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Lean Summit 2025 was one for the books! ??OhioHealth’s CEO Stephen Markovich, MD was able to join John Toussaint in a keynote panel discussion to highlight how OhioHealth’s management system brings value to him and his senior leadership team. ??OhioHealth’s Alli Kulp was the recipient of the Nate Hurle scholarship recognizing her tenacity, commitment to sharing her lean knowledge, and her passion for continuous improvement ???? Gary Peterson, my #MBOE coach and mentor was also a keynote speaker, highlighting the incredible results that come with employee empowerment ?? Alli Kulp and I led 175 learners in a breakout session, sharing our approach to scaling lean across 35,000 members of the OhioHealth family with a small lean team of 11 Thankful for new connections, new learnings, and an amazing lean community! #leanenterpriseinstitute #lei #catalysis #leansummit2025 #lean Lean Enterprise Institute Catalysis Inc.

Lean Summit 2025, you were the bee’s knees. We had the opportunity to hear our CEO, Stephen Markovich, MD speak to a cross-industry audience about the impact and importance of OhioHealth’s management system. Emily Swaney and I led a packed session sharing how we support our goal of creating 35,000 problem solvers with a small but mighty lean team. I am honored to have been the recipient of the 2025 Nate Hurle Scholarship, which enabled us to bring more talent from our team to learn at the summit. Wins all around! Many connections were made, and thought-provoking conversations had. Special thanks to the Catalysis Inc. and Lean Enterprise Institute staff for making this event so value-added! Melanie Yoder Thomas Reighard Sarah Powell

What does participatory design have to do with lean product and process development (LPPD)? Read all about it in our story on Imara Tech, a decade-long MIT D-Lab project to develop and improve a mechanized thresher with subsistence farmers in Tanzania. The transformative multi-grain thresher (MCT) turned what used to take two to three weeks of manual labor into hours of mechanical work. Why does this matter? Approximately 80 percent of Tanzania’s 67 million people are small-scale subsistence farmers, cultivating plots of less than three hectares, mainly for their consumption rather than commercial markets. The MCT minimizes crop losses and damage during harvesting, improving incomes and economic stability. ?? https://bit.ly/4ibMiWA #ParticipatoryDesign #ProductDevelopment #Lean #LeanThinking #Engineering #LPPD

Wow! What an amazing week of learning and connecting at the #LeanSummit2025! Thank you to everyone who joined us in Atlanta and all the wonderful speakers who shared their stories! We will be busy reflecting on all we learned. Catalysis Inc.

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I'm here! Excited for all the great sessions and discussions ahead over the next three days! #leansummit2025 Lean Enterprise Institute

Reunited in person with John Shook for the first time since “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn” was published 5 years ago. This first week of March 2020 - LEí (like most conferences and gatherings) cancelled their annual conference slated to run just a few weeks later (Masia G. and I tonight reminisced about our conversation 5 years ago). At that event I was going to announce the upcoming release of my book — written about John’s first boss at Toyota, Isao Yoshino, and his 4 decades at Toyota shaping the Toyota Way, #hoshinkanri, and A3 thinking. So much has happened since then. We pivoted. We adjusted. We carried on. And thankfully we are back in person together. I’m grateful to have graced the stages at many lean and continuous improvement events around the world and excited to be reunited with my colleagues here in the U.S. (and those who have traveled from around the world). I’m looking forward to a great two days of #lean thinking and practice at the #LeanSummit2025 here in Atlanta hosted by Lean Enterprise Institute and Catalysis Inc. The future of lean is with us. Let’s reflect on the principles and keep building our Chain of Learning into the future. And for those of you at the Summit - come say hi! I’ll be signing books by the bookstore on Wednesday 5pm. Lean Enterprise Institute Hungary Lean Institute Brasil @lean institute colombia Institut Lean France Lean Enterprise Institute Poland Lean Institute Chile

Lean knows no borders! ?? Great to meet incredible?#lean thought leaders and authors?from around the world at the?Lean Summit in Atlanta. ???Katie Anderson, so glad we finally met in person! Excited to dive into your book,?"Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn", and explore ways to bring its insights further to the French community. ???Christopher Granville Thompson, always a pleasure catching up and discussing lean in tech and digital! Curious to hear what your take is on AI (and why it’s overrated as the best productivity solution ;-). With?France, the US, and Brazil?represented, it's a reminder that?the world needs more lean, across industries, cultures, and borders. #LeanIsAwesome everywhere! ?? ?? Who else is here at the summit? Let's connect! #leansummit2025 Lean Enterprise Institute Institut Lean France

A full house at the Lean Summit in Atlanta! About to start :-). Lean Enterprise Institute

"We forgot our way" "We forgot we were human". Honest and inspiring talk by GE Appliances, a Haier company. Lean Enterprise Institute #leansummit2025