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Reflections on Leadership

Reflections on Leadership

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EP 66 - Leadership Is Practice What It Takes to Lead Transformation as Responsibility Grows

Leadership Is Practice: What It Takes to Lead Transformation as Responsibility Grows

Episode 66 - Why sustainable change starts with how leaders show up? For many leaders, there’s a moment when doing great improvement work—or having the right answers—no longer moves the...
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EP65 - From Learning to Impact Turn Insight into Leadership Action

From Learning to Impact: Turn Insight into Leadership Action

Episode 65 - Learning is rarely the problem. Most change leaders and improvement practitioners I work with are deeply committed to learning. They’re curious. They invest in themselves. They read...
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EP 64 - Stop Doing Transformation—and Start Enabling It Redefine Your Role as a Change Leader

Stop Doing Transformation—and Start Enabling It: Redefine Your Role as a Change Leader with Jill Forrester

Episode 64 - What if the reason leading your organization’s transformation feels heavy isn’t the work itself—but how you’re showing up as a change leader? If you’re a change leader,...
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EP 63 - Close the Sustainability Execution Gap How Leaders Turn Intent into Action

Close the Sustainability Execution Gap: How Leaders Turn Intent into Action with Rose Heathcote

Episode 63 - When organizations talk about sustainability, good intentions are rarely the problem. Execution is. For many leaders, sustainability still gets reduced to end-of-the-line solutions—like recycling—rather than addressed as...
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EP62 - Remove the Muda to Reveal the Buddha Turning Life’s Weight Into Wisdom

Remove the Muda to Reveal the Buddha: Turning Life’s Weight Into Wisdom

Episode 62 - What if the weight you’re carrying isn’t holding you back—but pointing you forward? So many of us move through our days carrying more than we realize: unfinished...
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EP 61 - Reflections from the Japan Leadership Experience Live from Tokyo with Nick Kemp

Reflections from the Japan Leadership Experience: Live from Tokyo with Nick Kemp

Episode 61 - Have you ever stepped outside your daily routine and suddenly seen your work—or yourself—with new clarity? Often the most meaningful leadership breakthroughs don’t happen when we push...
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EP 60-Bounce Back From a Faceplant How to Flip the Script on Failure with Melisa Buie and Keeley Hurley

Bounce Back From a Faceplant: How to Flip the Script on Failure with Melisa Buie and Keeley Hurley

Episode 60 - We’ve all had that moment when something falls apart. The project that slips away, the meeting that derails, the opportunity that doesn’t materialize. We tend to call...
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Japan Leadership Experience November 2025 Highlight

Japan Leadership Experience Highlights: November 2025

What is an immersive lean leadership Japan tour all about? For the leaders who join my Japan Leadership Experience, it’s much more than learning the technical side of lean and...
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EP 59 - Get Better at Getting Better Leveraging AI to Elevate Human Learning

Get Better at Getting Better: Leveraging AI to Elevate Human Learning with Nathen Harvey

Episode 59 - AI is everywhere. And its use and capabilities are accelerating every day. But is AI actually helping us get better at getting better? Or is it just...
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Leading to Learn®: Become a Katalyst™ for Continuous Learning — Keynote on Intentional Leadership

Thriving in today’s world requires more than tools or tactics; it demands a culture of continuous learning, grounded in scientific thinking and deep respect for people. In my keynote, Leading...
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People First: Why Leaders Get It Backwards with Lean and Operational Excellence

Episode 58 - Where is your primary focus as a leader, change practitioner, or organization? Getting business results? Improving processes? Or developing people? What if the real key to lasting...
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Episode 57 | How GE CEO Larry Culp Leads with Lean to Build a Culture of Continuous Improvements

How GE CEO Larry Culp Leads with Lean to Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Episode 57 - What does it really take to become lean—not just do lean? This is the secret to transformational lean leadership that Larry Culp, CEO of GE and GE...
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Japan Leadership Experience November 2025 Highlight

Japan Leadership Experience Highlights: November 2025

What is an immersive lean leadership Japan tour all about? For the leaders who join my Japan Leadership Experience, it’s much more than learning the technical side of lean and operational excellence. It’s a journey of leadership and exploring the essence of respect for people: “holding precious what it means to be human.”

My Japan Leadership Experience is unlike any traditional study tour. It’s an immersive journey into the heart of lean, the essence of people-centered leadership, and the cultural practices that make Japan a living classroom for learning and transformation.

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December 1, 2025

Leading to Learn®: Become a Katalyst™ for Continuous Learning — Keynote on Intentional Leadership

Thriving in today’s world requires more than tools or tactics; it demands a culture of continuous learning, grounded in scientific thinking and deep respect for people. In my keynote, Leading to Learn®: Become a Katalyst™ for Continuous Learning,  I share how you can become a Katalyst™—a change leader who accelerates learning as the engine for improvement and transformation.

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November 24, 2025
Group of international leaders participating in the Japan Leadership Experience program led by Katie Anderson

Japan Leadership Experience Highlights: May 2025

What happens when leaders from around the world step away from their daily routines and immerse themselves in the birthplace of lean, continuous improvement, and people-centered leadership? In May 2025, I had the privilege of leading Cohort 7 of my Japan Leadership Experience—an extraordinary week of learning, connection, and transformation alongside 18 global leaders and 81-year-old Toyota leader Isao Yoshino.

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May 26, 2025

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