Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Black Belt certification for at least 3 years

Qualification as a Master Black Belt is testimony to your mastery in organisational improvement.

It will mark you out from the crowd.

It is an external, independent confirmation and validation of what you have achieved in your career in operational excellence so far.

During the course of the assessment programme, the candidate may be tested on any of the following subject matters:

• Strategic Planning / Hoshin Kanri
• Six Sigma (DMAIC)
• Design for Six Sigma
• Lean (PDCA, Kaizen)
• Theory of constraints
• Problem-solving methods
• Project identification
• Project qualification
• Stakeholder management
• Risk Management
• Change Management
• Measurement System Analysis
• Process Capability
• Multi-Vari Analysis
• Classes of Distributions
• Inferential Statistics
• Understanding Inference
• Sampling Techniques
• Hypothesis Testing
• Risk: Type 1 & Type 2
• Types of Hypothesis Test
• Hypothesis Testing (Non-Normal Data)
• Regression Analysis
• Correlation and Coefficients
• Designed Experiments
• Experiment Design
• Fractional Factorial Designs
• Full Factorial Experiments
• Taguchi Designs,
• Confounding Effects
• Data Collection for SPC
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• CumSum and EWMA Charts
• Control Charts

The Master Black Belt Certification Programme is designed to assess existing Lean Six Sigma Black Belts in their leadership, coaching, communication, knowledge and problem-solving skills.

The programme is designed to test both the interpersonal and technical skills of the candidates that are essential to be a successful Master Black Belt.

To succeed as a Master Black Belt, you need to be competent when wearing many different hats…

• You need to be a problem solver
• You need to be a master of situational leadership
• You need to be confident and convincing across many audiences and circumstances
• You need to be a teacher

Pré- qualification Requirements

• 3 x operational excellence projects in which you have taken a leadership role, documented as A3 reports or similar format
• Reference from a manager or director who worked with you while a Black Belt

A 3-hour proctored online exam with both open-ended and multiple-choice questions on the MBB Body of Knowledge.

MBB Accreditation Board Interview

• Deliver a 15-minute presentation about one of your Black Belt projects to a live panel of peers

International Lean Six Sigma Institute (ILSSI) Master Black Belt Certificate

MBB Application Phase 1:
Once we are sure that you are the right fit for this program, your 3 project documents will be reviewed by our panel of Master Black Belts and we will schedule you to take the Master Black Belt exam.

MBB Application Phase 2:
Having successfully passed Stage 1, we invite you to attend a certification board of ILSSI Master Black Belts. You will also be required to make a presentation to the board about a project or a topic related to Lean Six Sigma.
Once our certification board is sufficiently confident that you meet the standards required of a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt you will be awarded your ILSSI Master Black Belt certification.