Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Healthcare)

📘Program Overview

The Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CLSSBB) program equips healthcare leaders with comprehensive Black Belt skills to strategically drive large-scale quality-improvement projects.

Participants build mastery of statistical tools, leadership facilitation, and coaching techniques to champion continuous improvement across their organizations, coaching Green Belts through every phase of DMAIC.

🎯Program Rationale

• Enterprise-level improvement requires advanced analytics and leadership.
• Black Belts multiply impact by coaching and facilitating others.
• Advanced statistical methods validate causes and optimize processes.
• Strategic project selection ties improvement to ROI.

👥Target Audience

• Experienced Green Belts and improvement leaders
• Quality and operational-excellence managers
• Clinical and operational leaders driving large projects
• Professionals coaching improvement teams

✅Program Objectives

• Build on Green Belt knowledge with advanced Black Belt methodologies.
• Select, scope, and manage impactful, strategy-aligned projects.
• Demonstrate influence and facilitation to lead teams.
• Coach Green Belts and practitioners through all DMAIC phases.
• Test measurement systems, sample, and assess process capability.
• Perform hypothesis testing and design of experiments (DOE).
• Apply appropriate control charts and visual management.
• Construct and present comprehensive project storyboards.

🏆Learning Outcomes

• Lead large-scale improvement programs aligned with strategy.
• Apply MSA, capability analysis, and hypothesis testing.
• Plan and interpret designed experiments.
• Coach teams and manage cross-functional change.
• Communicate results to executives and boards.

📚Program Structure

• Module 1: Expanding on Green Belt Knowledge
• Integration of Yellow, Green, and Black Belt competencies
• Advanced application of Lean Six Sigma in healthcare
• Module 2: Selecting & Leading Black Belt Projects
• Identifying and scoping large-scale projects
• Aligning with organizational strategy and ROI
• Module 3: Facilitation & Coaching Skills
• Influencing cross-functional teams
• Coaching Green Belts through DMAIC
• Conflict management and leadership communication
• Module 4: Advanced Measurement & Analysis
• Measurement systems analysis (MSA)
• Sampling and process-capability assessment
• Hypothesis testing
• Module 5: Design of Experiments & Controls
• Planning and executing DOE
• Selecting and interpreting control charts
• Applying visual-management tools
• Module 6: Project Documentation & Storyboarding
• Building effective storyboards
• Communicating results to executives and boards

📝Assessment & Certification

• Knowledge assessments throughout
• Scenario-based coaching exercises
• Advanced statistical case work using healthcare data
• Capstone: a full Black Belt project with storyboard
• Certification examination

🚀Capstone / Practical Project

Complete a full Black Belt project — selected for strategic value — applying advanced statistics, coaching Green Belts, and presenting a results storyboard to leadership.

🏥Organizational Impact

• Large-scale, strategy-aligned improvements
• A coached, capable improvement workforce
• Stronger analytical decision-making
• Sustained ROI from improvement programs

📈Career Pathway

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Operational Excellence Manager
• Quality & Performance Director
• Improvement Program Lead

Exam Fee: $495