Developing the Next Generation of Lean Leaders

Your Lean culture lasts only as long as your people can carry it. Project-level tools get you started. Intentional capability development keeps you going. In this session, you'll see how to build your next generation of Lean leaders by connecting field coaching, leadership development, and experiential education into one coordinated learning system.

Drawing on an industry-academic collaboration, you learn practical ways to align mentorship, structured reflection, and leadership reinforcement across the field, the office, and the classroom.

What you'll walk away with: A practical model.
Design a Lean Learning Continuum that connects field coaching, leadership development, and experiential education, so your capability building runs as a system instead of a series of one-off training events.

Mentorship that sticks. Set up structured mentorship pairings that embed Lean behaviors in your daily planning routines, including facilitated constraint reviews and reflective learning cycles.

Leadership that reinforces itself. Build psychological safety and decentralized decision-making into your leadership development programs, with consistent reinforcement across every role.

Metrics that pull in the same direction. Align project-level measures like planning reliability and constraint ownership with your talent development goals. Capability building supports your strategy and stops competing with delivery pressure.

A bridge from classroom to field. Use industry partnerships, experiential learning, and structured reflection assignments that mirror real project conditions.

The result? Repeatable learning pathways that grow your future Lean leaders on purpose, not by chance.

Presenter: Esra Tepeli, Clinical Assistant Professor of Construction Management, Purdue University

Please note, this event is open to LCI members only.