Lean Expert, Lean Author and Co-founder at Sempai.

Russell designed and ran multi-site lean programmes for companies such as the Toyota Group. He created the JCB Production System and established Lean Academies for two £bn global manufacturing businesses and is the author of Adventures in Leanland.

He is a speaker, a manufacturing awards judge and he likes a craft beer or two. If he could judge craft brewers' lean processes while tasting the beers, he'd be a happy man.