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About Gemba

Gemba has been a firm focused on delivering knowledge and results through kaizen since 1998. We do through public workshops, benchmarking trips to Japan, developing and selling educational materials, and on-site training and consulting.

Where Do We Work?

We travel throughout the United States, and we have conducted training and consulting projects in various countries around the world. We are able to support projects in English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese.

Who are Our Clients?

We have provided training and consulting to over 100 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies as well as small private firms. We have trained thousands of professionals, managers, and workers. Over 450 organizations use our training materials and educational products. Nearly 200 executives, managers, and Lean leaders have joined us on study missions to Japan.

How do We Work?

We guarantee the work we do. We deliver the business results and Lean learning solutions for your competence development needs. Understanding and satisfying customers with minimum time and effort is how we practice what we preach (Kaizen). We do this through a combination of assessment, training, project planning and rapid implementation.

We provide kaizen consulting and Lean training support until the deliverables we have signed up for have been met and sustained.

What is Our Consulting Approach?

We teach people how to think Lean and work as teams to improve processes rapidly (kaizen). We treat everyone with respect. We value your time. Our goal is to transfer our knowledge to our clients and to continually challenge you to reach a higher level. We deliver a balance of business results and education to guarantee that your Lean Enterprise Transformation will be successful.

Our aim is to partner with firms who are committed to long-term continuous improvement through knowledge development, investment in people, and management by fact.

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