Lean Jax

🟢 Seeking a proven enterprise-wide strategy that will provide your organization with the ability to achieve its’ goals and accelerate growth?

🟢 Interested in establishing a learning culture that will take employee engagement to new heights and consistently delight your customers?

🟢 Looking for an opportunity to connect with Lean organizations and practitioners from across the First Coast and beyond?

If you Answered “Yes” to these questions, than Lean Jax is the place for you!

🟢 At Lean Jax, we believe excellence isn’t a destination; it’s a daily discipline fueled by continuous learning. It demands the curiosity to question, the courage to act, and the relentless drive to improve for the benefit of our customers, organizations, and communities.

🟢 Since 2003, our dynamic, member-driven nonprofit has united and connected organizations and individuals throughout Jacksonville and Northeast Florida, all driven by a shared passion for Lean thinking and practice.

🟢 Lean is not just a set of tools or theoretical concepts; it’s a powerful, actionable strategy for unleashing operational excellence—applicable to every organization, in every sector, at every stage. It shapes how we confront challenges, make informed decisions, and lead with intention.

🟢 Lean Jax provides Lean transformation support through strategy development and execution, foundational learning-by-doing training workshops, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, immersive site visits, hands-on project support, Lean certification training, and tailored guidance. This integrated approach empowers organizations to collaborate, ignite sustainable change, and achieve tremendous results.

🟢 If you’re ready to pursue excellence with passion and purpose, let’s get to work!

🟢 Together, we can transform long-standing frustrations into unstoppable momentum, drive impactful progress, and empower one another to thrive, fueling economic growth throughout the First Coast and beyond!

Lean Jax Helps its’ Member Organizations Achieve Impactful Results!

✅ A medical device manufacturer saved an average of $10 million per year for the first five (5) years of its’ Lean transformation journey with extensive support from Lean Jax.

✅ Through a Lean Jax facilitated rapid improvement event, a medical identification card producer (and 7-year member of Lean Jax) transitioned from batch production to continuous flow, increasing production and profits by 10X ( 900% improvement) by the end of the first month.

✅ Through a series of rapid improvement events, an independent laboratory reduce the lead time of a critical value stream by 57% and improve efficiency by 65% within the first three (3) months.

✅ Slashed product/service lead times from 6-months to 2-weeks (92%), 6-months to 3-weeks (88%), 5-months to 10 days (93%), 109 to 10 days (91%), 99 to 10 days (90%) and 23-days to 2-hours (99%) in various business sectors.

✅ Through a series of rapid improvement events, a law enforcement agency’s clerical department eliminated the time and cost of reproducing 3.15 million unnecessary copies of daily reports and presentations each year.

✅ By leveraging A3 problem solving and facilitation support from Lean Jax, a medical device company secured $700,000 in funding for a critical information technology application.

✅ A design-build construction firm implemented standardized work for meeting facilitation, reducing the time top management spends in meetings by 50%, freeing up over 10 hours of each leader’s time each week to spend on value-added work.