Ever-So-Lean Podcast
The Ever-So-Lean Podcast is the destination for exploring how people-focused leadership and continuous improvement lead to high performance.
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How do we Prove the True Value of Continuous Improvement? (opens the original)
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UKNCI Live: When can we say a CI benefit has been delivered? If you work in Continuous Improvement, you’ll probably recognise the feeling of having to justify your role again and again. People want to know what’s been saved, what’s improved and when they’ll see the return. But meaningful change doesn’t always show up in the numbers straight away. In this episode, Matt Sims, Maxine Wood and Stuart Robertson are joined by Nikki Libera to tackle a question Nikki brought to the UKNCI community: When
What's the Biggest Challenge Facing Continuous Improvement Organisations in the UK Right Now? (opens the original)
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What’s the biggest challenge facing Continuous Improvement in UK organisations right now? In this episode of the Ever-So-Lean Podcast, we bring you the first ever UKNCI LIVE, originally broadcast live across the UK Continuous Improvement community. Joining the conversation are UKNCI Founders Matt Sims, Maxine Wood and Stuart Robertson, bringing different experiences and perspectives to a question that affects CI professionals across every sector. There are no slides, no presentations and no sugg
Continuous Improvement Has a Community Problem (opens the original)
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Who do you turn to when you’re the improvement person? Continuous Improvement can be a surprisingly lonely place. You spend your time helping others solve problems, challenging thinking, building capability and trying to create change. But who do you talk to when you need to bounce around an idea, share a challenge or simply speak to someone who understands what you do? In this episode of the Ever-So-Lean Podcast, I’m joined by Maxine Wood and Stuart Robertson for an open conversation about some
The Secret to Scaling Continuous Improvement (opens the original)
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Why do so many continuous improvement programmes start with real energy, deliver some great early results, and then struggle when it comes to scaling? In this episode of the Ever-So-Lean Podcast, I’m joined by Chris Dando, CEO of Reinvigoration Group, for a really open conversation about what it actually takes to make improvement stick. Chris has spent more than 20 years working in Lean and operational improvement across hundreds of organisations, and we get into some of the patterns we’ve both
LCS Conference & Awards 2026: Meet the Speakers (opens the original)
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In this special (Live not Live) episode of the Ever-So-Lean Podcast, I’m joined by Lean Competency System 2026 Conference Speakers, Beth Lee Wilson from The University of Manchester, Bart van Waes from Leanprofs and Leon Hardwick from OpX.io, ahead of this year’s LCS Conference & Awards in Manchester on September 23rd.. We get a preview of what each of them will be bringing to the conference, but the conversation quickly goes much wider. We talk about why brilliant improvement work so often stay
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