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Scott Bales Consulting Academy
Black Belt Flagship - Manufacturing Transformation

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification

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The flagship SB Academy certification for manufacturing leaders, operational excellence professionals, CI leaders, plant managers, consultants, and project leaders expected to deliver $100,000+ annualized impact.

Certification Standard

Black Belt is the serious one.

This course is built as an operational excellence leadership program, not a vocabulary course. Students are expected to understand project governance, financial validation, advanced DMAIC judgment, root cause validation, change leadership, and coaching.

Project ROI Standard

Recommended Black Belt project impact: $100,000+ annualized ROI.

Server 13 Ready

Modules teach what evidence Server 13 should challenge: weak baselines, weak causes, questionable savings, missing controls, and poor sustainment.

Certificate System

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Certificate Preview

Earn a premium printable certificate.

Complete the training and pass the final certification exam with a score of 90% or higher to generate your official Scott Bales Consulting Academy certificate.

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Advanced project-leader certification with recommended $100,000+ annualized project impact.

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Black Belt Modules

Module 01

Black Belt Leadership, Certification Standard and Executive Expectations

Lead manufacturing transformation with financial accountability.

Module 02

Strategic Deployment and Project Portfolio Thinking

Connect projects to strategy, scorecards, and executive priorities.

Module 03

Advanced Voice of the Customer and Stakeholder Requirements

Translate stakeholder needs into measurable ctqs.

Module 04

CTQ Flowdown and Requirement Translation

Connect customer need to process inputs, outputs, metrics, and controls.

Module 05

Project Portfolio Selection and Financial Prioritization

Select projects by roi, risk, urgency, feasibility, and strategic fit.

Module 06

Advanced Project Charter Development

Build executive-ready charters with scope, risk, team, timeline, and business case.

Module 07

Advanced Process Mapping and Value Stream Thinking

Map flow, handoffs, queue time, information flow, and constraints.

Module 08

Data Collection Systems and Baseline Integrity

Design data plans that produce trustworthy baselines.

Module 09

Measurement System Analysis for Black Belts

Evaluate repeatability, reproducibility, agreement, and measurement error.

Module 10

Statistics for Black Belts Without Academic Overload

Use statistics for practical decisions.

Module 11

Hypothesis Testing and Practical Decision Making

Validate differences without reacting to noise.

Module 12

Regression, Correlation and Relationship Analysis

Evaluate input-output relationships without confusing correlation with cause.

Module 13

Advanced Pareto and Stratification

Expose hidden drivers by product, shift, machine, customer, and time.

Module 14

Advanced Root Cause Validation

Move from suspected causes to verified causes.

Module 15

Cause and Effect Matrix

Prioritize process inputs against ctqs.

Module 16

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

Prioritize process risk and failure exposure.

Module 17

Risk Management and Project Governance

Manage risk, decision gates, escalation, and sponsor alignment.

Module 18

Change Management and Stakeholder Buy-In

Lead adoption through communication and accountability.

Module 19

Control Systems and Sustainment

Build controls that survive operational pressure.

Module 20

Financial Validation and Benefit Tracking

Validate hard savings, soft savings, and assumptions.

Module 21

ROI, Cost Modeling and Executive Impact

Connect improvement to ebitda, cash, capacity, quality, and delivery.

Module 22

Project Storyboarding and Executive Communication

Tell the project story with evidence, decisions, impact, and controls.

Module 23

Coaching Green Belts and Building Capability

Coach project leaders and challenge weak logic.

Module 24

Server 13 Black Belt Project Validation

Prepare a complete evidence package for rigorous validation.