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White Belt Certification introduces foundational Lean Six Sigma concepts and basic process improvement principles for beginners.
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Yellow Belt Certification builds practical knowledge to support improvement projects and contribute to data driven teams.
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Green Belt Certification develops advanced problem solving skills to lead projects and deliver measurable business results.
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Blue Belt Certification prepares leaders to sponsor initiatives and align improvement strategies with organizational goals.
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Black Belt Certification equips professionals with expert level skills to drive enterprise wide transformation and excellence.
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Introduces DISC personality training to improve communication and leadership by understanding behavioral styles and motivating people effectively.
Purple Belt Certification
Introduces DISC personality training to improve communication and leadership by understanding behavioral styles and motivating people effectively.
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Leader Standard Work – Support Improvements and Teams
It's not magic! Templates, "How to" Guide, instructions and workbook - to effectively engage people in change; getting them to...
Service Level Agreements – Developing Solid Hand-Off’s and Expectations Between Teams
We don't play any sport without getting to know the rules right? Establish expectations and rules to your team's efforts...
Visual Performance Management
Manage your business visually. A "How to" guide in displaying your information visually. Includes Templates, a Workbook for notes, a...
New Process Documentation – Managing Your New Process at a Glance
In this module, we will cover the essential elements necessary to create process documentation that works and that stands the...
Validating Project Results
Cause and Effect diagram Template included in this narrated training module that will tell you if your improvement project has...
RASCI – Designing Your Future State
Key concepts to help you design the new way of working. Utilizing RASCI - Assigning roles made easy through a...
Criteria Matrix – Selecting Your Solution
Providing you with templates, a workbook, "how to" guide and narrated video in this module, we will review different methods...
A Visual workplace – Creating an Environment That Speaks
Learn how to turn your workplace into a visual, self-sustaining environment where creativity flows and calm rules. Workbook, narrated video...
Work Cell Design – Creating an Efficient Workspace
When it comes to fast-paced business, the layout has never been more important. Learn options for office space layout and...
Load-Leveling (Heijunka) – Smoothing Out Your Production Cycle
Learn about this Lean method for reducing the unevenness in a process & avoiding too much work or not enough...
Just in Time Inventory – Manage Inventory Like a Pro
Gain insight into companies that are successful in minimizing inventory and costs and increasing profitability. This module includes a narrated...
Kanban – Making Work Visible and Manageable
This module on Kanban provides instruction for how to visualize and maximize the flow of tasks for you and your...
Scatter Plots & Chi Square
Learn when and how to create and interpret these two tools to understand the relationship between a suspected cause &...
Understanding the Pareto Chart
Why focus on the trivial many when we can grab the Vital Few? Learn how to use the Pareto Chart...
The Box Plot – Displaying Groups of Data Professionally
A standardized way of displaying the distribution of data, comparing groups or processes with the 5-Number summary. This module contains...
Understanding The Histogram
Learn how to use histograms in everyday challenges, incorporating a narrated video, workbook and One Point Lesson for reference.
Run Charts & Control Charts
Learn more about Run Charts and Control Charts, how they are used, and how to use them throughout your business....
p-Value – Validating Your Hypotheses With Evidence
The p-value is used in hypothesis testing to quantify the idea of statistical significance of evidence. A quick module on understanding...
Detailed Process Mapping
A detailed process map – or a flowchart - is a graphical diagram that represents a workflow or process. This...
Mastering The Gemba Walk
The term Gemba is often used to stress that real improvement requires the team focus on direct observation by thoroughly...
Value Stream Mapping – Picturing the High Level Value & Flow of the Process
High-level Process mapping identifies the areas of focus required for improvement. This module covers an introduction to this process, narration...
Hypotheses – Defining Your Potential Root Causes
Learn how to build on the work that you did by formalizing your hypotheses so that you can test and...
The Art of Sampling – Why & How to Sample Project Data
Sample size is a frequently-used term in market research and statistics and one that inevitably comes up whenever you’re studying...
Identifying & Collecting Measures for Improvement Projects
Collecting meaningful data correctly, the first time. Includes video instruction, One Point Lessons: Basic Brainstorming, The Filter Matrix, The Fishbone...
How to Display Data – 6 Powerhouse Charts that You Need to Know
Selecting the right charts and graphs so you can tell the story to your audience is essential when you expect...
Statistics & Common Measures for Improvement Projects
STATISTICS! not only for experts, but all of us can benefit from understanding the stories in the numbers. A basic...
The Project Charter – Create a Powerhouse Blueprint for Your Team
The Project Charter is a collaborative effort by the team, maintained by the Project Leader and is an ongoing key...
SIPOC & Requirements – The Must-Have Tool for Every Improvement
The team will understand which process/es their improvement project will focus on. Beginning, end and everything in-between. Includes templates and...
Project Team Selection and Project Kick-Off
If the project kickoff is sloppy, if it causes confusion and anxiety or doubt, the project is going to be...
Project Selection – How to select meaningful projects that will succeed
Selecting improvement projects means that we identify areas to improve, strategically plan resources, timing, and ensure that we have strong...
Phases of DMAIC
This course provides the participant with the necessary information to support a Green belt DMAIC project as a valuable team...
PDCA – The Beginning of Problem Solving
Learn about PDCA - Plan, Do Check & Act PDCA problem solving template attached for you to download and use...
Lean Six Sigma across Diverse Industries
Learn about the usefulness of Lean and Six Sigma in ALL industries and businesses. This is not just for Manufacturing,...
5S – Getting, and Staying Organized
Don't waste your time doing just 1, 2 or 3 of the S's! Learn how to create an efficient &...
Stakeholder Management – Creating and Growing Buy-in and Support the Right Way
When starting a project, you need to be highly in tuned with those people who you will rely on to...
The 8 Wastes – Identification and Elimination
Waste is EVERYWHERE! learn about the different types, and how to recognize them through this narrated video, workbook included, and...
Beyond Brainstorming – Advanced Techniques to Assist in Creative Thinking
Running out of ideas? Learn some techniques to go above and beyond the usual brainstorming techniques to simulate ideas from...
Lean and Six Sigma core concepts explained for everyday people
Learn some of the basic core concepts in Lean and Six Sigma through a narrated video, workbook and guides throughout...
Kaizen Rapid Improvement Event Facilitator Guide – RIE
Welcome to the Lean6sigma.academy Facilitator’s Guide to Rapid Improvement Events or otherwise known as Kaizen Events! After completion of this...
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Riaan Du Plooy
Professor of Industrial Engr & Six Sigma Methodologies
Clare Di Frisco
Professor of Lean Six Sigma & Operations Excellence
Jason Hostens
Head of Quality Assurance & Six Sigma Research
Gaby Sedra
Sr. Lecturer in Process Improvement & Lean Systems
Jeni Yelton
Professor of Lean Six Sigma & Business Analytics
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Join hundreds of professionals who have enhanced their careers with Lean Sigma Academy’s training
Everything was outstanding. The instructors were knowledgeable and the course material was well organized from start to finish.
Good overview of the material, well organized and easy to follow throughout the module.
Course is beneficial on how to improve our place of employment and the individuals who need to be involved to help with the process
The training was excellent and deep structured concerning all topics which should be known in Six Sigma methodology.
Excellent course, well structured and covered the Black Belt curriculum in great depth.
Great program
Another amazing layout - thank you! The course structure made it really easy to follow along and stay engaged throughout.
This Course is importante and has informations that contribute to practice.
This was something that I've been wanting to do especially for myself and would highly recommend doing it.
Focus on the customer. Map the value streams to understand the work process. Manage and improve the process flow. Remove non-value-added steps and waste. Manage by fact and reduce variation. Involve and equip people in the process.
Very good course, clearly explained and easy to follow from start to finish.
This white belt training was enlightening, providing me with an introduction to Lean Six Sigma. I gained insights into fundamental concepts, variation, and the principles of continuous improvement. It encouraged me to think outside the box regarding my role at work.
Good course overall, well laid out and easy to follow from beginning to end.
Advanced, rigorous, and comprehensive. This certification carries real weight in my organization now.
Course was easy to follow, enjoyable, informative, workbook was extremely useful, examples used were very helpful and I scored 100% on my exam :) Looking forward to moving on to my Yellow belt certification.
Very good course, clearly explained and easy to follow throughout.
Best professional course I have completed this year.
For a newbie to the Lean Six Sigma world, this was a great introductory course!
Great course with good material and syllabus, well structured for learning Six Sigma concepts.
Challenging but extremely rewarding. Directly translated into better strategic decisions at work.
This was a very in-depth training which walked through application benefits to several organization sectors such as customer service, technology, and manufacturing. Completely recommend to others.
Lean Six Sigma course was very informative and helped me understand the core principles clearly.
Very demanding but worth every hour.
The instructors were pleasant to listen to. Great Course.
Educational and well structured, gave me a solid understanding of the concepts.
This gave me a much better toolkit for handling resistance to change within my team, something none of my other management training had covered well.
The course makes me learn and create in me the sense of analysis that I expected develop in a yellow belt certification
Well worth it for people managers.
Great course. I was very pleased with how the topics were clearly explained. The examples given were very helpful in understanding how the different tools within Lean Six Sigma can be used. The material introduced in each chapter was easy to grasp. I highly recommend this learning course as a stepping stone towards professional achievement.
This was a really informative, broad overview of Lean Six Sigma at White Belt Level, introducing all the necessary concepts clearly and concisely. Riaan and Clare are extremely knowledgeable tutors, and two people delivering the training keeps the course engaging, especially with their relaxed delivery style and sense of humour. The downloadable workbook was really helpful, and I'll definitely refer to it going forward. The speed of delivery is just right, and you are able to work through at your own pace. After this training, I feel well equipped to perform as a white belt, with a much greater understanding of the concepts of Lean Six Sigma. Highly recommend.
This is the most complete Black Belt program I have found online, and I compared several before enrolling here.
Was brilliant. Easy to follow and well laid out.
Detailed, easy to understand content
Awesome, simple and consise information. Very valuable
Excellent course: clear, concise and well organised. Just about the right amount of content, exercises and tests - look forward to going through the other "belts"
The information within the course is clear, concise and easy to understand. Exactly what I needed for an introduction to Lean Six Sigma.
Great foundation into Lean Six Sigma. Key areas discussed and relatable examples used.
Best course for understanding the sigma with lean
The course was fine. There were several scheduling issues, communication and calendar sharing challenges with faculty.
Good course overall, clearly explained and easy to follow from start to finish.
Great content for people managers specifically. Practical frameworks for managing teams through change.
yellow belt program was a great review for me very easy to follow and examples and worksheets helpful
Great overview! The course covered all the key concepts in a way that was easy to understand.
Finally a course that focuses on the people side of process improvement.
Very happy with this course. I've wanted my Yellow belt for a few years now, so I am so happy to finally have it. Lean6sigma Academy made it both affordable, and easy to complete on my schedule with modules I could start and stop when I needed, and could reply if I wanted to take extra notes or make sure I understood part of a lesson. Riaan and Clare were great instructors. Their examples and analogies made the concepts much easier to grasp. And I love some of the quotes I took down from them like, "All improvements will require change, but not all change will result in improvement" and "Our customers are the only ones who can define what a good job looks like". I highly recommend the course to anyone looking to get their Yellow belt.
Good overview of the material, well organized and easy to follow along.
Useful for management-level application. Would appreciate more templates for team coaching.
Very in-depth and practical course. Great materials and illustrations. Highly recommend.
Good resource for helping projects go forward.
Exactly what I needed to manage my team through a process transition.
Great course, learned a lot and would recommend it to others.
Excellent course. The content is superb.
Solid course for people leaders.
The coarse was outstanding I am looking for a class for the plant and this one will work for us.
Great Blue Belt course, well structured and easy to follow throughout.
This course gave me practical language for coaching conversations that I had been struggling to have with my direct reports.
Well structured and as much as needed information provided
Information was presented well and in a clear and concise manner.
Great blend of soft skills and process management.
Very informative and easy to follow
Good information on curriculum covered, well laid out and easy to understand.
Very relevant to my day-to-day as a manager.
Riaan and Clare deliver this course effortlessly, mixing video lectures with graphics and tasks, I found it to be really engaging. Lectures are thorough, in-depth, and supported by graphics, work books, and a truly remarkable range of downloadable tools that I'll definitely be using in future. The course thoroughly equips you with the knowledge and understanding to feel confident working as a Yellow Belt. Highly recommend!
The statistical modules pushed me further than any other certification I have done, and the decision-making frameworks are now part of how I run quarterly reviews.
Valuable content. Easily understood concepts. Videos were extremely helpful. Test was challenging, but fair and based on video content. I learnt a lot from this course.
Dense but rewarding course.
This Lean Six Sigma White Belt course provided an excellent foundation for anyone looking to understand the basics of Lean Six Sigma. Whether you're a professional looking to enhance your skills or someone entirely new to the concept, this course is a great starting point.
Top-tier content for senior decision makers.
I really enjoyed this course, and will start to use what I've already learned immediately in my workplace.
Excellent starter course. Easy-to-understand explanation and tangible examples
Comprehensive, well worth the time investment.
Exceeded my expectations at this level.
Clare and Riaan are great instructors. They did well at breaking down the material logically and relating it to real-world examples. They made the class very enjoyable and worthwhile. The course is easy to learn from and provides you with the prerequisites to go for the next level.
The course was simply laid out and explanations were easy to understand
Was a well organised and presented course that provided the key concepts
very informative and good explanation.
This course is a perfect introduction to Lean + Six Sigma. The material, the videos and the explanation are very good.
Lean Sigma Academy gave me the tools to quickly identify and eliminate inefficiencies in our processes, leading to significant cost savings and improved team performance.
Michael T.
Operations Manager
The Green Belt certification provided me with valuable insights and techniques that I applied immediately, resulting in measurable improvements in our department’s productivity
Rachel W.
Process Improvement Coordinator
Thanks to Lean Sigma Academy, I was able to implement strategies that streamlined our workflow, reducing errors and cutting down operational costs.
David R.
Senior Project Manager
The knowledge I gained from the Black Belt course allowed me to take on more complex projects and deliver outstanding results for my team.
Jessica P.
Black Belt Certified Expert
Completing my Yellow Belt certification gave me the confidence to lead small projects and help my team achieve better results with less effort.
Tom H.
Junior Process Analyst
Lean Sigma Academy gave me the tools to quickly identify and eliminate inefficiencies in our processes, leading to significant cost savings and improved team performance.
Michael T.
Operations Manager
The Green Belt certification provided me with valuable insights and techniques that I applied immediately, resulting in measurable improvements in our department’s productivity
Rachel W.
Process Improvement Coordinator
Thanks to Lean Sigma Academy, I was able to implement strategies that streamlined our workflow, reducing errors and cutting down operational costs.
David R.
Senior Project Manager
The knowledge I gained from the Black Belt course allowed me to take on more complex projects and deliver outstanding results for my team.
Jessica P.
Black Belt Certified Expert
Completing my Yellow Belt certification gave me the confidence to lead small projects and help my team achieve better results with less effort.
Tom H.
Junior Process Analyst
Frequently Asked Question
Here are answers to some of the most common questions we receive. If you don't find what you're looking for, feel free to contact us!
What is Lean Six Sigma?
Lean Six Sigma is a methodology that combines Lean's focus on efficiency and Six Sigma's focus on quality to eliminate waste, reduce variability, and improve processes. It provides a structured approach to solving problems, improving workflows, and delivering consistent, high-quality results.
What are the different levels of Lean Six Sigma certification?
The typical levels of Lean Six Sigma certification are:
- White Belt: Introduction to Lean Six Sigma concepts.
- Yellow Belt: Basic knowledge of Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques, focusing on small-scale projects.
- Green Belt: Intermediate knowledge, with the ability to lead small projects and work as part of larger teams.
- Black Belt: Advanced expertise, able to lead complex projects and mentor other practitioners.
- Purple Belt: Focused on personal development, helping individuals enhance their problem-solving, decision-making, and productivity using Lean Six Sigma principles.
Do I need any prior experience to start Lean Six Sigma certification?
No prior experience is required to start with White Belt certification. For higher levels like Green Belt or Black Belt, having basic project management knowledge or familiarity with process improvement concepts is helpful but not mandatory. We provide all the resources needed to get you started.
How long does it take to complete a certification?
The time required to complete each certification depends on the level and your personal schedule.
- White Belt: 1-2 days
- Yellow Belt: 1-2 weeks
- Green Belt: 4-6 weeks
- Black Belt: 3-6 months
- However, you can learn at your own pace, and our platform offers flexible schedules to accommodate your personal needs.
How is the course material delivered?
Our courses are delivered through a combination of video lectures, interactive content, quizzes, and case studies. You'll also have access to downloadable materials, PDF notes, exercises, and discussion forums to interact with instructors and fellow students.
Is the certification recognized by employers?
Yes, our Lean Six Sigma certifications are widely recognized by employers across various industries. Many organizations use Lean Six Sigma to improve operations, and having a certification will demonstrate your expertise in process improvement, which is highly valued in fields like manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and IT.
Can I apply what I learn directly to my job?
Absolutely! The goal of Lean Six Sigma training is to equip you with practical tools and methods that you can immediately apply to real-world problems. You will work on projects during your training that align with your current job, so you can start improving processes right away.
What kind of support will I receive during the course?
You’ll have access to a dedicated support team, instructors, and fellow students through forums and Q&A sessions. We offer live support, feedback on assignments, and additional resources to help you succeed in your course.
Are there any exams required for certification?
Yes, each certification level requires passing an exam to demonstrate your understanding of Lean Six Sigma principles. The exams consist of multiple-choice questions, and you’ll be required to apply what you've learned to case studies and real-world scenarios.
Will I receive a physical certificate?
Yes, after completing your course and passing the exam, you will receive a physical certificate along with a digital certificate that you can share on platforms like LinkedIn or with future employers.
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