Lean Sustainability

Explore how Lean practices, integrated with sustainability principles, can drive operational excellence while addressing social, economic, and environmental goals. Get equipped with the tools to identify and eliminate Green Wastes, ensuring your Lean management style contributes to a more sustainable future.

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Program Content & Structure

Introducing Sustainability through Lean

  • Introducing the triple bottom line
  • Sustainability-oriented innovation and eco-efficiency
  • Lean sustainability – purpose, goals and applications
  • Identifying the seven Green Wastes
  • Commencing a Lean sustainability initiative
Understanding the Lean and Green Current State
  • What is a green value stream?
  • Traditional and environmental value stream activities
  • Developing a green value stream map (VSM) – current and future state
  • Achieving a green state: the pursuit of perfection
  • Lean tools for sustainability
    • Kaizen rapid improvement
    • 5S workplace organization
    • Mistake proofing
    • Layout improvements
    • Just-in-time delivery
Implementing and Realizing Lean Sustainability
  • Setting your green vision and gaining corporate support
  • Understanding the tree concept
  • Life cycle analysis (LCA) and practical application
  • The integrated Lean sustainability system
  • Self assessment model

Why This Program?

This training is tailored for Lean practitioners and bridges the gap between traditional Lean methodologies and the pressing need for sustainable practices across various sectors. Through engaging case studies, activities, hands-on assignments and a practical toolkit, participants will gain an in-depth understanding of how to apply Lean practices to improve sustainability and ensure environmental, social and economic responsibility.

What You'll Learn

  • Identify and address Green Wastes effectively within their organization
  • Integrate sustainability concepts with Lean management to drive significant improvements
  • Apply Lean tools to enhance the sustainability impacts of improvement initiatives
  • Contribute to strategies for integrating sustainability within Lean operations

Who is this Program For?

This program is aimed at professionals with Lean experience leading continuous improvement initiatives within organizations across any sector.

Learn From Leaders

All our Sustainability programs are developed and delivered by accomplished experts. Experts who have worked at the coalface and have tangible experience putting theory to practical use in real-world environments.

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Janine LeFort

A process improvement professional with over 20 years’ experience, Janine is known for her ability to build and implement cross functional processes and systems through utilizing superior knowledge transfer techniques. Janine is a senior Lean trainer delivering training at White, Yellow, Green and Black Belt levels. Likewise, she is a professor in business and supply chain at George Brown College – a public, fully accredited college of applied arts and technology with three full campuses...

Key Information

The program can be delivered through in-person instructor-led or live online instructor-led training for groups of participants.

Program/Contact Hours
3 days
Prerequisites
None
Assessment
None
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The program is delivered for groups of participants at your organization through in-person instructor-led training over three days or live online instructor-led training over six half day sessions.

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