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Don’t Sacrifice Quality for Efficiency

by The HLH Team | Blog, Lean Culture, Lean Leadership, Manufacturing, Strategic Thinking

Efficiency is a 2-sided sword. It’s easy to get infatuated with the bottom-line improvements that process cuts offer, but it’s all for naught if the quality of your product suffers. Cut processes too deeply, and quality is the first thing to take a hit. Poor-quality...

Lean vs. Process Improvement: What’s the Difference?

by The HLH Team | Blog, Lean Culture, Lean Leadership, Strategic Thinking

The terms “Lean” and “Process Improvement” aren’t interchangeable. In fact, while they both seek bottom line savings, that’s where the similarities end. Here are some very broad strokes of what defines these tactics in relation to each other. Bottom line: their...

Office Bottleneck? It Might Be You.

by The HLH Team | Blog, Lean Culture, Professional Services, Strategic Thinking

Running an office is a gauntlet of processes that happen every minute of every day. Making coffee. Approving budgets. Putting callers on hold. There are some processes you think about, but most happen on autopilot. They flow and overlap throughout the day like a...

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8 Deadly Wastes

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Seminar: 8 Deadly Wastes
Date: October 31, 2019
Time: 2 pm

ehavlin@hlhcpa.com

780 429 4403

What sport do you enjoy watching or playing the most?

YAY SPORTS!

Elda Havlin

Business Manager

What’s your favourite food?

Does wine count?

What is your hidden talent?

I am the Popcorn Master.

If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would buy?

A lakeside cottage.

What was your first job?

“Interior wiper” at The Great Canadian Car Wash.

Something you’d never guess about me is:

I was a regular at Wreck Beach for years…

If you could have any band play at your backyard BBQ, who would it be?

Paul Simon.

How would your team describe you if you weren't around?

Fun, organized, and obsessed with my twin boy and girl.

Approachable, easy-going but highly organized.

mewoniak@hlhcpa.com

780 429 4403

What’s your favourite food?

Dark chocolate and spice.

Michelle Ewoniak

Administrative Assistant

f you could witness one event in history what would it be and why?

Meet Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, the first woman to run a Champagne house.

If you weren’t working in accounting, you would be:

A personal shopper (apparently I am very good at shopping…)!

Where did you grow up, and what’s it best known for?

Vegreville, and it’s best known for the world's largest Pysanka (Easter Egg) – it weighs in at 5000 lbs, is 31 ft. tall, and 18 ft. wide, and took over 12,000 hours to complete!

What was your first job?

Edmonton Northlands concession in the Agricom. I got the job because I could do math in my head.

If you could have any band play at your backyard BBQ, who would it be?

New Order.

How would your team describe you if you weren't around?

Positive, helpful, assertive, and very punctual.

Diligent, focused, has a zest for life.

skhong@hlhcpa.com

780 429 4403

What sport do you enjoy watching or playing the most?

Watching hockey and figure skating

Sally Khong

Accountant

What’s your favourite food?

Hot pot and ice cream

If you weren’t an accountant/working in accounting, you would be:

Travelling the world

I grew up in…and it’s best known for…

I grew up in Edmonton and it’s best known for festivals and West Edmonton Mall.

My next vacation is to:

I want to go to Europe!

Something you’d never guess about me is:

I went ziplining on the world’s longest over water zipline

Top goal on your bucket list?

To go skydiving one day!

How would your team describe you if you weren't around?

Quiet, hardworking, and eager to learn

Detailed, quiet, not afraid to ask “why” instead of just “how”

bmah@hlhcpa.com

780 429 4403

What sport do you enjoy watching or playing the most?

Watching the Oilers or Blue Jays baseball and playing golf

Brendon Mah

Accountant

What’s your favourite food?

If you weren’t an accountant, you would be:

A forensic psychologist, like on Criminal Minds!

If I won the lottery, the first thing I would buy would be:

A tortoise—I’ve always wanted one

Something you’d never guess about me is:

I enjoy country music

If you could witness one event in history what would it be and why?

JFK’s inauguration speech because it is so iconic.

Top goal on your bucket list?

Make my parents proud

How would your team describe you if you weren't around?

Punny, talkative, willing to learn, inquisitive

Friendly, personable, willing to take on new challenges

kjacklin@hlhcpa.com

780 429 4403

What sport do you enjoy watching or playing the most?

Rock Climbing

Katy Jacklin

Accountant

What’s your favourite food?

Brunch

If you weren’t an accountant, you would be:

Professional dog-walker.

If you had the chance to go into space, would you?

Probably not…I like Earth.

What is your hidden talent?

I speak a few languages.

Something you would never guess about me is:

I lived in Sweden for a year.

Top goal on your bucket list?

Travel to each continent.

How would your team describe you if you weren't around?

Friendly and helpful.

Cheery, hard-working, knowledgeable

Lean Thinking

Don’t Sacrifice Quality for Efficiency

Lean vs. Process Improvement: What’s the Difference?

Office Bottleneck? It Might Be You.

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