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Reflections on Leadership

Reflections on Leadership

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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...
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...
Episode 57 | How GE CEO Larry Culp Leads with Lean to Build a Culture of Continuous Improvements
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...
EP56 - Slow Down to Speed Up The Power of the Pause to Accelerate Continuous Learning
Episode 56 - Do you find yourself racing from meeting to meeting, rushing through tasks, or filling every silence with your own voice? In our doing-oriented culture, pausing feels uncomfortable—even...
EP 55 - Adopt the Mentor Mindset - How to Motivate, Guide and Develop the Next Generation with David Yeager
Episode 55 - How do you motivate, coach, or lead someone younger—without sounding critical, nagging, or controlling? We’ve all heard the stereotypes: “Young people don’t care.” “They’re entitled.” “They can’t...
Episode 54 - Recently I joined my friend and business coach Betsy Jordyn for not just one, but two conversations, about positioning for impact as a consultant, coach, or lean...
Episode 53 - Ikigai is one of the hottest buzzwords in leadership and personal development. When you think of ikigai, what do you envision? Is it the popular Venn diagram...
What We Love About Lean and Operational Excellence — And Our #1 Frustration
Episode 52 - What’s the #1 frustration most lean and continuous improvement practitioners face? It's something that I bet you've felt too, no matter how passionate you are about the...
Intentional Leadership in Action | international leadership habits

I was honored to be invited as a guest on a special episode of the Comcast + Sky TV Leadership Podcast—a high-level internal series typically reserved for senior executives across...

EP 51 Elevate Your Impact Beyond Tools The Problem-Solver’s Toolkit
Episode 51 — It’s a problem I’ve seen over and over again—and I bet you have too. Organizations invest thousands of dollars and countless hours into lean, Six Sigma, and...
Episode 50 Change the Culture NUMMI and the Power of Leading Through Influence, Not Authority with Isao Yoshino
Episode 50 - Change the culture! That’s exactly what longtime Toyota leader Isao Yoshino was tasked with during one of the most famous business transformations in history—NUMMI—Toyota’s joint venture with...
Ep49 - Shift Your Mindset, Shift Your Impact 3 Reframes for Positive Leadership
Episode 49 - When you encounter challenges or setbacks, and it feels like things just aren’t going your way, it’s easy to get caught into a downward negative spiral. But...
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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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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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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Learning to Lead Leading to Learn Book

Top 10 Toyota Leadership Lessons

Receive a PDF of the first top 10 leadership lessons and insights that I learned from Mr. Isao Yoshino, a leader at Toyota for over 40 years. These lessons and more inspired us to create the bestselling book “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn.”

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