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Continuous Improvement UK is powered by people. By their ideas, their curiosity, their experience and their belief that things can always be better. UKNCI brings those people together, creating a community of like minded people who want to connect, share, learn and make a difference.

What to Expect

UKNCI is about more than connecting online. We’ll bring the community together through live talks, guest conversations, open discussions and shared learning, creating opportunities to hear from people with different experiences, ideas and perspectives from across Continuous Improvement and beyond.

Expect real conversations, practical insights and plenty of opportunities to get involved yourself. From experienced practitioners and industry voices to people challenging traditional thinking, the aim is to learn from each other, spark new ideas and keep moving the profession forward together.

how to get involved

Getting involved is simple, and it’s completely free to join and participate. Join the UKNCI community on LinkedIn, introduce yourself and become part of a growing network of like minded people who share a passion for Continuous Improvement.

Share your experiences, ask questions, offer a different perspective or simply learn from others. Whether you’ve spent decades in Continuous Improvement or you’re just starting your journey, there’s a place for you here. The more we connect, contribute and support each other, the stronger our community and the UK Continuous Improvement profession becomes.

Bringing the Continuous Improvement UK Community Together

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Founding Members

Maxine Wood

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Maxine is a strategic, results driven leader with extensive experience leading Continuous Improvement, organisational transformation and operational change across corporate, education, military and public sector environments.

Throughout her career, she has led large scale change programmes, redesigned learning strategies and implemented quality assurance frameworks to improve colleague capability, operational performance and business outcomes. She is passionate about using data, insight and collaboration to challenge the status quo and identify opportunities for improvement.

Although relatively new to formally applying Lean Six Sigma, Maxine quickly recognised how closely its principles aligned with the Continuous Improvement approaches she has developed throughout her career. What began as professional curiosity has become a genuine passion, providing greater structure to something she has always enjoyed: solving problems, improving processes and delivering meaningful, sustainable change.

Maxine is continuing to develop her expertise in Continuous Improvement and is keen to connect with others across the profession, learning from fellow practitioners while sharing ideas, experiences and best practice.

Stuart Robertson

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Stuart Robertson is a highly experienced Lean, Business Excellence and Continuous Improvement professional with more than 40 years of experience across engineering, manufacturing, operational improvement and organisational transformation.

Throughout his career, Stuart has worked closely with leaders and teams to improve performance, strengthen flow, build capability and make Continuous Improvement part of everyday work. His extensive experience across manufacturing and industrial environments has given him a practical understanding of what makes Lean work in the real world.

Stuart’s approach to Lean is firmly centred on people. He sees Lean as much more than a toolkit, a series of workshops or an approach to reducing costs. For Stuart, it is a leadership philosophy and learning system that gives people the capability and opportunity to solve problems, improve processes and deliver better value for customers.

Alongside his Continuous Improvement work, Stuart is developing his practice in executive coaching and mentoring. This brings a reflective and coaching led perspective to his work around leadership development, workforce capability and Business Excellence.

Stuart is passionate about helping organisations move beyond simply applying Lean tools and instead develop the leadership behaviours, trust and people capability needed to make improvement sustainable.

Matt Sims

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Matt Sims has spent more than 25 years learning what really makes improvement work: people.

As the founder of Ever-So-Lean, Matt works across Continuous Improvement, Change and Transformation, and people centred leadership, helping organisations build sustainable cultures of high performance. His career has seen him lead large scale improvement and capability building across organisations including Amazon and Royal Mail.

In 2025, Matt received three major industry accolades, including a BQF Excellenteer accolade presented by HRH The Princess Royal at Wembley Stadium, the LCS Global Champion Award and a Global Recognition Award.

Matt is a popular Keynote Speaker, host of the multi award nominated Ever-So-Lean Podcast and author of The Emergence of an Unexpected Leader and Building the Bridge to Inspirational Leadership, which was inducted into the Legal Deposit Libraries for the UK and Ireland in 2025, preserving his work for current and future generations.

Known for making improvement and leadership practical, relatable and human, Matt openly shares the successes, mistakes and personal challenges that have shaped his own journey. At the heart of his work is a simple belief: involve people, give them a voice and create the conditions for them to thrive. Performance will follow.

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