To build a successful business, you need employees who understand and deliver tangible, bottom-line benefits and sustainable, process improvements. To help develop these people and ensure you achieve results, SSA & Company has created the most effective Open Enrollment Lean and Six Sigma training program available.

We have been developing and delivering process improvement training for more than a dozen years through Six Sigma Academy.  During this time, we have seen classroom lectures and e-learning become the accepted standard.  But these methods alone do not fully prepare students for the challenges inherent in real-life business situations.  Instead, it is the hands-on project management work that happens outside the classroom and on the company floor that is critical to the development and growth of process improvement leaders.

At SSA & Company, we offer process improvement training courses and certifications in Six Sigma and Lean methodologies including Gold Belt (Black Belt), Silver Belt (Green Belt), Master Black Belt, Practical Lean and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).  In addition, we deliver a variety of our own unique business process improvement courses including Change Capacities, Integrated Business Leader, and Innovation Expert that focus on helping your organization realize quantifiable, business results.  Companies such as ConocoPhillips, Heinz, AXA, Deutsche Bank, MetLife and Alpharma have utilized our business process improvement training classes to discover millions of dollars in savings.

Known throughout the operations consulting industry as “Open Enrollment,” our Master Black Belts partner with you and provide one-on-one process improvement training and mentoring. We want our students to do more than “know the textbook”; we want them to think beyond the frameworks and understand how to achieve results.   Having trained thousands of students, we know our Open Enrollment training program delivers the meaningful bottom-line benefits and cost-reductions that you and your CEO want to see.

Below you will find a list of our Open Enrollment training classes.

Six Sigma Gold Belt™ Certification
An accelerated training and coaching certification program for those looking to earn their Black Belt.  The course provides additional one-on-one coaching and mentoring support and results in tangible closed project savings of $500K. Learn More…

SIx Sigma Silver Belt™ Certification
A shorter Black Belt program designed for those seeking a Green Belt certification with mentoring to help candidates discover how key Lean Six Sigma tools are blended and sequenced and applied to solve their business problems.
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Six Sigma Master Black Belt Certification
A rigorous development and certification program for managing Black Belts that have been selected to lead their respective businesses through process improvement and process redesign activities.  Learn More…

Integrated Business Leader Workshop
A “Mini-MBA” course designed to provide a unique blend of training and hands-on application and to align business acumen with modern process improvement tools.  Learn More…

Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) Black Belt Certification
A DFSS certification program focused on innovation design or redesign of processes/products/services by understanding the Voice of the Customer, requirements flow-down, innovative design technologies and process capability roll-up. This program is designed as an extension of Black Belt certification. Learn More…

Change Capacities
Our change leadership program focused on improving your ability to influence, lead and support any change initiative at your organization and understand the tactical steps required to ensure solutions are implemented and results are achieved. Learn More…

Practical Lean
Lean principles, tools and techniques have proven to be very effective at identifying and eliminating waste and non-value-added activities in existing business processes. Applying Lean methods requires a hands-on approach of literally walking the process.  Learn More…

Innovation Expert
Unfortunately, the increased focus on cost cutting and process efficiency has caused many firms to push innovation to the sidelines, effectively allowing the need for near-term efficiency to undermine long-term growth potential.  This doesn’t have to be the case.  Innovation, when approached in a systematic and structured fashion, can, and does, enable real and measurable business results.  Learn More…