Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
Hosted by Mark Graban and Mark · Mark Graban
4.7from 51 ratings
- 589
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 51
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2006
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations features thoughtful, in-depth discussions with leaders, authors, executives, and practitioners who are applying Lean thinking in the real world. Hosted by Mark Graban—author of Lean Hospitals, Measures of Success, and The Mistakes That Make Us—the podcast explores Lean as a management system, a leadership philosophy, and a people-centered approach to continuous improvement. Episodes span healthcare, manufacturing, startups, technology, and professional services. Guests share candid stories about what actually works—and what doesn’t—when organizations try to improve. This is not a podcast about chasing tools, jargon, or “Lean theater.” Instead, you’ll hear honest conversations about leadership behaviors, culture, psychological safety, learning from mistakes, and building systems that help people do their best work. If you believe improvement starts with respect for people—and that better systems beat blaming individuals—this podcast is for you. Find show notes and all episodes at LeanCast.org (https://leancast.org/). Learn more about Mark Graban at MarkGraban.com (http://markgraban.com/).
- Publisher
- Mark Graban
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Jul 2006
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
19 of 589 episodes have a transcript.
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Emily Swaney on OhioHealth's Lean Management System
5 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Karen Martin: Five Conversations, 20 Years
16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
20 Years of the Lean Blog Podcast: Norman Bodek on Quick and Easy Kaizen
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Emily Swaney on OhioHealth's Lean Management System
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And there are roughly how many leaders to try to help influence, educate, coach, whatever words you might use there? Yeah. So while there's 35,000 associates, there's about 1,500 leaders. And so I'm glad you asked because I would say our team specifically and how we're developing that management system, we're really trying to hone in and specifically focus on the ratio of 11 people on the team influencing 1500 versus 11 people influencing 35,000. So our investment really been in developing these leaders. So they feel confident that they can build a culture on their teams where their people are never satisfied with the status quo, where their people feel capable of being problem solvers and where they have this status quo. standard tools and resources ultimately available to them and that are easily available to them. […]
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- Emily Swaney
- Karen Martin
- Norman Bodek
- Thomas Cox
- Andre DeMerchant
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- YouTube views
- 1,244,382
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 47 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100
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- Quality
- 54
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 92
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