AI-Native Lean Six Sigma Certification · Yellow Belt
Yellow Belt: fix a real process in 2 to 4 weeks
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification for team leads, coordinators and individual contributors. One-on-one coaching, a scoped improvement project in your own organization, and the skills to keep finding and fixing problems after it’s done.
Who it’s for
For the people closest to the work
Yellow Belt is built for team leads, coordinators and individual contributors. These are the people who see every delay, workaround and repeated error firsthand, and who are often best placed to fix them.
No prior training is needed. If you can describe a process that frustrates you, you’re ready.
The skills
Process improvement basics, with AI as an analytical partner
See the process
Map how work actually flows and mark where it stalls.
Measure it
Pick a few simple measures and set a baseline.
Find the cause
Use basic root cause tools to get past symptoms.
Fix and hold it
Try a change, check that it worked and write it down so it sticks.
Work with AI
Use AI to produce the charts, maps and summaries, and spend your own time on the thinking and the decisions.
The project
A scoped project you choose
You’ll pick one contained problem in your own work, something you can improve within a few weeks. Examples include a form that keeps coming back incomplete, a handoff that loses track of requests or a report that takes too long to build.
Your coach helps you size it so it’s finishable. You’ll finish with a working improvement and the evidence to show it.
The details
How the Yellow Belt runs
Format
1:1 coaching
Length
2 to 4 weeks
Project
A scoped improvement project inside your organization
Outcome
Yellow Belt certification and a completed improvement
In practice
Fifteen Yellow Belts on one district’s HR council
Through this training, fifteen members of a large metro Atlanta school district’s HR council earned their Yellow Belts. The program is led by Edwine Michel, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
Common questions
Questions about Yellow Belt certification
Do I need any background in statistics?
No. Yellow Belt uses simple measures and plain charts. AI handles the formatting so you can focus on what the numbers mean.
How much time does it take each week?
It depends on your project, and your coach will plan around your workload. Because the project is your real work, much of the time goes into improving something you’d be dealing with anyway.
Can a group from our organization go through together?
Yes. Organizations often enroll a cohort. Each person still gets one-on-one coaching and works on a project of their own.
What comes after Yellow Belt?
Leaders who want to run larger, cross-functional projects can move on to Green Belt.
Know the process you’d fix first?
Tell us about your team and we’ll help you plan a Yellow Belt cohort.
