Certified Lean Six
Sigma Black Belt
Lead transformation. Drive strategic impact. Deliver excellence at scale.Advanced Professional Certification – Transformation Leader Level
- Format: In-person, live online, or blended
- Duration: 10–15 days of modular training
- Coaching: Optional 1:1 project coaching
- Methodology: • Advanced statistical labs • Real case simulations • Project coaching clinics • Cross-functional team exercises • Leadership & change workshops
The Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt program prepares high-level professionals to lead complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives and deliver measurable, strategic business results.
Black Belts are the architects of operational excellence inside an organization. They master advanced statistical analysis, end-to-end process reengineering, stakeholder leadership, and change management enabling them to orchestrate improvements that cut across functions, technologies, and geographies.
Through intensive training, hands-on analytics, and real project execution, participants develop the competencies required to:
- Solve the most complex business problems
- Lead transformation teams
- Accelerate digital, Lean, and AI-enabled initiatives
- Deliver significant financial and operational benefits
This internationally recognized certification represents the highest professional standard in continuous improvement before the Master Black Belt level.
Learning Objectives
By completing this program, participants will be able to:
- Lead complex Lean Six Sigma projects with significant business impact
- Apply advanced DMAIC techniques with analytical rigor
- Use statistical tools (e.g., hypothesis testing, regression, ANOVA, DOE) using Minitab/JMP
- Redesign end-to-end processes through Lean transformation
- Facilitate workshops and cross-functional improvement teams
- Influence stakeholders and lead organizational change
- Build business cases and translate data into executive-level decisions
- Integrate Lean Six Sigma with Digital, Automation, and AI initiatives
- Coach Green Belts and accelerate capability building across the organization
Target Audience
This program is designed for high-impact professionals, including:
• Senior Green Belts ready for advanced leadership
• Operational Excellence & CI Leaders
• Process Owners and Transformation Managers
• Project and Program Leaders
• Digital, Innovation, and Automation Leads
• Managers responsible for performance improvement
Industries Served
This advanced methodology delivers major impact across:
• Banking & Insurance
• Asset & Wealth Management
• Manufacturing & Engineering
• Luxury & Retail
• Packaging, Food & Beverage
• Energy & Utilities
• Healthcare & Pharma
• Shared Services & Operations
Certification
The Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt credential is awarded upon:
• Successful completion of training
• Passing the BB exam
• Approval of one major project (or two medium)
• Demonstrated mastery of analytical and leadership competencies
Recognized internationally and aligned with global LSS standards.
Course Content
- The strategic role of a Black Belt
- Governance, project selection, portfolio alignment
- Influencing leaders and managing complex change
- Kaizen events at scale
- Value Stream Reengineering
- System bottlenecks and flow optimization
- Lean in services, digital and operational processes
- Exploratory data analysis & statistical inference
- Hypothesis testing, ANOVA, correlation
- Regression & predictive modeling
- Measurement system analysis (MSA)
- Capability analysis and performance distributions
- Full factorial, fractional factorial, Taguchi
- Optimization of parameters and performance
- Application in service and transactional environments
- Multivariate analysis
- Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Risk-based prioritization
- Statistical validation of root causes
- Lean tools for large-scale improvements
- Rapid experimentation and pilot planning
- ROI analysis and financial impact assessment
- Designing for automation and digital adoption
- Control systems & dashboards
- Visual management for leaders
- Cultural embedding and long-term ownership
- Handover and sustainability plans
- Executive storytelling
- Project documentation & governance
- Final project presentation
To earn the Black Belt Certification, participants must:
- Complete the full training
- Pass the Black Belt knowledge exam
one major cross-functional project
(or two medium-size projects, depending on corporate requirements) covering:
- Financial improvements (cost, FTE, defects, productivity)
- Quality & error reduction
- Lead time reduction
- Risk mitigation & customer experience improvement
- Integration with digital/automation initiatives
Each project is reviewed using professional standards for BB certification.
- Green Belt certification (mandatory)
- Demonstrated project experience
- Familiarity with basic statistics
- Become a transformation leader in your organization
- Deliver strategic, measurable results across functions
- Master advanced analytics and Lean leadership
- Lead digital and operational transformation
- Accelerate your career toward Master Black Belt
- Gain one of the most respected certifications in business excellence
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