About Adam Lawrence
Helping Organizations Create Results that Last
For more than 30 years, Adam Lawrence has helped organizations solve critical business problems, engage teams, and create sustainable results through practical continuous improvement.
400+ Kaizen Events Facilitated
$500M+ Business Impact Created
Creator of The Wheel of Sustainability
Author | Speaker | Facilitator
Why I Do This Work
After graduating from Virginia Tech with a degree in Industrial Engineering, I began my career helping organizations improve performance through Lean, Kaizen, and other continuous improvement efforts.
The results were often impressive. Productivity increased, quality improved, lead times shortened, and teams solved problems that had frustrated them for years.
But I kept seeing the same challenge. Many of those improvements didn't last.
Over time, I realized that achieving results wasn't the hardest part of improvement. Sustaining them was.
That realization changed the direction of my career.
Instead of focusing only on improvement tools, I made it my mission to understand why some organizations sustain results while others struggle to hold onto them.
After hundreds of Kaizen events, leadership workshops, and transformation efforts, clear patterns began to emerge. The organizations that sustained results consistently demonstrated the same leadership behaviors, systems, and disciplines.
The realization was simple:
Sustainability is not a tool problem.
It is a leadership process.
Those observations eventually became the foundation for The Wheel of Sustainability.
Today, that framework guides my work as a facilitator, mentor, coach, speaker, and author.
Because creating improvement is important.
Creating results that last is what truly changes organizations.
The Philosophy That Guides My Work
“The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.”
- Shigeo Shingo
My Four Guiding Principles
Through hundreds of Kaizen events, leadership workshops, and transformation efforts, I've found that sustainable improvement consistently comes back to four fundamental principles.
People Matter
The people closest to the work often hold the best ideas.
Results Matter
Ideas become meaningful when they create real-world results.
Leadership Matters
Leaders create the environment where improvement can thrive.
Sustainability Matters
Results that last create lasting value.
The tools may change. The challenges may differ. The principles remain the same.
Real Results. Real Organizations.
These aren't recommendations. These are implemented results achieved through Kaizen facilitation, leadership engagement, and sustainable improvement systems.
These examples are not exceptions. They are representative of the results organizations can achieve through focused Kaizen facilitation and sustainable improvement systems.
On average, each Kaizen event facilitated by Adam Lawrence generates more than $1.2 million in annual business impact while building the leadership engagement and organizational capability needed to sustain those gains.
Meet the Team
Adam Lawrence
Founder | Facilitator | Speaker | Author
Adam Lawrence is the founder of Process Improvement Partners LLC, creator of The Wheel of Sustainability, and the facilitator behind the Kaizen Ninja approach to continuous improvement.
For more than 30 years, Adam has helped organizations solve critical business problems, engage teams, and create sustainable results across manufacturing, distribution, service industries, and government agencies.
Known to many as the "Kaizen Ninja," Adam combines practical improvement methods, leadership engagement, and proven sustainability systems to help organizations achieve measurable business impact that lasts.
Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Adam works with organizations around the world while staying grounded by his most important advisory board—his wife Peggy and son Tyler.
Peggy Lawrence
Client Experience and Operations Manager
Peggy Lawrence serves as the Client Experience and Operations Manager for Process Improvement Partners, helping ensure that client engagements, communications, and day-to-day operations run smoothly.
Known for her organization, attention to detail, and customer-first mindset, Peggy helps create a positive experience for clients before, during, and after every engagement.
Behind the scenes, she provides the structure, support, and steady hand that allow the business, and Adam, to focus on helping organizations create results that last.
Cody Bateman
Strategic Partner
Cody Bateman is a Strategic Partner of Process Improvement Partners and an experienced continuous improvement practitioner, business leader, and entrepreneur.
Over the past 30 years, Cody has helped organizations across a wide range of industries improve performance, develop leaders, and build cultures of continuous improvement. His experience includes Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification, leadership roles with GE Medical Systems and Verizon, and the successful launch of multiple startup companies.
Having supported more than 80 organizations in 11 countries, Cody brings a practical, results-oriented perspective to operational excellence, leadership development, and organizational transformation.
When client needs require additional facilitation, coaching, or specialized expertise, Cody serves as a trusted extension of the Process Improvement Partners team.
Carolina DeLeon
Strategic Partner
Carolina De Leon is a Strategic Partner of Process Improvement Partners and an experienced facilitator focused on continuous improvement, operational excellence, and business transformation.
With a background spanning manufacturing, laboratory operations, recycling, and customer service environments, Carolina brings a practical, data-driven approach to helping teams solve problems and improve performance. Since beginning her Kaizen facilitation journey, she has consistently helped organizations achieve meaningful productivity improvements while building engagement and ownership within teams.
Carolina combines strong analytical skills with a passion for simplifying complex challenges, creating solutions that are both effective and sustainable.
When client needs require additional facilitation support, Carolina serves as a trusted extension of the Process Improvement Partners team.
Meet The Process Improvement Puppy
Sadie
Chief Morale Officer
Sadie joined Process Improvement Partners in 2021 and quickly became an important member of the team.
She specializes in greeting visitors, supervising Zoom calls, boosting morale, and occasionally reminding everyone that work should be fun. She also has a particular interest in "dog-earing" the pages of Adam's book and conducting quality inspections of unattended snacks.
When she's not keeping the team on its toes, Sadie can usually be found chasing squirrels, barking at cars, welcoming guests, or searching for opportunities to improve office morale.
Her academic achievements include graduating with honors from PetSmart Puppy School and earning recognition as class valedictorian at PetSmart Intermediate Training School.
The Wheel of Sustainability
After facilitating hundreds of Kaizen events and transformation efforts, Adam discovered that achieving results wasn't the hardest part of improvement.
Sustaining them was.
The Wheel of Sustainability was developed to identify the leadership behaviors, systems, and disciplines that help organizations transform short-term improvement into lasting results.
Today, the framework serves as the foundation for Adam's facilitation, coaching, leadership development, and speaking engagements.
Because sustainable improvement is not a tool problem. It's a leadership process.
Learn more about The Wheel of Sustainability →
How Organizations Use Adam’s Expertise
Organizations engage Adam Lawrence when they need more than recommendations.
They need measurable results.
Over the past 30 years, Adam has helped manufacturers improve safety, productivity, reliability, quality, lead time, changeover performance, and operational capacity through Kaizen facilitation, leadership development, and sustainable improvement systems.
His experience spans consumer products, food and beverage, building products, power, distribution, government, and industrial manufacturing environments throughout North America and around the world.
Whether the goal is solving a critical business problem, developing internal facilitators, strengthening leadership, or creating sustainable improvement systems, Adam helps organizations turn opportunity into lasting results.
Ready To Create Results That Last?
Whether you're looking to solve critical business problems, develop internal capability, strengthen leadership, or accelerate transformation, let's start a conversation.