🏢 About Us

Built on 25 Years of
Real-World Results

Lean Business Transformation LLC is not a training company. We are an operational transformation firm that stays until the numbers change — and the culture sustains itself.

Herb Thompson
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt · Founder

45K+

Companies Served

25+

Years Experience

100+

Projects Completed

Facilities Transformed

👤 Meet the Founder

This Isn't Theory —
It's 25 Years of Doing.

Herb Thompson founded Lean Business Transformation LLC with one conviction: real results require real presence. Not a workshop. Not a binder left behind. A consultant who stays, adapts, and doesn't leave until the numbers prove the work is done.

With 25+ years applying Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, and the Toyota Production System across manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics — Herb has seen every version of operational dysfunction and knows exactly how to fix it.

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Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

The highest certification in process excellence — fewer than 1% of practitioners reach this level. Herb applies it across every engagement, not just in training rooms.

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Former Agilent Technologies

Senior-level Lean consulting at a Fortune 500 technology company — enterprise-scale transformation experience brought to clients of every size.

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Guest Speaker & Industry Expert

Recognized voice in Lean and Process Excellence across multiple industries, conferences, and professional forums nationwide.

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7 Facilities Transformed Nationwide

Not a classroom trainer — a hands-on operator. Herb has delivered an average 40% waste reduction within 90 days across every engagement he's led.

“What makes Herb different is not the certifications — it's that he stays until the results show up. Most consultants leave when the training ends. Herb leaves when the culture runs itself.” — Client, National Manufacturing Facility

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⚙️ Our Approach

How We Work

Every engagement follows the same proven framework — assess, redesign, install, and sustain. No shortcuts. No generic playbooks.

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1. Deep Assessment

We start by seeing what your team can no longer see — waste, bottlenecks, and misalignment normalized over years. No assumptions, no templates.

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2. Custom Redesign

Using Value Stream Mapping, DMAIC, and TPS principles, we redesign your workflows from the ground up — built for your operation, not a textbook example.

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3. Hands-On Implementation

We don't hand over a deck and leave. We implement alongside your team, train your leaders, and standardize every process until it runs without us.

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4. Measure Everything

Lead times, defect rates, Lean scores, cost savings — every metric is tracked and reported so you see ROI in real numbers, not feel-good stories.

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5. Leadership Alignment

We align your leadership team around shared KPIs and install the systems to keep them accountable — because improvement that starts at the top is the only kind that lasts.

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6. Culture That Sustains

The final deliverable isn't a report — it's a self-sustaining Lean culture that keeps improving after we leave, without needing us to restart it.

🏢 The Company

Lean Business Transformation LLC

Founded in 2018. Built on 25 years of operational experience before that. We exist to make Lean results permanent — not just possible.

★★★★★ 5-Star Rated Consulting · Est. 2018

Lean Business Transformation LLC

Founded by Herb Thompson · Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

LLC · Established 2018

45K+

Companies Served

25+

Years Active

100+

Projects Done

Lean Business Transformation LLC was built on a simple belief: that operational excellence is not a program you roll out — it's a culture you build. And culture requires presence, patience, and people who know what “done” actually looks like.

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Results Over Reports

We measure success in lead times cut, defects eliminated, and dollars saved — not slide decks delivered.

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Stay Until It's Done

We don't exit at the end of a workshop. We stay until the systems are running and the culture is self-sustaining.

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No Generic Playbooks

Every client gets a solution built for their operation — not a copy of what worked for someone else's industry.

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Measurable ROI Always

Every engagement is tied to specific, trackable numbers. If we can't measure it, we don't count it as a win.

Built on 25 Years ofReal-World Results

This Isn't Theory —It's 25 Years of Doing.

How We Work

Lean Business Transformation LLC

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Built on 25 Years of
Real-World Results

This Isn't Theory —
It's 25 Years of Doing.