Leadership and ManagementLean, Green and Agile Thinking for Leaders
Efficiency, environmental performance and responsiveness are usually pursued by separate functions with conflicting measures. This course examines where they genuinely reinforce one another and where they do not. Delegates work through the overlap between waste reduction and emissions reduction, the tension between lean inventory and supply resilience, agility and the buffer it requires, and the leadership decisions that resolve these trade offs rather than pretending they do not exist. The course is honest that the three are frequently presented as mutually supporting when in specific decisions they are not, and works on making that trade off explicitly.
Course objectives
- Identify where waste reduction and emissions reduction genuinely align
- Recognise the tension between lean inventory and supply resilience
- Assess the buffer that agility actually requires
- Make trade offs between efficiency, sustainability and responsiveness explicit
- Set measures across the three that do not conflict
- Decide where each objective should take precedence
- Communicate a trade off decision to functions that disagree
Who should attend
- Senior operations and supply chain leaders
- Sustainability and environmental managers
- Continuous improvement leaders
- General managers and directors
- Strategy and planning professionals
Course outline
- 01Three objectives, usually pursued separately
- 02Where waste and emissions reduction align
- 03Lean inventory against supply resilience
- 04Agility and the buffer it requires
- 05Making trade offs explicit
- 06Measures across the three that do not conflict
- 07Deciding precedence
- 08Communicating the decision to functions that disagree
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 to 6 October 2026 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 8 to 10 October 2026 | Mbabane, Eswatini | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 26 to 28 October 2026 | London, United Kingdom | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |