About Leanier
Our Mission
At Leanier, our mission is to help people live leaner, simpler, and more balanced lives through the power of Lean Thinking.
We believe true productivity isn’t about doing more, but doing what matters, with clarity and flow.
Leanier guides better choices every day, helping you create lasting value for yourself and a more sustainable world.
Meet the women behind Leanier
Leanier reflects who they are:
Supportive, thoughtful and purpose-driven
Making personal growth feel achievable, not overwhelming.
Michelle Leong
CEO & Founder Leanier
Lean practitioner for over 20 years, she has facilitated over a hundred organisational changes within the UK & Europe. Author of' Being Lean'. Lean Thinking Authority, Behavioural Efficiency Architect, Systems Designer
Debbie Gilbert - Marketing
Built a marketing and events agency from scratch. 27 years ago working with SME’s. Leveraging her network,community building & marketing skills to grow the Leanier tribe.
About Us – The Story Behind Leanier
Leanier wasn’t born in a boardroom.
It began with a conversation between two women from very different worlds - Michelle Leong, a Lean pioneer who had spent over 20 years refining the art of efficiency in life and business, and Debbie Gilbert, an award-winning marketing strategist with a sharp eye for what
connects with real people
Michelle had spent decades living and teaching Lean Thinking - transforming it from an industrial process into a way of life. Through her book Being Lean and her innovative LeanPac® travel system, she’d shown thousands how to simplify the way they live, work and move. But she wanted to take Lean to the next level — to make it accessible to millions.
Debbie saw the opportunity instantly. She recognised that Michelle’s life’s work; practical, proven and deeply human. It had all the ingredients for a digital revolution. Her advice was simple but transformative:
“If you want Lean to reach everyone, it needs to live in their hands, not just in a book.”
That conversation became the spark for Leanier - an app designed to do the exact opposite of traditional productivity tools.
No pressure. No perfection. No over-engineered dashboards.
Instead, Leanier takes the proven principles of Lean Thinking and blends them with behavioural science and habit psychology to create a life companion that helps people do less, but do it better.
Every element of the app follows one guiding rule:
If it doesn’t make life simpler, it doesn’t go in the app.
Built on a foundation of simplicity, calm and flow, Leanier empowers people to:
feel organised without overwhelm
achieve progress without perfectionism
regain time and energy for what truly matters
Michelle and Debbie believe the world has reached peak busy. Productivity has become pressure, and time has become a luxury. Leanier is their answer - a practical, methodology-backed way to live lighter, think clearer, and be Leanier every day.
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journey
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