Green Belt Certification
Competence that stays to help every day
A six-month program where your team learns the DMAIC method by doing — from your own process, with your own data, with real results.
Program structure
The suggested core rhythm is four 2-day learning blocks, with project work and sponsor collaboration continuing between them.
Gate 2 is the Analyze → Improve decision point. Suggested rhythm: 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 training days, then a ½-day presentation and certification session after project completion.
Program structure
Four 2-day learning blocks, with project work and sponsor collaboration in between
More than training
Your organization's own program builds competence that lasts — not just certificates.
Shared language
The team learns the same framework in the same context. During training days, participants discuss their own challenges and learn from each other's perspectives.
Coaching between sessions
Participants are not left alone with their projects. Personal coaching ensures projects progress and competence deepens.
Visibility for the organization
After each training day, I update your contact person: how projects are progressing, what I plan next, whether support or separate discussions with the sponsor are needed.
Development network and continuity
A team trained together forms an internal development network. The partnership continues — next group, next level, next challenge.
Your training program
Training is built around your organization — not from a textbook, but from your way of operating.
- ◇ Management system
- ◇ Processes and process data
- ◇ Project management practice
- ◇ Terminology and internal language
- ◇ Organizational culture
- ◇ Examples from your context
- ◇ Exercises with your data
- ◇ Projects from real challenges
- ◇ Material evolves with the partnership
- ◇ Tools that you already use
What's included
- 8 training days — four 2-day learning blocks: Define, Measure, Analyze, and Improve + Control
- Personal project coaching between sessions
- ½-day project presentations and certification after project completion
- Adapted to your management system, processes, and data
What you'll learn
Recognize — Identifying improvement targets
Don't know where to start? We identify your organization's improvement targets: what data is available, where is the greatest potential, which projects to launch.
Define — Scoping and understanding
Lean Six Sigma fundamentals in practice. Process simulation. Exploratory data analysis and project topic selection from your own environment.
Measure — Measurement and current state
Deeper understanding, mapping, and measurement of the process. Working in collaboration with the sponsor.
Analyze — Causes and evidence
Risk and root-cause analysis. Additional data collection if needed. Statistical and visual analysis.
Improve — Solutions
Finding, defining, and testing improvement alternatives. Piloting in practice. Improve and Control are taught as one connected two-day block so solution design flows directly into implementation and sustainment.
Control — Standardization
Monitoring, implementation, and process standardization. The second part of the connected Improve + Control block turns the selected solution into a controlled new way of working.
Your instructor
Jukka-Matti Turtiainen
- ✓ Co-creator of the ESTIEM Lean Six Sigma Green Belt program
- ✓ 25+ Lean Six Sigma courses delivered · 150+ improvement projects coached
- ✓ Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, certified by Gregory H. Watson
- ✓ Trained Quality Champions and coached their projects through the UN International Trade Centre in 8 countries
Frequently asked questions
How long is the Green Belt program?
The suggested core program runs for about six months. It includes 8 training days in four 2-day learning blocks — Define, Measure, Analyze, and Improve + Control — plus project coaching between sessions and a separate half-day presentation and certification session after project completion.
Do participants work on a real project?
Yes. Each participant or project team applies the method to a real improvement challenge from their own environment and uses real process data where available. Project completion is part of the certification logic.
Is Recognize part of the 8-day core program?
No. Recognize is an optional add-on for organizations that want help identifying and prioritizing suitable improvement projects before the Green Belt core program starts.