Lean Healthcare Black Belt Certification Program

Who is this program for?

This program is aimed at health professionals such as Quality Improvement Specialists, Operations Managers, Medical Directors, Clinical Leads, Project Managers, Patient Safety Leaders and Nurse Practitioners from organizations across the health sector including hospitals, health authorities, mental health and addictions, youth services, long term care, public and community health.

Testimonials

“Doing a Lean Healthcare Black with Leading Edge allowed me to go beyond learning about lean principles and tools from the Green Belt and focus on how to lead in a way that supports a continuous improvement culture. Ultimately, Lean is about people coming together to improve how they provide value to their clients. The focus of my black belt project was to embed hoshin kanri into our organization’s annual planning and reporting processes to allow for great alignment in our efforts. My assigned mentor Chris Chadwick was very supportive. He provided me with advice to overcome the challenges I was experiencing, and great feedback on my assignments.

The black belt project resulted in increased awareness amongst management about our planning context, more integrated planning conversations, and shifting the detailed planning closer to when the work would start. There is still more work ahead to continue improving our planning processes, but the work created positive changes within our organization.”