--- title: Fabrice Bernhard | Lean AI, Lean Enterprise Institute description: Fabrice Bernhard brings a founder's perspective to LEI's LeanTech AI Initiative, showing what organizational maturity looks like when you scale Lean practice from startup to enterprise. --- [![LeanAI mark](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/lean_AI_logo_wht.png) LeanAI](https://tech.lean.org/?hsLang=en) Work With Us expand\_more [groups Lean AI for Teams Team problem solving, with AI in the method. For CI and ops leaders.](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-teams?hsLang=en) [account\_tree Lean AI for Value Streams Your ideal value stream, reached one target condition at a time. For value-stream owners.](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-value-streams?hsLang=en) [Start on your own smart\_toy Lean AI Dojo Free coaching tools arrow\_outward](https://tech.lean.org/dojo?hsLang=en) [Technology leaders hub Not forward deployed. 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Forward developed.](https://tech.lean.org/for-technology-leaders?hsLang=en) [What is Lean AI?](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai?hsLang=en) [Journal](https://tech.lean.org/journal?hsLang=en) [lean.org](https://lean.org) [Book a Discovery Session](https://tech.lean.org/book?hsLang=en) [arrow\_back The faculty](https://tech.lean.org/#faculty) ![Fabrice Bernhard](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/team/fabrice-bernhard.png) Scaling Lean from Startup to Enterprise # Fabrice Bernhard Fabrice Bernhard brings a founder's perspective to LEI's LeanTech AI Initiative, showing what organizational maturity looks like when you scale Lean practice from startup to enterprise. Growing companies often hit a familiar ceiling: Agile works beautifully for individual teams but offers no framework for coordinating hundreds of people. Leaders experience cycles of excitement and frustration as they try to scale what made them fast in the first place. Fabrice has lived this challenge from the inside, building Theodo from a student project to a 700-person, €100M consultancy while maintaining startup-like agility. This is where he specializes. ## Fabrice brings expertise in: - check Scaling Agile beyond individual teams by applying the broader systems thinking from Toyota's production system - check Designing organizational architecture (like Theodo's network of spin-off entities) that maintains small-team dynamics within a large company - check Building learning organizations where structured problem-solving and people development drive sustainable growth Fabrice co-authored *The Lean Tech Manifesto*, which won the 2025 Shingo Publication Award, offering a practical framework for what the original Agile Manifesto never addressed: scaling agility across an entire organization. He co-founded Theodo in Paris and led its expansion to London, New York, and beyond. 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