Our mission is to make a world of work that is practical, humane, and rewarding.
Our Founders
Award winning pioneers in individual, team, and corporate work, Jim and Toni have worked with hundreds of companies world wide, creating collaborative, humane, and highly performing teams that enjoy going to work.
A pioneer in applying Lean and Kanban to knowledge work, Jim is the creator of Personal Kanban and co-author four books. He co-author of Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life, winner of the Shingo Research and Publication Award. He is the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, and co-founder of Modus Institute. For the past three decades Jim has worked with teams worldwide, helping them uncover ways for individuals and groups to communicate, collaborate, and find clarity in unpredictable and amorphous environments.
Jim Benson
Tonianne is a partner & principal consultant at Modus Cooperandi, co-author of the Shingo Research and Publication Award-winning Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life, and co-founder of Kaizen Camp™ and Modus Institute. Toni explores the relationship between performance, motivation, and neuroscience. She is passionate about the roles collaboration, value-creation, and happiness play in the ways people work together and practically finish quality product.