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Meet Catherine Chabiron. As a Lean Sensei (master) with 40 years of experience and an author of multiple books and articles on lean methodology, she shares how to reinvent company culture and foster greater employee engagement in the face of growth.
Joined by Fabrice Bernhard, CTO & Co-Founder of TheoDo.
Catherine Chabiron is an established expert in Lean management with a professional journey spanning over 40 years. She has accumulated valuable experience in a range of service and support functions, including IT, Logistics, Sales, Finance, and HR, both in France and globally.
Her expertise in Lean thinking has been largely shaped by her experiences within the automotive industry, where she has lived and breathed the Lean philosophy. This has been further enriched by her regular visits to the Toyota supply chain in Japan, an experience that has offered her unique insights and an in-depth understanding of how a learning culture operates.
Catherine is not only a Lean executive coach but also a renowned author. Her notable contribution, “Learning to Scale at Theodo Group: Growing a Fast and Resilient Company,” exemplifies her unique know-how and offers practical advice to leaders seeking growth without compromising on core values and employee engagement.
Catherine Chabiron is an established expert in Lean management with a professional journey spanning over 40 years. She has accumulated valuable experience in a range of service and support functions, including IT, Logistics, Sales, Finance, and HR, both in France and globally.
Her expertise in Lean thinking has been largely shaped by her experiences within the automotive industry, where she has lived and breathed the Lean philosophy. This has been further enriched by her regular visits to the Toyota supply chain in Japan, an experience that has offered her unique insights and an in-depth understanding of how a learning culture operates.
Catherine is not only a Lean executive coach but also a renowned author. Her notable contribution, “Learning to Scale at Theodo Group: Growing a Fast and Resilient Company,” exemplifies her unique know-how and offers practical advice to leaders seeking growth without compromising on core values and employee engagement.
If you invite Catherine on your podcast, she will be joined by TheoDo CTO & Co-Founder Fabrice Bernhard:
He co-founded Theodo in Paris in 2009, which has grown on average 50% a year for the last 8 years and generated 90M€ turnover in 2022. He is now based in London to help on the international expansion.
Any fast-growing company eventually develops the Big Company Disease – a change in internal dynamics dramatically slowing down growth. Scaling up successfully is the ultimate challenge of any bootstrapped business.
Learning to Scale at Theodo Group is a deep dive into a lastingly fast-growing lean scale-up company.
Back in 2022, the Theodo Group, which was founded in 2009, boasted a workforce of 600 individuals spread across 10 companies. They generated a turnover of 90M€. Even after 13 years of operation, they continued to showcase impressive growth, a testament to their Lean strategy, which is inspired by the Toyota Production System.
Exploring the issues any company faces on a daily basis – finding a product-market fit, managing sales, recruitment, maintaining a technical edge – the book follows the path of a lean sensei, Catherine Chabiron, as she observes how teams deal with creating a sense of purpose, picking the right challenges and fostering a learning culture.
Learning to Scale at Theodo Group is a companion field book to Régis Medina’s 2020 bestseller Learning to Scale, acclaimed by thousands in the French tech world.
In an era of rapid corporate expansion, companies often fall into the trap of complexity by excessively focusing on data and internal bureaucracy. This leads to organizational silos, hampered communication, and detachment from customer needs. Consequently, employees feel disenchanted, and the societal impact of the company diminishes.
On your podcast, Catherine, with 40 years of management experience and expertise in Lean Thinking from observing Toyota’s supply chain, will offer practical insights on fostering a learning culture in organizations. Potentially joined by Fabrice Bernhard, co-Founder of Theodo, she will address breaking barriers to create a hands-on, value-driven approach that emphasizes customer and employee engagement.
When a business scales, it often gets stuck in a maze of rules and tasks. The bigger it grows, the more rules there are, and the less it focuses on making great products. Instead of exploring new ideas and learning, everything becomes about ticking boxes and following procedures. This shift of focus from making amazing products to just getting things done could be hurting the business more than we realize.
On your podcast, Catherine will provide insights on how to locate value, agree on customer obsessions, and create a nimble and informed culture, despite the complex environment. Potentially joined by Fabrice Bernhard, co-Founder of Theodo, she’ll delve into strategies that can help teams focus on keeping customers happy and creating quality products, regardless of their position or the size of their company.
As companies expand, bureaucratic practices often disengage employees, making it difficult to maintain a healthy and fun culture. Individual roles can seem disconnected from the company’s larger challenges, eroding trust and job satisfaction. This issue is further exacerbated when employees are expected to execute tasks that seem meaningless or unrelated to major challenges, stripping away the fun and happiness in the workplace.
On your podcast, Catherine will share strategies to improve employee engagement in growing businesses. She’ll discuss the importance of rebuilding trust by simplifying tasks and promptly resolving employee issues. Moreover, she’ll explain how management can listen effectively, making employees feel valued by linking their roles to the company’s larger challenges, thereby transforming work into a more meaningful and fulfilling experience.
If there is a specific topic you would like Catherine to focus on during the interview that is not listed here, please do let us know.
We would be more than happy to run this by Catherine to see if she was able to talk in detail and deliver value to your audience.