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“We are using the Gem­ba Acad­e­my pro­gram to help Estab­lish a lean man­u­fac­tur­ing cul­ture with­in our man­u­fac­tur­ing team and union work­force. Gem­ba Acad­e­my has devel­oped two lean six sig­ma black belts, which has helped our team tremen­dous­ly. The Gem­ba Acad­e­my train­ing has pro­vid­ed essen­tial infor­ma­tion for the man­u­fac­tur­ing team. Since imple­ment­ing the pro­gram, we have gained time to work on process improve­ment because now we see the prob­lems before they start. We have estab­lished a cul­ture of account­abil­i­ty and self-aware­ness in inter­nal process­es. We’re now in the process of becom­ing lean cham­pi­ons. The pro­gram has helped them devel­op process man­age­ment skills and enhanced their vision of iden­ti­fy­ing waste. The plant uti­liza­tion has increased because we have reduced the num­ber of rework hours. I rec­om­mend all com­pa­nies uti­lize schools like Gem­ba acad­e­my because it will strength­en your staff. We must invest in our team to help the indi­vid­u­al’s over­all suc­cess and the com­pa­ny’s objectives.”

“I took the Lean Six Sig­ma Black Belt cer­ti­fi­ca­tion course pro­vid­ed by Gem­ba Acad­e­my. The course is well designed and struc­tured with real-world exam­ples and prac­ti­cal approach­es for apply­ing the Six Sig­ma method­olo­gies. What I learned from this course are not only the guide­lines and tools for Lean Six Sig­ma Prac­ti­tion­ers but also the way of think­ing about improve­ments. My expe­ri­ence with the one-on-one coach­ing was fan­tas­tic and ben­e­fi­cial. My coach Ron, is a pas­sion­ate and inspi­ra­tional coach with a wealth of expe­ri­ence on the sub­ject. When­ev­er I got stuck on under­stand­ing the con­tent or had a ques­tion, he helped me out with great patience. I real­ly appre­ci­ate his efforts on this jour­ney. I would def­i­nite­ly rec­om­mend this course to who­ev­er has an inter­est in Lean Six Sig­ma. It’s one of the most valu­able cours­es I’ve taken.”

“I want to thank you and all of Gem­ba Academy’s staff for the work you do. I have learned so much from your team! We have had Gem­ba Acad­e­my at Jam­co Amer­i­ca as a resource for the past cou­ple of years. I have watched, read, and lis­tened to all ver­sions of your con­tent, from both the office and from home; and still have not exhaust­ed what you have avail­able. I addi­tion­al­ly enjoy shar­ing your work with peo­ple through­out the com­pa­ny in work­shops, JIT train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty emails, and lunch & learns. The influ­ence and val­ue you bring to both our Lean Jour­ney and espe­cial­ly my per­son­al Jour­ney has been more than you can imagine.”

“Through­out my expe­ri­ence with Gem­ba Acad­e­my and its staff, they’ve always treat­ed me more like a part­ner than a cus­tomer, and their inter­ac­tion with our orga­ni­za­tion has been a bench­mark for cus­tomer engage­ment. Since we’ve begun uti­liz­ing their Black Belt Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram, we’ve seen areas with­in the orga­ni­za­tion trans­formed from ​“this is how we’ve always done it,” into Lean, effi­cien­cy-cen­tric pro­duc­tion envi­ron­ments. Gem­ba Acad­e­my’s exper­tise and first-rate con­tent have been a major con­tribut­ing fac­tor to our organization’s suc­cess with con­tin­u­ous improvement.”

“The stu­dents in my Mas­ter of Sci­ence Man­age­ment: Oper­a­tional Excel­lence class enjoyed using Gem­ba Acad­e­my. The stu­dents were each assigned to pre­pare a 15 – 20 minute pre­sen­ta­tion as their final. They were to select a mod­ule from the Gem­ba Acad­e­my School of Lean that inter­est­ed them or one that they felt could help them in their pro­fes­sion­al or per­son­al lives and then ​‘teach’ that tool to the class. What amazed me was that out of 19 stu­dents, 17 dif­fer­ent lean tools were cho­sen for their pre­sen­ta­tions. I thought that I would get more dupli­cate pre­sen­ta­tions than that, but it shows that Gem­ba Acad­e­my offers stu­dents the chance to broad­en their knowl­edge of OE tools and meth­ods that tru­ly inter­ests them. And, save for 3 or 4 pre­sen­ta­tions, the sub­jects cho­sen were ones that were not cov­ered in my class. The stu­dents took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to expand their knowl­edge through their pre­sen­ta­tions using the Gem­ba Acad­e­my resource.”

“The Lean Prac­ti­tion­er course and coach­ing made this edu­ca­tion a true Lean trans­for­ma­tion for me per­son­al­ly. I feel I just start­ed this jour­ney. There is so much for me left to learn, but every time I exchange ideas with my asso­ciates and engage with them and their ideas mate­ri­al­ize, I feel ener­gized to keep learn­ing and pro­vid­ing sup­port. The Gem­ba Acad­e­my coach­ing style real­ly helped me along the way, with amaz­ing exam­ples from their rich expe­ri­ence. Thank you for shar­ing that with me!”