The LCS Awards Winners 2026
Celebrating excellence in Improvement, recognising individuals and organisations that have made a significant impact in the field.
Organisation: LCS Organisation of the Year Award
National Deaf Children’s Society
National Deaf Children’s Society won Organisation of the Year for using Lean to deliver meaningful improvements for deaf children and their families, while building sustainable improvement capability and putting customer needs at the heart of change.
Individual: LCS Global Champion Award
Lyndsay MacLeod
Lyndsay was selected as Global Champion for her exceptional leadership in combining large-scale Lean-Agile transformation with people-centred capability building, delivering measurable global impact while creating a lasting culture of continuous improvement.
Organisation: LCS Culture of Improvement Award
Hilti After Market Services Lean
Hilti After Market Services Lean was selected for its outstanding people-centred approach to embedding Lean at a global scale, empowering employees and leaders to make continuous improvement part of everyday work.
Organisation: LCS Digital & AI-Enabled Improvement Award
Computacenter
Computacenter won for its innovative Triple A approach, successfully combining Analytics, Automation and AI with Lean thinking to help people solve problems faster, improve decision-making and deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Organisation: LCS Impact Excellence Award
OMRAN Group
OMRAN Group was selected for the breadth and scale of its measurable improvement results, demonstrating how Lean can create lasting organisational value across multiple functions while embedding continuous improvement into everyday business.
Individual: LCS Leadership Excellence Award
Louise Firby
Louise won Leadership Excellence for her exceptional people-centred leadership in building a holistic Lean business system that has created lasting capability, cultural change and a sustainable continuous improvement legacy.
Individual: LCS Practitioner Excellence Award
Zoe Davies
Zoe was selected for her outstanding continuous improvement expertise, customer-focused approach and ability to lead major transformation programmes while inspiring and developing others to deliver lasting impact.
Individual: LCS Rising Star Award
Josh Maddison
Josh won Rising Star for the remarkable impact he has made early in his continuous improvement career, demonstrating curiosity, confidence, innovation and all the qualities of a future improvement leader.
Organisation: LCS Learning & Development Excellence Award
Excellence.ON
Excellence.ON was selected for its innovative and large-scale approach to developing sustainable improvement capability, creating lasting behavioural change and widespread engagement across the organisation.
Organisation: LCS Scaling Continuous Improvement Capability Award
City of Jacksonville
City of Jacksonville won for its ambitious and highly effective approach to embedding continuous improvement across an entire city, empowering employees to deliver measurable improvements and making CI part of how public services operate.


