This archive collects videos, webinar recordings, livestreams, and video-based conversations focused on Lean leadership, continuous improvement, psychological safety, and learning from mistakes. These videos are meant to support reflection and practical application—not just passive viewing—across healthcare, manufacturing, and knowledge work.
Topics range from executive leadership behaviors and Kaizen to Deming, Toyota, and building cultures where people feel safe to speak up and improve.
I recently stumbled across a very interesting and well-produced mixed-media presentation that starts with the sounds of snow crackling under a pair a boots… a video clip that illustrates Delvecchio Finley, the CEO of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, making a snowy trip…
PBS has aired a documentary about an Emergency Department in East Oakland, CA. You can visit the website for the film and you can also view it via YouTube: It’s a very spartan documentary… sometimes dull and routine, sometimes compelling.…
I’ve partnered up with the Ohio-based non-profit consulting group, TechSolve, over the past few years in some of their Lean healthcare promotions efforts, recently teaching some classes with them on Lean and Kaizen in healthcare. One of their team members,…
Here’s a funny ESPN commercial featuring PGA golfer Rickie Fowler. Fowler is pouring coffee, yet he makes some bad assumptions about which coffee is decaf and about the “milk” being bad (compounded by the joke that he’s supposedly color blind).…
Here’s a video produced about some work that Toyota’s TSSC did for a New York City food bank, applying Toyota Production System principles to help provide more food to those in need after “Superstorm Sandy.” The video demonstrates how creative…
Below is a very nice video that was produced by Franciscan St. Francis Health System, the organization where my Healthcare Kaizen co-author Joe Swartz is the Director of Business Transformation. The video was made for use related to our book’s…
A Toyota employee, pictured at left, pulls an andon cord in a video shared by Toyota UK: Factory to Forecourt – Introduction to the Toyota Production System. As the video explains, “every team member has the right to stop the…
This video was uploaded to YouTube in the middle of 2012, but I just got tipped off to it. It’s an 11-minute video from Nemours, a children’s health care system. Watching this video that provides an overview of their improvement…
There is a wonderful two-hour video of Dr. W. Edwards Deming addressing a university in Connecticut back in 1990. There’s so much wisdom in what he says… but some have impatience, hin this fast-paced ADD day and age, for what…
It’s awesome that Eric Ries puts the video content from The Lean Startup Conference online each year. He’s just uploaded some videos to his YouTube channel, with more to come (including video of my “Ignite” session talk on Lean Healthcare…
Kevin, from BC, shared this video with me about Lean healthcare. It’s only 2.5 minutes long and it has a fun visual style. I’ll give it +1 for focusing on improving being driven by the people who do the work.…
Here is video #8 in our series of short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team (see the whole series here). We’re also making the videos available on our YouTube Channel and our education videos playlist.…
