Todd Drummond Releases New Lean Manufacturing Book for Leaders at Every Level

Lean Manufacturing Made Obvious For Leaders earns a 4.8-star Amazon rating and early praise for cutting through jargon with real-world process improvement guidance.

SUFFOLK, VA, April 20, 2026 — Lean manufacturing has helped some companies transform performance, reduce waste, improve flow, and strengthen employee engagement. Yet many leaders still struggle to make Lean practical enough for everyday use because too many improvement efforts become buried in jargon, complexity, and short-lived initiatives.

Todd Drummond, founder of Todd Drummond Consulting, LLC, addresses that problem directly in his new book, Lean Manufacturing Made Obvious For Leaders: Practical Process Improvement Made So Anyone Can Understand, Teach, And Sustain It. The book is now available on Amazon and currently holds a 4.8-star customer rating.

Written for owners, executives, managers, supervisors, and improvement leaders, the book offers readers a practical way to make work easier to see, teach, and sustain. Rather than presenting Lean as an academic system or a collection of isolated tools, Drummond explains how leaders can build better work environments by improving flow, reducing confusion, strengthening standard work, and designing processes that do not depend on memory, heroics, or constant supervision.

“Most companies do not have a people problem as much as they have a clarity and flow problem,” said Drummond. “Good people can still struggle when the work is hard to see, priorities are unclear, handoffs are weak, and processes depend too much on tribal knowledge. This book was written to make Lean practical enough that leaders can understand it, teach it, and use it with their teams.”

Early reader feedback has emphasized the book’s practical value. One verified Amazon reviewer wrote:

Drummond brings nearly 40 years of manufacturing experience and almost 25 years as a full-time consultant helping companies improve operations, quality, scheduling, communication, and profitability. His consulting work has long focused on helping businesses identify the real causes of delay, waste, rework, and lost capacity, so leaders can correct the system rather than simply pushing people harder.

Lean Manufacturing Made Obvious For Leaders introduces readers to practical improvement principles that can be applied across manufacturing, office, administrative, service, and leadership environments. The book focuses on making work visible, reducing preventable mistakes, improving handoffs, strengthening standard work, and helping teams build processes that hold up under real-world pressure. 

The result is a leadership-focused Lean guide that is simple enough for new employees to understand and practical enough for experienced executives to apply.

Lean Manufacturing Made Obvious For Leaders is available now on Amazon in paperback and other formats.

About Todd Drummond

Todd Drummond is the founder of Todd Drummond Consulting, LLC, a process improvement consultingfirm focused on Lean manufacturing, operational flow, productivity, and leadership clarity. With nearly 40 years of manufacturing experience and almost 25 years as a full-time consultant, Drummond has helped companies improve performance across manufacturing, administration, design, sales, scheduling, and leadership systems. His work is especially known in the wood truss and wall panel manufacturing industry, while his practical Lean methods apply across many types of organizations.

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Book available on Amazon: Lean Manufacturing Made Obvious For Leaders