Fabrice Bernhard didn't study lean and then apply it -- he built a company and discovered, under pressure, that Toyota's thinking was the only framework that actually scaled. Starting Theodo as a student project in Paris, he grew it into a 700-person, €100M consultancy spanning London, New York, and beyond, while resisting the organizational entropy that usually accompanies that kind of growth. The insight at the center of that work -- that Agile works beautifully for individual teams but offers no real framework for coordinating hundreds of people -- became the thesis of The Lean Tech Manifesto, which he co-authored and which won the 2024 Shingo Publication Award. As Group CTO of Theodo, he brings a founder's discipline to LEI's LeanTech initiative: not what lean should look like in theory, but what it actually takes to make it stick at scale.