DOUG LACHANCE
LEAN MASTER, LSSBB
Doug Lachance is the Founder & President of Design 4 Lean Solutions Inc. With over 20 years of international experience, Doug and his global team of experts offer consultancy, corporate training and education, specializing in Continuous Improvement and Lean Six Sigma Training and Events across a broad range of sectors.
As a Senior Lean Management Consultant, Master and Trainer, Doug has been an agent of change helping clients transform their organizations into effective lean enterprises.
Doug studied lean principles extensively with Isuzu in Japan and was pivotal in developing McCain Food’s popular 6S for Success (5S + 1Safety) Visual Factory program, a global initiative to implement the same look and feel at all 52 manufacturing sites worldwide.
Doug has a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB) Certification in Lean and Six Sigma from Strategy Breakthrough Transformation Innovation (SBTI) in Milwaukee. He has a Lean Master Certificate with emphasis in Leadership and Managing Organizational Change from Isuzu and ITO University.
Doug is an accomplished facilitator, trainer and presenter. He has trained over 10,000 people, mentored 500+ people and has helped complete 500+ projects with results that range between $50,000 and $112 million dollars in savings. His facilitation expertise runs the gamut, from facilitating leadership retreats with top executives, to facilitating Process Walks, Kaizen Events and project team meetings.
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What is Lean?
Lean is a management practice that focuses on reducing costs associated with non value adding activities. Examples of this are unnecessary waste, inefficiency, and lack of safety and quality. Lean supports the concept of continuous improvement, a systematic approach that encourages shared responsibility and leadership which aims to achieve incremental changes for long term results.
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“Design 4 Lean is an excellent company with wealth of knowledge and experience in the space of Lean Manufacturing. It was an absolute pleasure working and learning with them during our time at Rockwell Automation.”
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