Tag: Podcast

Podcasts on Lean, Leadership, and Continuous Improvement

The Lean Blog Interviews Podcast explores leadership, systems, and continuous improvement through thoughtful conversations with practitioners, executives, authors, and researchers. These episodes go beyond tools to examine how organizations really improve—through better leadership behaviors, respect for people, learning from mistakes, and sound management systems. This archive brings together podcast episodes focused on Lean, healthcare, Toyota, Deming, psychological safety, and what it actually takes to sustain improvement over time.

Why Psychological Safety Is Essential to Quality and Continuous Improvement

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In this special bonus episode, Mark Graban and C.J. Kaufman preview the ASQ Cincinnati-Dayton 2025 conference and explore why quality, leadership, and psychological safety...

Why Caring Cultures Matter in Lean: Psychological Safety, Respect for People,...

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Caring cultures are not "soft" extras in Lean--they are foundational. Caroline Greenlee and Chris Butterworth explain how psychological safety, respect for people, and wellbeing...

Lean Healthcare Leadership: Humility, Psychological Safety, and Sustainable Improvement (with Carlos...

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In this episode of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, Carlos Scholz discusses Lean healthcare leadership, psychological safety, and humility--why improvement depends on leadership behaviors,...

Previewing the LPPDE 2025 Conference with Geoff Neiley & Andrew Wagner

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guests for this bonus episode of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are Geoff Neiley and...

Profitable at Any Price: Lessons from Toyota, Daily Kaizen, and Safer...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #535 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Gregg Stocker, a seasoned...

Dale Lucht on Leadership Habits That Sustain Lean Transformations

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In this episode of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, Dale Lucht reflects on the leadership habits that separate short-lived Lean gains from lasting cultural...

Building Independent, Empowered Teams Through 6 Transformational Leadership Habits, with Cheryl...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #533 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Cheryl Jekiel, founder of...

Coaching Relentless Problem Solvers and Building a Culture of Lean Thinking...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #532 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Anne Frewin, a seasoned...

Melisa Buie on Lean Culture, Scientific Thinking, and Empowering Engineers

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #531 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Dr. Melisa Buie, a...

Ken Segel on Lean Healthcare, Safety, and Building a Comprehensive Operating...

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In Episode #530 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, I'm joined by Ken Segel of Value Capture to discuss what it really takes to...

Designing a Culture of Respect: Lessons from the Respect for People...

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Many Lean transformations stall not because of poor execution, but because respect for people is treated as an attitude rather than a system. In...

Hoshin Kanri and Managing on Purpose: Lessons from Former Toyota Leader...

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Former Toyota leader Mark Reich explains why Hoshin Kanri is not a top-down planning exercise, but a leadership system for aligning strategy, developing people,...
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