Lean Master Certification
Event Location:
Manufacturers Resource Center, 7200A Windsor Drive, Allentown, PA, 18106, USA
Registration is now closed. If you wish to be added to our waitlist, please contact Nicole Pierce at nicole.pierce@mrcpa.org or (484) 655-4873.
MRC’s Lean Master Certification Program emphasizes strategic Lean transformation through cultural engagement and help prepare your team to manage your organization’s Lean journey.
A Lean Enterprise is more than a collection of improvement tools, a Lean Enterprise aligns an organization’s purpose with its people and its processes.
Lean Master Certification is delivered by MRC and Mike Hoseus, former General Manager at Toyota. The program features blended learning through a mix of classroom instruction, instructor-led exercises at host companies, and one-on-one coaching for each participant.
MRC’s Lean Master Certification is earned through the successful completion of a Standardization or PDCA project.
In Lean Master Certification, participants will learn how:
• Value stream mapping can help visualize improvement opportunities
• The Scientific Method of Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) can proactively and reactively
eliminate the root cause of problems
• Lean Daily Management Systems can share performance information and prioritize
improvement work at all levels
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) can create a shared ownership of equipment to
maximize the operation by reducing downtime
• Understanding the Yellow Belt Six Sigma problem-solving approach of Define, Measure,
Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) can help your collaboration with Green and Black
Belt Improvement Leaders
• Managing Change effectively will minimize conflict among your team
Price: $4,750 Early registration discount price $4,250 by February 13, 2024
• 12 days (2-3-day sessions every 3 weeks)
• All sessions run 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
• Includes course materials, light breakfast, lunch, snacks, and beverages
• Includes offsite session(s) hosted at local manufacturers as available*
• Prerequisite: Foundations of Lean Certification
*Contact Nicole Pierce if interested in hosting opportunities at your manufacturing facility.
*Subject to change
• Week 1: April 9-10, 2024
• Week 2: April 23-24, 2024
• Week 3: May 7-8, 2024
• Week 4: May 20-22, 2024
• Week 5: June 4-5, 2024
• Week 6: June 13, 2024
Gene Kaschak, VP, Continuous Improvement & Leadership Development Strategy
Gene has seen first-hand how the best improvement ideas usually get started by the people doing the work every day. His early projects in continuous improvement were focused on bringing these ideas to life by listening to small suggestions or comments and designing the proposed solutions for various manufacturing, operations, maintenance, product development, and information technology projects. As a Lean Coach with MRC since 2014, Gene’s focus now is to develop the scientific thinking skills in the local manufacturing community to bring these improvement ideas to life through daily experiments.
Wendy Beltzner, Director, Leadership Development and Training Strategy
Wendy’s role at MRC is training and coaching business-critical Interpersonal Skills Development and conducting MRC’s Supervisor Bootcamps to help every supervisor realize and optimize their potential. With her vast experience in leadership development, Wendy is also teaching manager essentials for mid-level managers. She previously worked for Fortune 500 service giants such as IBM and Manpower Inc., advancing her career from entry-level through various levels of management. Wendy earned her B.S. degree in Marketing from Oral Roberts University, is a Certified TWI (Training Within Industry) Job Instruction Trainer, and a Certified Everything DiSC Practitioner.
Mike Hoseus, Author, Executive Director Center for Quality People & Organizations (CQPO), Lexington, Kentucky
Mike is Executive Director for the Center for Quality People & Organizations (CQPO), an organization developed in 1999 as a vision of Toyota Motor Manufacturing to share Lean Quality philosophy and human resource practices with education, business, and community organizations.
Mike is an adjunct professor with the University of Kentucky’s Center for Manufacturing, and a member of the faculty of Lean Enterprise Institute. Prior to CQPO, Mike was a corporate leader for 13 years at Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s Georgetown, Kentucky plant both in Human Resources and Manufacturing. Mike currently supports organizations with Lean Culture transformations focusing on the roles of Executive Management and Human Resources and how the quality people value stream connects to the production value stream.
Richard Titus, Jr., Ph.D. Titus Consulting
Richard Titus, PhD, is a Master Black Belt who spent nearly 20 years at Ingersoll-Rand in a variety of positions including operations management, IS, materials management, and manufacturing and design engineering among others. Dr. Titus is certified as a Black Belt and Master Black Belt by Six Sigma Qualtec where he also received his Lean training. Rich received his BS in industrial engineering and MS in manufacturing systems engineering from Lehigh University where he has been a lecturer and adjunct faculty member since 2000. In 2019, he earned his PhD in industrial engineering from Penn State University focusing his research on supplier selection. Dr. Titus has supported over 350 Lean Six Sigma projects in over 60+ companies resulting in over $50 million dollars of real savings.
Questions?
Contact Nicole Pierce at (484) 655-4873 or nicole.pierce@mrcpa.org.