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Join the thou­sands of orga­ni­za­tions using Gem­ba Acad­e­my’s trans­for­ma­tive train­ing to guide their improve­ments, empow­er their asso­ciates, and deliv­er greater val­ue to their customers.

How can Gem­ba Acad­e­my help you?

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1500+ Video library of Lean & Six Sig­ma knowledge

24/7 Any­where, any­time. Acces­si­ble to your team, on your schedule

3000+ Glob­al + small busi­ness­es partners

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What can Gemba Academy do for you?

We help orga­ni­za­tions just like yours. Small, medi­um, large, and glob­al enter­pris­es alike. Just get­ting start­ed, or high­ly advanced, we have a solu­tion to inspire your busi­ness excel­lence ini­tia­tives and improve your processes.

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Expert Train­ing

On-Demand Cat­a­log

Gem­ba Acad­e­my’s on-demand train­ing videos have train­ers pre­sent­ing infor­ma­tion back to the stu­dent in a con­ver­sa­tion­al man­ner. We are con­tin­u­ous improve­ment prac­ti­tion­ers first, and our train­ing mate­ri­als are based on years of expe­ri­ence and ongo­ing engage­ment with com­pa­nies of all sizes across the globe.

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Get Cer­ti­fied

Lev­el up your skills with a Gem­ba Acad­e­my cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. We have an option avail­able for all skill lev­els, bud­gets, and avail­able time com­mit­ments. If time is a fac­tor, fast-track options are avail­able to get your teams cer­ti­fied in as lit­tle as four months.

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In-Per­son and Vir­tu­al Events

Live Instruc­tor Options

Gem­ba Acad­e­my offers vir­tu­al and in-per­son train­ing in var­i­ous improve­ment top­ics. For the ulti­mate con­ve­nience, we can send an instruc­tor to your site for live work­shops, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion fast-tracks, sim­u­la­tions, and more.

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Real-World Insight

Vir­tu­al tours with real-world application

Keep teams moti­vat­ed with Gem­ba Acad­e­my Live! vir­tu­al tours. Learn first-hand about entire orga­ni­za­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion, tri­al and tribu­la­tions, starts and stops, plus detailed accounts of how Lean has affect­ed com­pa­ny cul­tures on a per­son­al lev­el. Engage your team with actu­al project sce­nar­ios, with inspir­ing expe­ri­ences to grow orga­ni­za­tions and lead to success.

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Gemba Academy works with all industries

We take an indus­try-agnos­tic approach to infor­ma­tion delivery.

Dis­cov­er how we have helped diverse indus­tries achieve their train­ing and improve­ment goals.

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Kata Implementation at Paperworks

Paper­works Indus­tries has suc­cess­ful­ly inte­grat­ed Gem­ba Acad­e­my train­ing via the Learn­ing Sys­tem to imple­ment Toy­ota Kata train­ing. Using our train­ing mate­ri­als, par­tic­i­pants learned to imple­ment sci­en­tif­ic think­ing into their improve­ment ini­tia­tives. They were also able to cer­ti­fy 5 new kata ​“geeks” to keep the momen­tum going through all areas of the company.

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