For Manufacturing Leaders

  • Solve Critical Business Problems Through Kaizen Events that Stick

We help you improve safety, productivity, quality, delivery, and cost through focused Kaizen facilitation and sustainable implementation.

The Challenges We Help Solve

Empower your workforce, boost profitability, and ensure long-term success. That’s the Kaizen Ninja way.

We’re passionate about helping you solve your biggest pain points and problems. Let us show you how we tailor our approach to fit your needs.

Nimble and flexible, we customize every engagement to your unique goals and objectives to ensure a winning experience.

We’ve helped our clients reduce time from order to delivery, and improve efficiencies and safety, while increasing revenues. We can help you too.

Kaizen: a mindset of continuous, incremental improvement. Focused on making things better, every day. It’s about everyone, everywhere, driving positive change.

Kaizen Event: A focused team effort to solve a critical business problem. Solutions are tested, improved, implemented, and sustained in under a week.

Kaizen Ninja: A world-class facilitator who guides teams to breakthrough results while building deep ownership, engagement, and lasting impact.

Breakthrough Assessment

Uncover your highest-value improvement opportunities during a one-day site visit.

Identify the barriers limiting performance and determine where Kaizen can deliver the fastest and most sustainable results.

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Kaizen Ninja Institute

Lead high-impact events. Drive lasting change.

This immersive, hands-on training is designed to transform you into a world-class Kaizen facilitator. In this 3-1/2 day program, you’ll learn proven facilitation and engagement techniques, prioritization strategies, and sustainability methods that deliver real, measurable results.

Sustainable Transformation

A transformational leadership and operational excellence experience.

This practical, story-driven leadership experience is designed to challenge conventional thinking, engage teams, and create momentum for meaningful, sustainable improvement.

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Kaizen Ninja Mentor Program

Get expert guidance and real-time feedback to facilitate high-impact events.

Gain hands-on experience and expert mentorship from the original Kaizen Ninjas. This immersive, ongoing program puts you at the heart of world-class Kaizen facilitation, guiding you through every step with real-time feedback and support.

The Kaizen Ninja, helping factory workers improve their safety and productivity on their manufacturing line.

Kaizen Ninja Facilitation

Solve your most critical business challenges in one week or less.

Get high-impact event design, preparation, and implementation - based on your feedback and objectives. Custom-built to solve your most pressing challenges. In one week or less, we’ll help your team drive sustainable real-time improvements with hands-on assistance and lasting results.

Results Accelerator

Scale sustainable improvement across teams, functions, and sites.

Within 90-180 days, you’ll build a leadership system that consistently delivers and sustains high-impact results across teams and sites, without dependency on outside support.

Testimonial from Andrew Koenig, CEO of CITY Furniture, regarding Process Improvement Partners, owned by Adam Lawrence and located in Lancaster Pennsylvania
Adam Lawrence, owner of Process Improvement Partners, with a Group of People Working on Process Improvement at a Kaizen event for their factory

Our Top Requested Services

  • Strategic Planning

  • Operations and Reliability Improvement

  • Innovation Acceleration

  • Cost Reduction

  • Changeover Reduction

  • Process Optimization

  • Best Practice Facilitation Training

Every engagement is customized to meet your specific needs.

About Adam Lawrence

Adam Lawrence is the creator of The Wheel of Sustainability, author, speaker, and facilitator behind more than 400 Kaizen events that have generated over $500 million in measurable business impact.

For decades, Adam has partnered with manufacturing leaders around the world to solve critical business problems related to safety, productivity, quality, reliability, changeover reduction, and lead time. His unique approach aligns leadership, engages teams, and delivers results that stick.

Combining extensive real-world experience with advanced Lean training through the University of Michigan and Shingijutsu USA, Adam helps organizations achieve breakthrough results through practical, sustainable improvement.

  • 400+ Kaizen Events Facilitated

  • $500M+ Business Impact Delivered

  • Creator of The Wheel of Sustainability

  • Author • Speaker • Facilitator

  • Global Manufacturing Experience

If you're looking for an experienced partner who literally wrote the book on sustainability, you're in the right place.

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Coming February 24, 2021 - click the image to preorder!

Want to learn more about sustaining your improvements? Read my book.

We solve problems every day.

We want our solutions to stick, so the problems don’t come back. Sometimes, even with the best efforts and intentions, the same problems resurface. There must be a better way to sustain the results you work so hard to achieve.

The Wheel of Sustainability is the better way.

This book will help you strengthen your leadership commitment to engage and empower your teams with the Wheel and sustain their solutions. With case studies and step by step explanations, you will have the tools to help your organization win.

Testimonial from Mark Farina, Operations Manager at Church and Dwight, regarding Process Improvement Partners, owned by Adam Lawrence and located in Lancaster Pennsylvania

“The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.”

- Shigeo Shingo