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Edwin Proper
Edwin Proper is an Australian Lean culture coach and founder of ProperGrowth Group, helping small businesses build engagement and continuous improvement through daily leadership habits.
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Oct 6, 2026
Stop Managing Lean. Start Growing People.
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Andy OlrichHOST
... what are some of those things that you've seen and, and y- and obviously you, you believe are, are valuable and you try to instill in the leaders that you work with?
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13:31Edwin ProperGUEST
So there, I, I did a, um, the Sutherland Lean Consortium invited me out for, uh, uh, to talk, uh, be a keynote speaker there in April this year, and that was one of my talks.
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13:42Edwin ProperGUEST
Uh, if, if you wanna hear more about this, you can go on my YouTube channel and I've got a, a video there.
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13:47Edwin ProperGUEST
But in, in essence, there, there's three things that I got from a book, um, called "The Culture Code," uh, by Daniel Coyle, and he talks about, uh, building safety, sharing vulnerability, and establishing purpose.
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22:47Edwin ProperGUEST
so that something else I thought was a strength of you guys is your concentration on flow You know, you've put value stream managers in place and you know spending a lot of time with them Understand why they are so important crucial in this this role because Traditionally, it's like, okay, this department does this, this department does this, and nobody's linking that chain.
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23:12Edwin ProperGUEST
Now you say, okay, we want you to take responsibility from start to finish and connect all those departments.
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23:19Edwin ProperGUEST
Because essentially they do need to be, they are working in silos, but how do you connect them? A lot of businesses don't do that, that are going to, they still work in those silos.
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23:28Edwin ProperGUEST
So you've done a really great job with training your value stream managers, and they're still learning.
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