Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Supplement Your Management and Team Leadership Skills with Black Belt Training

Develop your interpersonal skills as a leader and enhance your Lean Six Sigma proficiency to lead impactful and sustainable projects that align with strategic goals.

What You'll Learn

In the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt program, you’ll gain the knowledge to master the principles and philosophy of Lean Six Sigma methodology and manage process improvement projects that drive efficiency and lead to higher quality products, processes and services.

Project Assessment and Planning
Team Dynamics and Change Management
Coaching and Mentoring
Advanced Statistical Process Control
Design of Experiments
Sustaining Process Optimizations

Throughout the program, you will also complete scenario-based project assessments to test your comprehension of each week’s material. These simulated assignments are reviewed by your instructor and help you understand the situational purpose and applicability of advanced Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques.

Program Outcomes

This Black Belt program builds upon the lessons taught in Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training and teaches you how to situationally apply Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques for the projects you lead and support.

At the conclusion of this eight-week program, you should expect to be able to:

Manage a portfolio of Lean Six Sigma projects consistent with organizational needs
Execute a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project through the five phases of DMAIC
Apply appropriate mentoring and coaching methods to assist Lean Six Sigma Green Belts in their projects
Assess and apply appropriate Lean Six Sigma tools during the execution of a Black Belt project
Employ software programs (Minitab and/or MS Excel) to validate data and identify potential solutions

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Program Details

Program Duration

8 weeks

Start Date

July 8

Program Format

Online

Tuesdays

7 -8 p.m. CT

Tuition

$3,995

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Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

8.0

Professional Development Units (PDUs)

Who should enroll?

This program covers the advanced tools and approaches a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt needs to learn to take their process improvement skills to the next level.
Lean Six Sigma Black Belts are typically professionals who possess or aspire to higher-level leadership and management positions. Leading process improvement projects, Lean Six Sigma Black Belts guide teams and mentor Lean Six Sigma Green Belts.

The advanced Lean Six Sigma concepts taught in this program are applicable across virtually any industry, including manufacturing, healthcare, government, technology, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, engineering and business.

_{*Completing the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt program through SMU CAPE is a prerequisite to register for this Lean Six Sigma Black Belt program. If you have earned a Green Belt credential from another institution or organization and can provide proof of completion, the prerequisite requirement may be waived, upon university approval.}

SMU alumni are eligible for a 10% tuition reduction.

Why SMU?

SMU Continuing and Professional Education has offered noncredit learning programs since 1953.
SMU is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Lean Six Sigma programs are taught by industry practitioners who have at least a Black Belt certification designation.
Live, instructor-led, virtual Lean Six Sigma Black Belt class sessions are held for one hour every week.
Students who successfully complete the program will be issued a digital Lean Six Sigma Black Belt badge and certificate through Credly.

Instructor Spotlight: Glenn Johnson

Glenn Johnson is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Lean expert with more than 10 years of experience in process improvement. Johnson’s specialties include control systems, manufacturing, power generation and optimization of complex systems, and he specializes in Six Sigma DMAIC, Lean 5S, Lean Kaizen, value stream mapping and process mapping.

Program Content Summary

Week 1: Introduction to Lean Six Sigma

Lean Principles and Concepts
Principles of the Toyota Way
Advanced Six Sigma Tools and Concepts
Design for Six Sigma
Lean vs. DMAIC

Week 2: Project Assessment and Planning

Project Selection and Valuation
Hoshin Planning and KPIs
Project and Portfolio Tracking and Reporting
Project Management Tools

Week 3: Roles, Team Dynamics and Change Management

Effective Lean Six Sigma Teams
Coaching and Mentoring
Organizational Culture and Change Management
Stakeholder Management

Week 4: Define and Measure Phases

Voice of the Customer
Voice of the Employee
Voice of the Business
Voice of the Process
Process Variation
Advanced Statistical Process Control
Advanced MSA and Metrology
Running Process Capability Studies

Week 5: Analyze Phase

Advanced Analysis Tools
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Advanced Regression Analysis
Design of Experiments

Week 6: Improve Phase

Generating and Evaluating Solutions
Planning and Supporting Solution Deployment
Visual Management
Creating the Future State

Week 7: Control Phase

Statistical Process Control
Standardization and Replication
Sustaining Improvements
The Control System

Week 8: Pulling it all Together

Project Closure
PDCA
Project Documentation
Problem Solving Approaches

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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Supplement Your Management and Team Leadership Skills with Black Belt Training