Disruptive Lean Six Sigma Certification

Exclusive certification opportunity from CareerLearning.

Dr. Stephen Schmidt trained the world’s first Six Sigma Black Belts and Master Black Belts at numerous Fortune 500 companies. He created Disruptive Lean Six Sigma to make Six Sigma more attainable by reducing complex statistics, acronyms, Japanese terms, and esoteric examples. You'll learn how to use this methodology to accomplish more in your organization.

What's Included:

Understand the history of Lean Six Sigma
Grow your emotional intelligence and have a heart that is team-oriented
Learn a radically new way to understand and execute successful projects
Improve your human capital and pursue excellence for your organization
Understand the basic Disruptive Lean Six Sigma concepts and graphical tools
Learn where and how you can use DLSS in your organization
Estimate the cost of not changing, the amount of change necessary, the cost of changing, and the potential return on investment from changing
Discover why and when radical improvements must be directed at technology breakthroughs, business model disruptions, or a cultural movement
Develop the ability to participate on any team engaged in a DLSS project
Document the intellectual capital gained from any DLSS project
Participate in class group exercises and discussions

Training Overview

Get mentorship from a Lean Six Sigma founder and earn a certification. Learn how to increase efficiency from a Lean Six Sigma founder.

Disruptive Lean Six Sigma (DLSS) is an easy-to-understand graphical approach to achieve organizational excellence and world-class efficiency. You can use it to radically improve well-managed projects and accomplish more while building a culture committed to making those improvements endure.

Dr. Stephen Schmidt trained the world’s first Six Sigma Black Belts and Master Black Belts at numerous Fortune 500 companies. He then created DLSS to make Six Sigma more attainable by reducing complex statistics, acronyms, Japanese terms, and esoteric examples. Steve will show you how to use this methodology to accomplish more in your organization.

Steve will engage in regular email conversations with you to discuss your specific projects, challenges, and goals. You will have direct contact with the DLSS creator, who will serve as your interactive personal consultant, mentor, and advisor.

In this only opportunity to earn a DLSS Certification, you will:

Understand the history of Lean Six Sigma
Grow your emotional intelligence and have a heart that is team-oriented
Learn a radically new way to understand and execute successful projects
Improve your human capital and pursue excellence for your organization
Understand the basic Disruptive Lean Six Sigma concepts and graphical tools
Learn where and how you can use DLSS in your organization
Estimate the cost of not changing, the amount of change necessary, the cost of changing, and the potential return on investment from changing
Discover why and when radical improvements must be directed at technology breakthroughs, business model disruptions, or a cultural movement
Develop the ability to participate on any team engaged in a DLSS project
Document the intellectual capital gained from any DLSS project
Participate in class group exercises and discussions

You will receive an information-packed PDF book in advance. By reading the content before each session, you can use the time with Steve to interact, get clarification, and ask specific questions about your situation and projects.

Disruptive Lean Six Sigma Certification

Interactive Session 1: Introduction To Disruptive Lean Six Sigma

Definition of Disruptive Lean Six Sigma (DLSS)
Overview of DLSS and key players
Culture survey and response to change
Three business phases to develop world-class organizations
Simple examples for DLSS

Interactive Session 2: Developing The Heart Of All DLSS Experts

Self-awareness
Engagement
PTSD
Emotional intelligence (E.Q.)
Personal communication
Conflict management
Ethics
Leadership evaluation
Building healthy relationships
Sequential Radical Positive Change (SRPC)
Psychology of change
How to make change happen

Interactive Session 3: Implementing Disruptive Lean Six Sigma: The DMAIC Approach

Disruptive Lean Six Sigma Change Model: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC)
How to effectively identify and complete a Disruptive Lean Six Sigma project
Proper key performance indicators (KPIs) for your department or team

Interactive Session 4: DLSS Steps For The Define Phase

Begin to apply DLSS tools to your project
Practice applying the 12 steps to your project

Interactive Session 5: Appendices: Implementation, Tools, And Data

Design for DLSS
DLSS project summary worksheet
Data governance
Testimonials

Upon certification, you will receive a Credly digital credential to demonstrate your knowledge. You can share your verifiable badge in email, LinkedIn, and other online profiles.

Who Should Attend?

Project managers
Program directors
Quality management system managers
Plant managers
Operations managers
Human resources professionals
Location managers
Division supervisors

Supervisors
Managers
Leadership team members
Department, division, or branch managers
Chief executives
Executive directors
Senior management

Expert Presenter

Stephen R. Schmidt, Ph.D.

Created Disruptive Lean Six Sigma (DLSS)
On the original development team for Six Sigma at Motorola University
Trained the world’s first Master Black Belts and Black Belts at Motorola, Texas Instruments, Asea Brown Boveri, IBM, Kodak, and Digital Equipment
Trained most of the original Master Black Belts and Black Belts at General Electric, Raytheon, Sony, Lockheed Martin, H.E.B., U.T. Austin Business School, Abbott Laboratories, and many more
Nominated for the first annual Dr. Mikel “J” Harry “Six Sigma” Lifetime Achievement Award
Founder, Chief Executive Officer of World Class Quest
Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. and B52 pilot
Tenured Professor U.S. Air Force Academy
Founder of Air Academy Associates, a multimillion-dollar, international consulting company
Founder of Enchanted Springs Ranch
Adjunct faculty for Motorola Six Sigma Research Institute, Incarnate Word University, University of Texas (Austin), the Defense Systems Management College, and Alamo Colleges training for the City of San Antonio
B.S. in Mathematics from the U.S. Air Force Academy
M.S. in Operations Research from The University of Texas
Ph.D. in Applied Statistics and minor in Behavioral Science from the University of Northern Colorado

See What Others Are Saying

"Identifying the KPIs and related metrics for each step was very helpful in flushing out methodology for measuring our success in how we serve our customers. The metrics will also allow us to communicate to management in concrete terms how we are improving as well as where our challenges lie in order to justify support for improvement. It will be an intentional process, but I look forward to utilizing that lens on our current processes and definitely will integrate it as we document new ones."

-Sherrie T.

"I just want to thank you tremendously for the course you created and the material you are delivering. I have shifted my mindset tremendously because of the need for reflection and major improvements in my life. It has positively affected me professionally and personally. Surprisingly it has also been amazing for my marriage. I have been with my wife since the age of 19 and she has noticed and informed me that she appreciates the changes I have made and we haven't even completed the training yet."

-Lafayette C.

"I appreciated the blend of organizational change management, emotional intelligence, and the six sigma discipline."

-Katherine E.

"Key Takeaways: The importance of personal work needed to be done by leaders (reflection, emotional intelligence, etc). and The importance of documenting intellectual capital. Very valuable tools to analyze projects for waste, etc."

-Mary U.

"Very good. I love the personal examples in work and personal life. Steve' tone and approach are very good for learning."

"Favorite Part - The vivd examples of potential cosequences of not being self- aware, even if a person is viewed as "Successful."

-Martin K.

"Key Takeaway - As the sessions progress, I understand that I need to continue to work on coming up with better KPI's for my team."

-Andrew K.

Credits

This program has been approved for 7.5 general recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.
This program is valid for 7.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.

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