Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's latest book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean, previous Shingo recipients.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
Nominate a Weezie’s Angel Healthcare Hero for Patient Safety and Outstanding...
In 2014, The Louise Batz Patient Safety Foundation developed the Weezie's Angel Healthcare Hero Award in honor of Louise Batz, who was lovingly called...
Preview of Mark Graban’s AME Australia “Road Show” in 2025; Improving...
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Welcome to this bonus session of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, originally recorded as a LinkedIn...
When the Grocery Store’s Christmas Spirit Confused a Lean Thinker (and...
Quick Reminder: Don't forget the LinkedIn Live event that Elisabeth Swan, Karen Martin, and I are doing tomorrow on the topic of visual workplaces,...
A LinkedIn Live Event on Visual Workplaces & Lean Management [Recording]
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Join us for an unscripted (improvisational?!) Lean LinkedIn Live Talk Show on the Visual Workplace. Mark...
Global Giveaway: Enter to Win a Signed Copy of “The Mistakes...
I'm doing another book giveaway contest -- enter to win a signed paperback copy of my book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a...
Facilitating Learning While Learning Myself: Mistakes, Music, and Moving Forward
Yesterday morning, I drove to a local client to facilitate a lunch-and-learn workshop featuring the Deming "Red Bead Game" and "Process Behavior Charts." Read...
Daily Management, Strategy Execution, and Lean Leadership with José Ferro
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My guest for Episode #521 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is José R. Ferro, PhD,...
Recording of My Lean Global Connection Event Talk — And a...
I was thrilled to be invited to join more than 100 other speakers for this day-long (24 hours) global event -- the Lean Global...
WSJ Shows Us a Day in the Life of a Plant...
As a Lean practitioner, I found the Wall Street Journal article about Ryan DeLand, the 39-year-old leader of Whirlpool's washing machine plant in Clyde,...
Lean Whiskey #49: Japan Study Tour, a Lost iPhone, and Some...
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It's Episode 49 of the Lean Whiskey podcast with Jamie Flinchbaugh and Mark Graban!
Mark shares tales of his holiday / study tour trip to...
Ten Years Ago — In the News Visiting a Japanese Lean...
Just over a week ago, I got back from Katie Anderson's Japan Study Trip. It was amazing! I have so much to write about...
Surveying the Lean Global Connection Audience on Barriers to Speaking Up
At yesterday's Lean Global Connection event, I posed a straightforward yet revealing question to the audience:
"What keeps you from speaking up at work?"
The...
