High Five Friday Feature: Sylvain Landry & Marc-Olivier Legentil
- Deondra Wardelle
- May 13, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 2, 2025
Our High Five Friday theme for May celebrates colossal collaborations, powerful partnerships, and dynamic duos who are using their gifts and talents to brighten the lives of others through education.
Join me in celebrating today's #HighFiveFriday Feature: Sylvain Landry and Marc-Olivier Legentil, MSc.
Sylvain is a professor at HEC Montreal in Quebec, Canada, the co-author of Lean, Kata and Management System: Reflections, Observations and Stories of Organizations, and manages the Toyota Kata University website. Marc-Olivier is a continuous improvement consultant at Bell Nordic, Inc. and one of the Toyota Kata Memory Jogger co-authors. Sylvain and Marc-Olivier are heavily sought-after speakers and are respected for their writings, presentations, and practice of the Toyota Kata to instill transformational change.
Sylvain and Marc-Olivier are a dynamic duo. They are spotlighted as the #HFF for their collaboration to uplift important causes and improve processes for good in the community. They accomplish this by introducing the steps of the Improvement Kata in Kata Labs. The labs offer an environment where volunteers receive hands-on Improvement and Coaching Kata practice in real-time practice. A great example of how Sylvain and Marc-Olivier are using their knowledge and expertise to educate and develop others is the work done through the Kata Labs in organizations such as the Moisson Montreal Foodbank. Participants in the labs immediately deliver results to enhance the gathering and distribution process. Volunteers leave the two-day workshop with the satisfaction of knowing they’ve made a positive impact in their community through practicing the Kata for Good and that the improvement journey lives on beyond the lab with no expiration date. Isn’t that inspiring?
Please connect with Sylvain and Marc-Olivier today to learn more about how they’re transforming lives through educating and empowering others. Also, please join me in celebrating their powerful partnership by leaving a congratulatory note in the comments.
Happy #HighFiveFriday Sylvain and Marc-Olivier, you both totally rock!
I liked the way the feature highlights both Sylvain Landry and Marc Olivier Legentil, especially the focus on their creative journeys and how their influences shaped their work over time. It’s interesting how these kinds of spotlights give a more personal look at artists beyond just the final product. I found myself wondering how often they collaborate or exchange ideas, since their approaches seem distinct yet complementary. It also made me think about how sharing processes can help others understand creative work better, whether in art or more structured projects, where some people might even look for research proposal writing assistance when trying to organise their own ideas clearly.