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Author: Katie Anderson

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 66| Leadership Is Practice: What It Takes to Lead Transformation as Responsibility Grows [with Carlos Scholz]

What does it really take to lead transformation as responsibility grows? At some point, leadership stops being about doing the improvement work or having the right answers. For operational leaders …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 65| From Learning to Impact: Turn Insight into Leadership Action

What if the reason your learning feels productive—but your impact feels stuck—has nothing to do with effort? Many change leaders and improvement practitioners are excellent learners. You’re likely a Learning …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 64| Stop Doing Transformation—and Start Enabling It: Redefine Your Role as a Change Leader [with Jill Forrester]

What if the reason leading your organization’s transformation feels heavy isn’t the work itself—but the role you’ve been playing as a change leader? If you’re a change leader, continuous improvement …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 63| Close the Execution Gap: How Leaders Turn Sustainability Intent into Action [with Rose Heathcote]

Many major transformations, including lean and sustainability—don’t stall because leaders don’t care. They stall because of an execution gap: the gap between what organizations say matters and what actually shows …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 62| Remove the Muda to Reveal the Buddha: Turning Life’s Weight from Waste Into Wisdom

What if the very thing weighing on you right now is the key to your next level of growth? Many of us carry more than we realize: unfinished goals, unmet …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 61| Reflections from the Japan Leadership Experience: Live from Tokyo [with Nick Kemp] (BONUS)

Have you ever stepped outside your routine and suddenly seen your work—or yourself—with fresh clarity? Sometimes the most meaningful leadership breakthroughs happen when we pause and immerse ourselves in a …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 60| Bounce Back From a Faceplant: How to Flip the Script on Failure [with Melisa Buie and Keeley Hurley]

We all know that moment where something falls apart. A project slips. A conversation goes sideways. The promotion doesn’t happen. We call it “failure,” but it’s often not the mistake …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 59| Get Better at Getting Better: Leveraging AI to Elevate Human Learning [with Nathen Harvey]

AI is everywhere. And its use and capabilities are accelerating every day.  But is AI actually helping us get better at getting better?  Or is it just amplifying the friction, …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 58| People First: Why Leaders Get It Backwards with Lean and Operational Excellence

Where is your primary focus as a leader, change practitioner, or organization?  Getting business results?  Improving processes?  Or developing people?  What if the real key to lasting business success isn’t …

Katie Anderson

Chain of Learning: 57| How GE CEO Larry Culp Leads with Lean to Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement (BONUS)

What does it really take to become lean—not just do lean? This is the secret to transformational lean leadership that Larry Culp, CEO of GE and GE Aerospace shared with …

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