Certificates in Lean for the Public Sector

The Certificate and Advanced Certificates in Lean for the Public Sector are for everyone. Take control and improve your own work. Earn a Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector with four 1-day Lean workshops. With six 1-day Lean workshops, earn an Advanced Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector. Download the flyer. We developed and have been teaching the Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector since 2015.

Combine 1-day Lean Workshops, earn Certificates

Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector: Four 1-day Lean courses.
Advanced Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector: Six 1-day Lean courses.

Download the flyer (in PDF format).

Condensed Certificate in Lean (4 consecutive days)

Want to obtain a Certificate in consecutive days? Do you come from a region outside of the National Capital Region (Ottawa, Gatineau) and want to make the most of your trip to Ottawa? A Condensed Certificate is for you:

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February 11-14, 2020 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm each day – Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector. February cohort.

ONE-BUTTON REGISTRATION to all four courses at once for February 11-14, 2020 [Register to February Certificate], includes a 25% rebate, only $1,185+HST.
The February Certificate has the following 4 courses: Introduction to Lean for Government (prerequisite), Lean is Science, Micro-Experiments: Foundations for Kaizen (be agile) and iLean: Make Work Visible to Focus and Finish (kanban).

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August 11-14, 2020 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm each day – Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector. August cohort.

ONE-BUTTON REGISTRATION to all four courses at once for August 11-14, 2020 [Register to August Certificate], includes a 25% rebate, only $1,185+HST.
The August Certificate has the following 4 courses: Introduction to Lean for Government (prerequisite), Lean Thinker’s Toolkit, Lean: Optimizing flow to deliver value and iLean: Make Work Visible to Focus and Finish (kanban).

Workshop Costs and Locations

Individual Registration

Cost for individual registration to each 1-day in-class workshop is $395.00 +HST per person, payable at registration by credit card (or Departmental Acquisition Card). All 1-day in-class workshops are offered at the Alpen Path Solutions Training Centre & Micro Lab, 340 Albert Street, Suite 1720 (17th Floor, Constitution Square Tower III), Ottawa ON K1R 7Y6. Workshops are from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Get 25% off when using the one-button registration online for 4 workshops in a row, a cohort. Includes all workshop learning materials, coffee, tea and snacks.

Your Team at the Alpen Path Solutions Training Centre & Micro Lab

Team option cost, up to 14 people at the Alpen Path Solutions Training Centre & Micro Lab, for a 1-day in-class workshop is $2,750.00 (+HST) for up to 14 participants (below $5,000 and can be paid by credit card). The Lean Training Centre & Micro Lab is at 340 Albert Street, Suite 1720 (17th Floor, Constitution Square Tower III), Ottawa ON K1R 7Y6. Workshops are from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Includes all workshop learning materials, coffee and tea. Contact us to book your staff or management training day.

Your Team In-Your-Workplace

In-Your-Workplace group workshop for up to 14 participants. Cost for each 1-day in-your-workplace Lean workshop, $2,750.00 (+HST) for up to 14 participants in your workplace (below $5,000 and can be paid by credit card). Contact us to book. Cost includes all learning materials.

In-Your-Workplace group workshop costs are for the National Capital Region and we also offer all our courses in the regions. Contact us to get a quote that meets your needs.

Combine courses to earn a Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector or an Advanced Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector.

Optional Lean for Management Workshop

To deepen your understanding of Lean, add the optional Lean for management workshop Lean for Executives. Lean leaders (+ upcoming Lean leaders such as yourselves) learn about Lean leadership and about new practices such as Leaders Standard Work and Gemba walks. To create a culture of continuous improvement, management must own a Lean transformation and be involved because improvement cannot be delegated. Contact us to book your workshop.

Lean Coach Training Program
A Lean coach guides teams in defining problems and finding countermeasures to be implemented with Lean as collaborative science. Our training provides a solid Lean foundation on which you can build. Contact us to find out more about Lean Coach training**. An ideal training for management to ensure that improvement and work are not separated.

Download the the overview of our Lean Coach Training Program, in PDF .

Finding the Lean way together!

Join the some 3,000+ public servants across Canada who have attended Lean workshops offered by Alpen Path Solutions since March 2015. Alpen Path Solutions created the Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector in late summer 2015 with 4 of the Lean courses above, taught since March 2015.

France Bergeron (BTh, MSc), Lean coach at Alpen Path Solutions Inc., brings 21 years of public sector experience and years of Lean leadership within a line department to help you live Lean in your government organisation. Joanne Gaudet (BSc, BA, MA), Lean coach at Alpen Path Solutions Inc., brings her expertise in science studies to the successful deployment of Lean as an applied collaborative science. Enlist empirical science in your work every day.

Lean is the science of work: see work (by using visual tools/management to see flow and what disrupts flow of value to clients such as maps or ‘kanban’, because in science you can’t measure what you can’t see), measure work (the simplest and most widely used measures are time and quality) and improve work every day (by collaboratively optimizing the flow of value to clients to make flow faster, easier and cheaper).

*Please note that non-attendance for training workshops managed by Alpen Path Solutions Inc. does not entitle the participant to a refund or the possibility of transferring to a later workshop date. Cancellation for workshops offered in Ottawa with less than 13 days advance notice forfeits a refund or transfer; however, an alternate participant may attend instead, please advise us as soon as possible (Introduction to Lean for Government is a prerequisite). Refunds, minus a 15% service charge, are provided upon written notification of cancellation received at least 13 days prior to a training workshop date. No refunds are issued following this date. Schedule, workshop offering and location are subject to change without notice. Workshops/Courses can be cancelled without advance notice by Alpen Path Solutions Inc. and in which case participants receive a 100% refund for registration fees. Courses followed at the CCE that were facilitated by Alpen Path Solutions Inc. will be recognized towards the Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector and the Advanced Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector.

**One-button registration rebate for a full Certificate is not retroactive and cannot be applied to registrations completed before the introduction of the one-button registration. One-button registration rebate only applies to the use of the one-button registration and will not apply if someone registers to four courses individually.

***Workshops outside of Ottawa: Please note that non-attendance for training workshops managed by Alpen Path Solutions Inc. does not entitle the participant to a refund. For workshops offered outside of Ottawa, cancellation with less than 45 days advance notice forfeits a refund. However, an alternate participant may attend instead, please advise us as soon as possible (Introduction to Lean for Government is a prerequisite). Refunds, minus a 15% service charge, are provided upon written notification of cancellation received at least 45 days prior to a training workshop date outside of Ottawa. No refunds are issued following this date. Schedule, workshop offering and location are subject to change without notice. Workshops/Courses can be cancelled without advance notice by Alpen Path Solutions Inc. and in which case participants receive a 100% refund for registration fees. Courses followed at the CCE that were facilitated by Alpen Path Solutions Inc. will be recognized towards the Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector and the Advanced Certificate in Lean for the Public Sector.