For Manufacturing Leaders
Solve Your Toughest Manufacturing Problems in One Week or Less
Whether you’re battling downtime, safety issues, quality problems, long changeovers, or missed production targets, we help your team identify the root cause, implement solutions fast, and sustain the results long after the project ends.
Critical Business Problems We Solve
95% reduction in confined-space safety risk.
Oklahoma paper mill
Equipment jams reduced by 90%.
Mississippi building products plant
Your Team is Working Hard. The Problems Keep Coming Back.
Presenting at the 2023 Global Lean Summit
Equipment failures.
Recurring safety concerns.
Scrap eating into margins.
Long changeovers.
Missed production goals.
Improvement initiatives that start strong and slowly fade away.
You know there is more performance hidden inside your operation. The challenge is figuring out where to focus first and how to make improvements stick.
That’s where we help.
From 16 Years to 3 Days
“We had a problem that we have been trying to solve for 16 years and now we did it in 3 days. I cannot wait to see the process we developed in action. Thanks Adam!”
-Barbara Hall, Technology Director, United Way of Lancaster County
OEE improved from 52% to 75%.
North Carolina vinyl siding plant
Scrap reduced by 50%.
Florida composite decking plant
Bottle changeovers reduced from 7 hours to 2 hours.
Indiana whisky distiller
Procure-to-pay lead time reduced by 65%.
Pennsylvania steel fabricator
Results that Reach the Bottom Line
“The plant has stepped to another level of financial performance”
-Kevin Brumbaugh, Plant Manager, Armstrong Flooring
How We Deliver Results
Known as the Kaizen Ninja, Adam works directly with leaders and teams to implement improvements and create sustainable results.
Breakthrough Assessment
Uncover your highest-value improvement opportunities during a one-day site visit.
Identify the barriers limiting performance and determine where Kaizen can deliver the fastest and most sustainable results.
Build Internal Improvement Capability
For organizations that want employees capable of leading successful improvement events without outside consultants.
Develop facilitation skills, prioritization methods, and sustainability systems that create lasting results.
We use focused Kaizen events to solve critical business problems quickly and sustainably.
Kaizen literally means “change for the good” or “continuous improvement.
A Kaizen event brings together the people closest to the work to analyze problems, implement improvements, and achieve measurable results in one focused week or less.
Unlike traditional consulting projects that generate recommendations, Kaizen events create real change before the team leaves the room.
To ensure improvements deliver lasting value, we focus on three critical elements:
Identify the Right Opportunity
Through assessments, diagnostics, and leadership alignment, we focus on the issues with the greatest potential business impact.
Implement Meaningful Change
Through Kaizen facilitation, coaching, and workforce engagement, we rapidly turn ideas into measurable improvements.
Sustain the Results
Through leadership development, internal capability building, and proven sustainability systems, we ensure improvements become part of the way your organization operates.
Choose your Best Path Forward
Solve a Critical Manufacturing Problem
For manufacturers that need measurable operational improvements fast
We’ll help your team solve problems in safety, productivity, quality, downtime, changeovers, and reliability in one week or less.
Kaizen Ninja Institute
Lead high-impact events. Drive lasting change.
This immersive, hands-on training is designed to transform you into a world-class Kaizen facilitator. In this 3-1/2 day program, you’ll learn proven facilitation and engagement techniques, prioritization strategies, and sustainability methods that deliver real, measurable results.
Sustainable Leadership Transformation
A transformational leadership and operational excellence experience.
This practical, story-driven experience is designed to challenge conventional thinking, engage teams, and create momentum for meaningful, sustainable improvement.
Kaizen Ninja Mentor Program
Get expert guidance and real-time feedback to facilitate high-impact events.
Gain hands-on experience and expert mentorship from the original Kaizen Ninjas. This immersive, ongoing program puts you at the heart of world-class Kaizen facilitation, guiding you through every step with real-time feedback and support.
Transform Leadership Performance
Create leaders who drive accountability, engagement, and sustainable results.
For leaders committed to building a culture of sustainable improvement.
Kaizen Ninja Facilitation
Solve your most critical business challenges in one week or less.
Get high-impact event design, preparation, and implementation - based on your feedback and objectives. Custom-built to solve your most pressing challenges. In one week or less, we’ll help your team drive sustainable real-time improvements with hands-on assistance and lasting results.
Results that Last
“From coaching leadership to engaging our Kaizen teams, Process Improvement Partners gives their all to ensure we have a winning experience and that our fantastic results live on and are sustained.”
-Andrew Koenig, CEO of CITY Furniture
Results Accelerator
Scale sustainable improvement across teams, functions, and sites.
Within 90-180 days, you’ll build a leadership system that consistently delivers and sustains high-impact results across teams and sites, without dependency on outside support.
About Adam Lawrence
400+ Global Kaizen Events Facilitated
$500M+ Business Impact Delivered
Creator of The Wheel of Sustainability
Author • Speaker • Facilitator
Global Manufacturing Experience
Featured in
Industry Week
Aerospace America
Artisan Spirit
Gemba Academy podcasts
Lean Solutions podcasts
For decades, Adam has partnered with manufacturing leaders around the world to solve critical business problems in safety, productivity, quality, reliability, changeover reduction, and lead time. His unique approach aligns leadership, engages teams, and ensures improvements become part of the way the organization operates.
If you're looking for an experienced partner who literally wrote the book on sustainability, you found the right guide.
Want to learn more about sustaining your improvements? Read my book.
We solve problems every day.
We want our solutions to stick, so the problems don’t come back. Sometimes, even with the best efforts and intentions, the same problems resurface. There must be a better way to sustain the results you work so hard to achieve.
The Wheel of Sustainability is the better way.
This book will help you strengthen your leadership commitment to engage and empower your teams with the Wheel and sustain their solutions. With case studies and step by step explanations, you will have the tools to help your organization win.
What it’s Like to Work with Adam
Every engagement is customized to your organization's goals, challenges, and opportunities. There is no cookie-cutter playbook.
You can expect direct involvement from Adam throughout the process, from identifying the right opportunity to implementing improvements and sustaining results.
Most importantly, you can expect more than recommendations. You'll gain measurable business results, highly engaged team members, stronger leadership alignment, and practical systems that help improvements stick long after the event is complete.
