Enable leaders with the skills to lead teams in a culture of continuous improvement.
Who We Have Helped
Get Better Results Through Your Employees
Do you view your people as a competitive advantage but struggle to achieve your vision through them?
- The people aspect isn’t clear or detailed enough to work
- Strategies lack vision for how to truly optimize the workforce
- Leaders’ behaviors are focused on control instead of allowing people to grow
- HR systems are designed for outdated top-down management

GET BETTER RESULTS THROUGH YOUR EMPLOYEES
Do you view your people as a competitive advantage but struggle to achieve your vision through them?
- The people aspect isn’t clear or detailed enough to work
- Strategies lack vision for how to truly optimize the workforce
- Leaders’ behaviors are focused on control instead of allowing people to grow
- HR systems are designed for outdated top-down management
Getting Started
The Lean Leadership Center partners with organizational leaders in many ways:
CEOs and
People Centric
Leaders
Human
Resources
Leaders
Meet Cheryl Jekiel – CEO of the Lean Leadership Center
I know from experience that too many Lean organizations aren’t maximizing the human potential, skills and abilities, creativity and talent of their workforce.
When I fell madly in love with continuous improvement, my experiences touched me so deeply that I’ve never wanted to work with anything else (and that was 30 years ago).
The coolest thing about Lean is the way it gives people more opportunity to spread their wings and contribute more of their talents to their work, and that is eminently more life-affirming.
Lean isn’t just a way to work more efficiently; it’s a way to truly engage your people, and that changes everything.
Lean Leadership Resources
Lean Human Resources
Book by Cheryl M. Jekiel
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