ANNOTATION
Lean Leadership
This course is designed for leaders aiming to foster a culture of continuous improvement within their organizations, and is aimed at developing leaders who are capable of enacting new ways of working to both evolve the way they lead and guide the way their teams act and behave.
Covering a range of topics from complexity and complex adaptive systems to Lean Thinking and capacity planning, the course will provide insights into recognizing weak signals, enhancing horizontal communication across silos, practical strategies for problem-solving, measuring outcomes, and creating conducive environments for continuous improvement.
The intent of this course is that leaders will emerge from it with a determination to turn what has been learned into immediate actions to lead improvement.
Join Nigel Thurlow, the former Chief of Agile at Toyota and the creator of Scrum The Toyota Way as he takes you on a journey of leadership improvement. From kaizen to human factors, covering topics from Complexity Thinking, Distributed Leadership, and Team Science, all underpinned by his decades of expertise in Toyota and Lean approaches.
Nigel Thurlow
Nigel previously served as the first-ever Chief of Agile at Toyota, where he created the World Agility Forum award-winning “Scrum the Toyota Way” and co-created The Flow System™, a holistic FLOW-based approach to delivering customer-first value built on a foundation of The Toyota Production System. He has also taught Scrum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
While at Toyota, Thurlow worked to frame Scrum as more than just a standardized behavioral process by applying and advancing fundamental methodologies to spur innovative, forward-thinking solutions to Toyota’s most complex challenges. He also founded the Toyota Agile Academy in 2018. These efforts signaled a transformative phase for Toyota, leading the company towards organizational agility and helping its team members better understand this concept in an automotive production context.
Thurlow is currently the Chief Executive Officer at The Flow Consortium, a collection of highly regarded companies in the Lean and Agile world — as well as the scientific and academic communities at large. The Flow Consortium strives to expand the boundaries of current Lean and Agile thinking through the understanding of complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science by tapping into the minds of top thought leaders from these concentrations.
As an author, Thurlow was named a Forbes top 10 author for co-authoring the book “The Flow System™” in 2020. He has recently co-authored “The Flow System Playbook” published in 2023 which presents a practical study guide and reference book to all the concepts covered in the first book.
Go to nigelthurlow.com for his complete biography.