Lean Learning Center

Developing Leaders and Learners for Lean Transformation

Whether you call it lean, lean manufacturing, lean production, kaizen or the Toyota Production System, lean is one of the most dramatic and sustained concepts business has ever seen. The Lean Learning Center is committed to developing leaders and learners for lean transformation, and delivering the resources and curriculum to help you learn and gain valuable new skills. The Center provides the most advanced, comprehensive and effective lean curriculum available anywhere, combined with a highly effective and unique learning environment to provide you with an experience that is as close to learning inside Toyota as you can find.

• Do you understand the current reality of your business?
• Have you had trouble transferring your vision to your peers?
• Are you having difficulty knowing how to begin closing the gap?

You are not alone! Many companies have attempted various lean initiatives with limited sustainable results.

The biggest failure mode of lean transformation is a general misunderstanding of the importance of a holistic lean approach. Implementation often looks like a collection of lean tools, as opposed to a complete solution where all of the mechanisms work together to evoke change. Furthermore, leaders find it difficult to articulate the importance of the program as a whole, and feel there is a lack of culture, systems, and infrastructure in place to support such changes.

The Lean Learning Center was founded in 2001 to address the gaps and barriers that are holding back companies from successful and sustainable lean transformation. In addition to the advanced curriculum, the Center has developed a learning environment designed specifically for adult learning utilizing techniques that include discovery simulations, case studies, personal planning, and reflection - ultimately engaging people at a deep and personal level. We bring our unique lean understanding in creative ways to executives, managers, supervisors, change agents and front-line employees.