LeanTalk.org is an independent publishing organization dedicated to making technology, innovation, and human creativity more accessible.
We believe that many of the world’s most valuable ideas remain undiscovered—not because they lack quality, but because they often struggle to compete for attention. Our mission is to help outstanding ideas, creators, and stories reach the audiences they deserve.
Through podcasts, publications, educational resources, and community initiatives, LeanTalk.org creates content that informs, inspires curiosity, and encourages lifelong learning.
Open Podcast Awards
What if the world’s best podcast award wasn’t judged by experts… but by podcasters themselves? Discover a new community-powered approach to recognizing exceptional podcasts—where every creator helps uncover the next great show.
Every submission becomes an opportunity to receive meaningful feedback, discover remarkable new voices, and earn recognition based on the quality of your work — not the size of your audience.
Welcome to a new generation of podcast awards, built by creators, for creators.
the quest for innovation
An industry-wide search for the best improvement and innovation approaches
Sarcastic and inspiring, from real stories to unbelievable fiction, a book to self-reflect on how process improvement is done.
For an ever faster changing world, where short-term gains too often overweight long-term purposes.
A wake-up call on how we look at innovation in Operational Excellence and Lean.
The manufacturing deck
The Manufacturing Deck is a deck of cards beautifully designed to contain the main concepts for excellence in manufacturing. The deck contains 48 methods, tools and principles applied in manufacturing industries and a set of game instructions to experience these concepts in practice.
Tech stories Podcast
Tech Stories is a storytelling podcast that uncovers the hidden human stories behind the technologies we use every day. Each episode takes listeners on a journey through the lives of inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries whose ideas changed the course of history—often despite facing skepticism, rejection, or failure. From the barcode and the shipping container to Linux and artificial intelligence, the podcast explores not just how technology works, but why it matters, how it reshaped society, and what it teaches us about innovation, creativity, and the courage to challenge conventional thinking. Presented in a unique dialogue between a human host and an AI co-host, Tech Stories offers a fresh perspective on the inventions that quietly transformed the world.
Heidenheim / Germany
info@leantalk.org