Tonianne DeMaria Barry is a partner at Modus Cooperandi, a Shingo-award winning author, systems thinker, photographer, and historian. She looks beyond the apparently obvious problems and sees their real social and systemic root causes. Ms. Barry is the coauthor (with Jim Benson) of Personal Kanban and the upcoming Why Kanban Works. She is cofounder of Kaizen Camp, the continuous improvement un-conference with events held worldwide. Passionate about the roles that collaboration, value creation, and happiness play in "the future of work," and appreciative of the ways in which Lean thinking can facilitate these ends, Ms. Barry works with clients globally to create cultures of continuous improvement via business environments that are more humanistic than mechanistic. She can be reached at tonianne at moduscooperandi.com.