What is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt?
A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt leads complex improvement projects, often across departments or sites, and coaches Green Belts. Black Belts use advanced statistics and designed experiments, and many work on improvement full time.
Who it is for
- Green Belts with at least two completed projects and measured results
- Continuous improvement and quality engineers
- Operational excellence and transformation teams
Before you join
- A Green Belt, with at least two completed projects and measured results.
- Comfort with basic statistics: capability, hypothesis tests and simple regression.
- A project for the course, big enough to need data from more than one team or site.
If you have strong statistics and project experience but no Green Belt, talk to us and we will check whether the Black Belt fits.
What you will cover
| Session | What is covered |
|---|---|
| Day 1, leading improvement | Deployment and roles, choosing projects that matter, the business case and financial benefits, stakeholders and change. |
| Day 2, Define and Lean in depth | Voice of the customer, CTQ trees, value stream analysis, flow and pull, quick changeover and total productive maintenance. |
| Day 3, Measure | Data collection plans, measurement system analysis for continuous and attribute data, and capability for normal and non-normal data. |
| Day 4, Analyse 1 | Hypothesis tests, ANOVA, non parametric tests, multi vari studies, sample size and power. |
| Day 5, Analyse 2 | Correlation, simple and multiple regression and an introduction to logistic regression, then a project review before block 2. |
| Day 6, designed experiments 1 | Planning experiments, full factorial designs, main effects and interactions. |
| Day 7, designed experiments 2 | Fractional factorials, screening, blocking, and confirming the results. |
| Day 8, Improve | Generating and choosing solutions, FMEA, mistake proofing, piloting and managing risk. |
| Day 9, Control | Statistical process control for every data type, control plans, standard work and sustaining the gain. |
| Day 10, leading the programme | Coaching Green Belts, running tollgate reviews, presenting results to leadership, and the final project review. |
How the two blocks work
- Block 1, days 1 to 5. Leading improvement, then Define, Measure and Analyse in depth, ending with a project review.
- Between the blocks, 3 to 4 weeks. Participants collect and analyse data on their own project, with support from the trainer.
- Block 2, days 6 to 10. Designed experiments, Improve and Control, and leading the programme, ending with a final project review.
Is Black Belt certification included?
Certification is optional. Everyone who completes the 10 days receives an Agile Visa Certificate of Completion.
Participants can also sit an independent, closed book Black Belt certification exam, taken online with remote supervision. The exam body marks it and issues the certificate, not Agile Visa. We arrange it for you and quote it as a separate line.
Agile Visa is a training provider. We are not accredited by, or a partner of, any exam body, and each exam body issues its own certificate.
Before this: the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. After it: the Master Black Belt. Or compare every belt.
What is included
- 10 days of live, instructor-led training in two blocks
- Full digital courseware, templates and practice data
- A Black Belt project reviewed between the blocks
- Agile Visa Certificate of Completion
- Optional independent Black Belt certification exam, quoted separately
- Post-course support from the training team
How it runs
- Private classes. Every programme runs for one company at a time, quoted per group rather than per seat, with examples from your industry.
- Live online or on site. Live online with the trainer in your working hours, wherever your team is, or at your premises for company groups. Travel for on site classes is quoted separately.
- Class size. Up to 25 people, so everyone works on a real process or project. Larger groups run as several classes.
- Language. Delivered in English.
- Malaysia. Programmes delivered by Agile Visa Sdn Bhd are HRD Corp claimable for eligible employers, subject to HRD Corp approval. See Lean Six Sigma training in Malaysia.
Where we deliver
We run Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training live online for teams anywhere in the world, in your working hours, and on site at your premises for company groups: across the Americas, the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. See where we deliver.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training cost?
We run it as a private class for your company and quote per group, not per seat. Tell us the number of people, the format and where they are, and we will send a quotation. Any certification exam fee is shown on its own line.
How long is Lean Six Sigma Black Belt?
10 days / 70 hours, live and instructor-led, online in your working hours or on site at your premises.
Who delivers the training?
Prashant Shinde, founder of Agile Visa, with 20+ years of delivery and 75,000+ professionals trained across 140+ countries. He earned the 6sigmastudy Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Six Sigma Green Belt in 2016.
Can our company use a training levy or fund?
In Malaysia, programmes delivered by Agile Visa Sdn Bhd are HRD Corp claimable for eligible employers, subject to HRD Corp approval: see Lean Six Sigma training in Malaysia. Elsewhere, companies usually pay from their training budget, and we provide the quotation, invoice and attendance records your own approval process needs.
Can I go straight to Black Belt without a Green Belt?
We recommend a Green Belt and at least two completed projects first, because the Black Belt builds on both. If you already lead projects with data, talk to us and we will look at your experience.
Why two blocks instead of 10 days in a row?
So each participant brings real data from their own project to block 2. The weeks between the blocks are where the statistics turn into results.
Do I need Minitab?
It helps at Black Belt level. We use Minitab or similar software if your company has it, and Excel where it does not.
Can the Black Belt run online?
Yes, live online with the trainer, in the same two blocks.
Is Lean Six Sigma certification recognised internationally?
There is no single official body for Lean Six Sigma anywhere in the world. Employers look at who issued the certificate, whether the exam was independent and supervised, and whether the person completed a real project. Our courses give you a real project and an Agile Visa certificate of completion, and an independent exam when you want one.
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