Graham Canning
Founding Partner
Graham has worked in lean and kaizen consultancy roles for more than 15 years. Before that, he spent 15 years in the manufacturing sector for companies like Toyota, Black+Decker and Pilkington.
Graham has an impressive record in leading lean transformations in various industries, including healthcare and financial services. He’s developed a passion for – and an academic interest in – coaching leaders to be successful in a lean environment.
Graham has presented a paper at the European Lean Educators Conference (ELEC) in Portugal and is one of a select number of consultants accredited to Level 3b in the Lean Competency System.
Always at the forefront of emerging lean thinking, he has a reputation as a skilled practitioner of the Toyota Kata approach to improvement and people-development.
Graham is a founding member of Kata School UK and has led a research workstream for the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) on the successful use of kata in organisations. And he’s co-authored, with Ann Hill, a chapter on Applying Kata in Healthcare for the book, International Examples of Lean in Healthcare. Plus, he has a master’s degree in manufacturing leadership from Lancaster Management School.
Industry/sector experience includes: automotive, food and drink, aerospace, construction, printing, healthcare, financial services, insurance and retail.
