Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training and certification
A week of Lean and Six Sigma tools, practised on real problems until they click. In Reno and across Nevada, eta consulting is the home of Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training — taught by Rishi Malhotra since 2017, including through the University of Nevada, Reno, with more than 1,000 students certified and pricing kept affordable; Yellow Belt and Black Belt round out the ladder. We also serve California — San Jose has taken many of our classes, and clients include Maxim Integrated — and run on-site Green Belt cohorts for teams anywhere else in the U.S.
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Who it’s for
Supervisors, managers, directors, executives, engineers and analysts who own a process and want to improve it. The class draws from manufacturing, logistics, food and beverage, machine shops and aerospace plants, hospitals and clinics, and public agencies. Most come with a problem in mind and leave with a plan to fix it. We work through every calculation together in class, step by step.
What you’ll learn
- Foundations: Lean and Toyota Production System principles, introduction to Six Sigma, Voice of the Customer, and waste analysis.
- Seeing and scoping the work: project charter, Gemba, A3, SIPOC, and how to run a Lean assessment.
- Flow and pull: one-piece flow, JIT and Kanban, inventory management, standard work, changeover reduction, and Heijunka.
- Stability and measurement: 5S, visual factory, OEE and TPM, Jidoka, KPIs and metrics, and poka-yoke.
- Leading change: problem solving, kaizen, Hoshin, change management, and qualities of a Lean leader.
Format
Five days and 35 hours in the classroom, or on-site at your company, where we tailor it to your industry and your own processes. Hands-on throughout: a kaizen simulation, worked calculations and a charter of your own, reviewed one-on-one with Rishi. eta typically certifies on-site students itself.
Open classes run in Reno; on-site Green Belt comes to your site in California, Nevada, or anywhere in the U.S. Contact us for pricing, dates and locations.
Outcomes
You leave with a Green Belt certificate from eta (or from UNR when the class runs through the University path), a draft charter for a real project, and a first step to take on Monday. In October 2026, every participant named something they would lead next: a kaizen event, a 5S project, a visual factory, a pull system or a Gemba walk. Green Belt is also the prerequisite for our Black Belt.
Certification is issued by eta, or by UNR when the class runs through the University. Employers — and anyone checking LinkedIn — can verify an eta credential at /verify-credential/.
From the October 2026 class
In their words.
“Even if you have been working with lean manufacturing practices your entire career, you will still learn something no matter what, or learn to do something in a better way.”
“Absolutely take it and take good notes. It’s highly valuable.”
“…take the class. Learning and implementing lean culture is absolutely necessary for success.”
“Variance and standard deviation calculations. Rishi broke it down and explained it very well.”
“…it will help them long term in their work and give them knowledge they didn’t know they needed”
“FMEA – Never used it before, but the table made it clear.”
“Definitely to do it, is worth it!”
Ask about the next class
Ready for yourself or your team? Contact eta for pricing, dates and the next open class — or bring Green Belt on-site. More than half our classes run on-site.
Book a call, email rishi@increaseeta.com or call (775) 287-6168.