Continuous improvement & Lean Consulting

Kaizen Institute
United States

Where improvement becomes habit, and habit becomes culture

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Optimizing operations, achieving sustainable change, and driving continuous improvement

We help US organizations build the habits, structures, and behaviors that turn improvement into a daily practice, not a one-time initiative.
 
Through hands-on consulting, we combine lean methodology, agile principles, and digital tools to build a culture of continuous improvement, working directly on the shop floor to build capability your teams can sustain on their own.

challenges that limit growth

Most organizations learn to live with fixable gaps

The resources already exist, but their output is stuck inside processes that manage problems instead of solving them. The gap is operational, and so is the fix.

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New capacity has been built. Now it has to run at rate.

A wave of new semiconductor, EV, and industrial plants is shifting from construction to production. Ramping to target yield with an unseasoned workforce is a challenge that capital alone cannot solve.

Order books are full. The workforce to fill them is not available.

Projections point to millions of unfilled manufacturing roles over the coming decade. Since automation and hiring cannot close the gap, output has to come from higher productivity per worker.

Input cost increases have become a margin problem that pricing cannot fix.

With input costs rising across import-dependent manufacturing and distribution, firms that cannot reprice freely must find the margin elsewhere. Cost reduction and leaner sourcing are the only levers.

News, insights & trends

The US Market shifts.
We track it.

Trends

Is your factory ready for agentic AI?

65% of U.S. manufacturers lack the data AI needs to work at scale, and the constraint isn’t the technology, it’s the process. Discover why lean process maturity, not algorithms, is the real prerequisite for agentic AI success in manufacturing, and what operations leaders should prioritize before deploying any agent on the shop floor.
Find out what AI agents actually need
Trends

Why US manufacturers are losing the reshoring race

Investment is surging, but factory headcount is shrinking. 92% of US manufacturers call automation essential, yet only 37% have significant automation in place. The constraint isn’t robots or budgets: it’s process discipline. Discover why standardizing work before automating it is the only sequence that actually compounds returns.
Find out why automation stalls

EVENTS & INITIATIVES

What we’ve been up to in the United States

Recording
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KAIZEN™ Awards North America 2026

Discover what stands behind the KAIZEN™ Award and explore the winners from the latest editions.
30th Nov 26 11am EDT
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The Culture of Impact​ Series Across Industries

Join global retail leaders as they share insights, strategies, and real-world examples of how the industry’s top performers are building a culture of impact, from the shop floor to the boardroom.

Real projects and everyday practice

Insights from the field

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KAIZEN™ Awards North America 2026
Video

How Mallard Creek Polymers’ Exceeded Its Productivity Target by 16%
Video

Lean Journeys: Global Stories 3rd Edition
Article

The $14.2 million question: Why America’s AI data centers keep missing their opening dates
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KAIZEN™ in numbers

Measurable impact built on practice

  • 50+

    Consultants in the US

  • 100+

    Transformations delivered to American companies

  • 10+

    Yeas of experience in the US Market

OUR EXPERTS in the us

The team behind every transformation

Dan Chartier Managing Director & Partner | Kaizen Institute North America
Dan Chartier Managing Director & Partner | Kaizen Institute North America
José Pires Senior Partner | Kaizen Institute North America
José Pires Senior Partner | Kaizen Institute North America
Victor Rodriguez Director of Operations | Kaizen Institute North America
Victor Rodriguez Director of Operations | Kaizen Institute North America
Wilson Tran Senior Project Leader | Kaizen Institute North America
Wilson Tran Senior Project Leader | Kaizen Institute North America
Bekah Anderson Senior Consultant | Kaizen Institute North America
Bekah Anderson Senior Consultant | Kaizen Institute North America
Tiago Costa Dias Partner | Kaizen Institute North America
Tiago Costa Dias Partner | Kaizen Institute North America
Jean-Baptiste Daniel Manager | Kaizen Institute North America
Jean-Baptiste Daniel Manager | Kaizen Institute North America

GLOBAL PRESENCE

Where excellence takes root

Kaizen Institute USA – Arizona

Office

200 W Monroe Street, 2nd Floor, Office 224, Phoenix AZ 85003

Phone

(+1) 888 464 3622

Kaizen Institute USA – New York

Office

136 Madison Avenue 5th & 6th Floors, NY 10016 New York, nited States

Phone

(+1) 888 464 3622

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