This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Lean Educator Conference ELEC 2021, hosted in Trondheim, Norway, in October 2021 and sponsored by IFIP WG 5.7. They are organized in the following thematic sections: Learning Lean; Teaching Lean in the Digital Era; Lean and Digital; Lean Management; Lean Coaching and Mentoring;

Learning Lean.- Sustaining Continuous Improvement Through Double Loop Learning.- Learning Spaces for engineering education: An exploratory research about the role of Lean Thinking.- The learning way to EBITDA improvement.- Top Down or Bottom Up: Perspectives on Critical Success Factors of Lean in Institutes of Higher Education .- The production cultural biorhythm as a new LEAN learning process.- Proposing VSM as a tool to compare synchronic online teaching and face-to-face teaching.- Hybrid learning factories for lean education: Approach and morphology for competency-oriented design of suitable virtual reality learning environments.- Fostering insights from real-time data.- Shaping Lean Teaching Methods: Recognizing Lean as a Journey vs. a Set of Tools..- Learning a Lean Way.- Lean Learning Factories: concepts from the past updated to the future.- The impact of different training approaches on learning lean: a comparative study on Value Stream Mapping.- Teaching Lean in the Digital Era.-  Lean courses in process form - do as we learn, success or not?.- The digitalisation and virtual delivery of Lean Six Sigma teaching in an Irish university during COVID-19.- A Lean Six Sigma training providers transition to a 100% online delivery model .- Teaching in Virtual Reality: Experiences from a Lean Masterclass.- Lean and Digital.- When digital lean tools need continuous improvement.- Discovering Artificial Intelligence implementation and insights for Lean Production.- Breaking out of the Digitalization Paradox.- Lean 4.0.- Mapping the Landscape for Lean Six Sigma 4.0.- Learning through action: on the use of Logistics4.0 Lab as learning developer.- Blended Network Action Learning – A Digital Lean Approach to Solving Complex Organizational Problems Across Space and Time.- Lean Management.- ‘Fake lean’; On deviating from an ambiguous essence.- Toyota Inspired Excellence Models.- Quantum Lean: The Next Step in Lean Systems.- What comesafter the transformation?.- Lean Coaching and Mentoring.- Developing middle managers with gemba training.- Towards effective Lean QRM Yellow-belt training programs: a longitudinal analysis.- Skills and Knowledge Management.- 14 Steps Toward Lean Knowledge Management.- Taking the Playing Lean Experience Online: The Case of Using a Board Game to Teach Lean Startup Remotely.- Bloom Taxonomy, Serious Games and Lean Learning: What do these topics have in common?.- Productivity and Performance Improvement.- Lean Monitoring: Boosting KPIs processing through Lean.- A Simulation-Based Performance Comparison between Flow Shops and Job Shops .- A Framework and Qualitative Comparison on Different Approaches to Improve the Lean Skillset.- Lean Warehousing: Enhancing productivity through lean.- New Perspectives on Lean.- Lean office in a manufacturing company.- Lean Thinking application in the healthcare sector.- Lessons learned from Toyota Kata implementation in the Norwegian construction industry.- Lean Translated from a Manufacturing Industry Context to Municipality Service Production: A Case Study.- Challenges in Prototyping a Problem-Solving Practice.- Leonardo Da Vinci: Lean Educator or Lean Sensei?.- Lean contribution to the companies’ sustainability.