of work, they also missed the mark by about 300 years.