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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training

Become a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Holding a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt demonstrates your expertise in minimizing waste and providing premium quality products and services. This online Six Sigma training and certification course will prepare you with the knowledge and credentials to lead projects and optimize team efficiency within an organization.

  • Entirely online and self-paced
  • Prepare for the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification exam
  • Certification exam cost included

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Course highlights Learn More

  • Flexible online learning
  • Taught by industry experts
  • Prepare for industry certification
  • Open enrolment program

What you'll learn Learn More

  • Advanced Lean Six Sigma tools
  • Project leadership and coaching
  • Data-driven process improvement

Learn More About Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training

Black Belts are a change agent in the organization. A Black Belt will be the project owner of an organizational quality improvement process. As project owner, they allocate team member responsibilities and resources, effectively overseeing a team of Green and Yellow Belts.

Black Belts use support tools such as Voice of the Customer (VOC), Lean, failure mode and effects analysis, and statistics. Six Sigma Black Belts are experts in these Six Sigma principles:

  • DMAIC
  • Design of experiments
  • Analysis of variance
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Probability distribution

Lean Six Sigma Black Belts may serve in one or more of the following capacities: Lean Six Sigma Leader, Project Management and Agile Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Director of Lean/Six Sigma, or simply Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

In our global economy, organizations constantly face rising costs of doing business and increasing competition in the marketplace. Lean Six Sigma principles and methodologies work to help organizations by streamlining processes to increase profit, cutting down on waste to decrease costs, improving effectiveness and efficiency to deliver more products and services, and providing ownership and accountability to help build effective teams.