Certified Lean Professional One-on-One

Converting non-productive time into customer-focused, productive time enables any organization to grow revenue faster than cost. This course prepares participants to implement tools of the waste-minimizing Lean problem-solving methodology, resulting in lower costs, increased customer satisfaction, better on-time performance, and higher quality. Candidates will learn how to craft a data-driven business case built on root cause analysis to support process improvement recommendations.

Topics include:

• Five fundamentals of Lean culture, emphasizing employee engagement
• Change management and Project leadership
• Kaizen and Value Stream Mapping
• Root Cause Analysis (5 Why)
• Use and implementation of common Lean tools

The course features online lectures, conversations, and perspectives from industry professionals about Lean in addition to a physical coursebook for you to keep.  Thought-provoking questions at the end of each section allow you to reflect and assess your knowledge gained through the course.  In addition, there are one-on-one mentoring sessions to help guide in applying the Lean methodology and tools to a problem in your organization.

Certification requires passing a final exam and completing a successful Lean project at the candidate’s place of work. Successful projects require access to relevant resources and data.

Hours: 18 hours of asynchronous online education and 10 hours of personal mentoring/coaching by a Certified Lean Professional; mentoring is conducted virtually.

• Develop a Project Charter including defining a problem and establish a goal.
• Create a Value Stream Map to identify process issues associated with the problem.
• Synthesize process data and observations to identify true root causes of problems.
• Construct and validate solutions that use the appropriate Lean tools to address root causes.
• Develop the plan and metrics to guide and sustain Lean improvement efforts.

Highly motivated individuals across all roles and industries, from shop-floor employees to executives, who are accountable for running continuous improvement efforts.

• Ideas for an improvement project before beginning the course
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

Start this self-paced course at the beginning of any month you choose. Payment must be made no later than the 15th of the preceding month.

Candidates are encouraged to take the exam 5-9 months after beginning the program. A project and/or project resubmission must be submitted within 12 months after the course start. Candidates must meet these requirements in order to be certified.

All project submissions* and resubmissions must be received for final review within 12 months of onboarding. After 12 months, an administrative fee will be assessed for any project submission.

*Project completion typically takes 6-12 months

Materials and course access will be sent by the first Monday of the next month, if payment is received on time.