At JE Dunn, Lean is more than just tools and processes, it’s a culture. By building trust and fostering transparency and accountability, our teams generate value, streamline workflows, and deliver higher quality, safer, and more predictable projects.
From design through construction, we leverage proven Lean tools to optimize outcomes:
Our Lean culture empowers teams to collaborate effectively, solve problems early, and align every decision with the owner’s vision, delivering projects faster and smarter. Applying lean principles to a project can improve workflow, leading to more reliable cost, schedule, and scope.
Elizabeth Taylor, National Lean Director, brings nearly 20 years of experience in operations and lean coaching, all with JE Dunn. She leads a team of lean coaches, building project team capabilities in Lean Project Delivery, Last Planner® System, Target Value Delivery, Choosing by Advantages, and other lean practices. Drawing on her operations background, she brings a practical, field-informed perspective to improving performance, delivering, and creating value for clients, partners, and employees.
Certified in Everything DiSC and as a Scrum Master, she is also an approved Lean Construction Institute (LCI) instructor. A 2007 graduate of Minnesota State University at Mankato with dual degrees in Interior Design and Construction Management, Elizabeth is actively involved with LCI at a national level.
