Lean Essentials Is Designed For…
For Any Role or Level
Store staff to senior management — no prerequisites required.
New to Lean Thinking
Building confidence and fundamentals before leading a full project.
Exploring Process Improvement
You want to understand the 10 Lean wastes and how to spot them in your work.
Improving Standard Work
You see an opportunity to make a process in your area safer, simpler, or more effective.
Building Habits & Confidence
You want practical tools you can use immediately, with mentor support.
Considering Lean Practitioner
44% of Essentials participants progressed to the Practitioner programme.
From Simulation to Standard Work —
In 8 Weeks
Each participant completes a real process improvement in their own role — with expert mentoring at every step.
Problem Clarity
Write clear problem statements and document the Voice of the Customer to focus on what matters.
Process Understanding
Map your processes, identify the 10 Lean wastes, and understand TAKT time and bottlenecks.
Practical Improvement
Run a Kaizen event, prioritise ideas with Impact/Ease charts, and implement real changes.
Standard Work
Develop the safest, simplest, most effective way to do a task — and make it stick.
8 Weeks from Simulation to Results
Pre-Course Orientation
15-minute onboarding to ensure each participant is set up for the simulation — tech check, expectations, and context.
Business Simulation
1 full day in-person or 2 half-days online. A hands-on experiential simulation that brings Lean to life.
1:1 Expert Mentoring
5 follow-up mentor sessions. Your assigned mentor helps you apply the tools to a real improvement project in your role.
Final A3 Presentation
A 5-minute presentation of your process improvement to management — recognised with a Yellow Belt certificate.
Practical, Grounded,
and People-First
We believe the best consultants already work in your organisation. Our role is to create environments where every voice is valued — and empower your people to find the solutions.
LeanEssentials was born when a corporate client asked us to design a short, experiential introduction to Lean — moving away from presentations toward our hands-on simulation approach.
Real Results from Real People
Huge learning experience that you can apply to your daily work and projects going forward. Creates a new way of thinking.
I learnt even more than expected. Not only did it help me implement the process improvement project I chose, it also gave me problem-solving tools I will apply to future projects.
This is a great programme that enables you to work on real issues and apply the learnings that allow you to see how it works. I would strongly recommend it for everyone in a business regardless of their role.
I really enjoyed the course. I found the mentor sessions really useful as they challenged me to think about the impact of my project in a totally different but more powerful way.
The 1:1 mentoring allowed me to take a reasonably complex concept and whittle it down to two concise process improvements that should improve business practice.
What You’ll Learn
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Trusted By Organisations Across Ireland & the UK
Ready to Build Lean Thinking
Across Your Team?
Let’s talk about how LeanEssentials can work for your organisation. No commitment needed — just a conversation.
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