The Lean Smarts Academy
Lean culture isn’t just something you admire. It’s something you build.
Lean Smarts helps small and mid-sized organizations do exactly that—with a structured system for implementation, a complete training library for your team, and hands-on consulting when you need a guide in the room.
How We Can Help
The work looks different depending on where you are.
Here’s what Lean Smarts offers—and who each one is built for.
The Culture Conduit
You’ve seen Lean culture. Now build it.
For owners & senior leaders
You’ve seen what lean culture looks like—a tour, a book, a conversation that wouldn’t leave you alone. The Culture Conduit is the navigation system that takes your leadership team from inspired to twelve months of real implementation.
The Lean Smarts Academy
Training your team won’t tune out.
For teams & training managers
Stop building lean training from scratch. The Academy gives you 180+ videos, facilitator guides, and a complete curriculum—built to engage a team of twelve or an enterprise of thousands.
Consulting & Coaching
A guide on the floor.
For hands-on, custom support
Kaizen events, gemba walks, SMED, value stream mapping, custom training—sometimes you need someone who can walk your floor and help you solve exactly what’s in front of you. That’s what this is.
From the Founder
I’ve stood where you’re standing.
Someone once handed me an impossible assignment: figure out what lean actually is, then train an entire company in it—with no roadmap, no budget for outside help, and no idea where to start. So I did what you’d probably do. I read everything I could find, tried things that didn’t work, and slowly built something that did.
Since then I’ve sat in nearly every seat—the engineer trying to make sense of a new system, the manager caught between leadership’s expectations and the floor’s reality, the trainer watching a room go quiet, the owner deciding what’s worth investing in. I’ve seen highly disciplined lean systems running at scale, and I’ve seen well-intentioned efforts quietly stall out. Both taught me something the other couldn’t.
That’s the perspective behind everything at Lean Smarts. Not theory borrowed from a book, but the same problems you’re facing, worked through from the inside.
— Daniel Crawford, Founder, Lean Smarts
Trusted by Real Teams
Organizations building lean culture with Lean Smarts.
Empire CAT • Nike • TrippNT • Spire Energy • Utemaster • Letterstream • Amrod • Blueprint Homes • Basic Trailers
“I don’t have to worry about our training. There is enough material for various levels of training, and all we have to do is point people to our LMS and say take the training. Its now the easiest part of executing our Lean Program.”
Continuous Improvement Manager •
Empire CAT
4,500
employees trained through
a single LMS integration
Not Sure Where to Start?
Start here — free.
Try the Lean Smarts Academy free for 30 days. Four weeks of 5S training, real facilitator guides, and a format you can run in your next team meeting.
No credit card required
