Why is there such a strong element of change leadership in your MBB program?

Today, a master black belt cannot just be a better black belt or a statistician. Training and support software has advanced so much today that advanced statistical techniques should be learnt by black belts.

A black belt has the resources available today, which I might add were not so readily available as recent as ten years ago, to use and apply statistical methods normally reserved for master black belts.

With software packages such as SigmaXL and Minitab® continually simplifying the application of advanced statistical methods, nobody in the Lean Six Sigma world really needs to remember any equations. They need to understand the principles and assumptions that apply, but not the maths.

A modern day, 21st Century master black belt is required to be a change agent, a leader, a trainer, a coach, a mentor; someone who can lead and create a transformation in business through maximising the potential of the internal collaboration of people and processes.

Their principle role today is to create permanent change people’s behaviour for the purpose of maximum business performance.

And this change agent role is not limited to just employees for the true master black belt can create positive change all the way to the top of their organisation.

The modern day master black belt must be a practitioner of influence.