My mission is “to help organizations and the people who work there, reach their full potential”.

Michael Carson is a consultant focused on a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt and Green Belt certification and curriculum.

Many firms in the United States offer lean Six Sigma Training and business consultancy services in the United States.

When you go through their websites, you will discover that each of them presents themselves at the best service providers.

However, as the old saying goes, not everything that glitter is gold. Therefore, it is good to do some research before choosing the best Lean Six Sigma consultant.

About Me

Michael Carson

Michael, a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, learned continuous improvement, during Florida Power and Light’s quest for the Deming Prize. He led his first team, through the problem solving process and was awarded the FPL’s Presidents Cup in 1989. That same year FPL was the first non Japanese Company to be awarded The Deming Prize for Quality Management. Part of FPL’s Vision was to be recognized as the best managed Electric Company in the US, To our delight, we far exceeded the vision when we were recognized as the best managed company in the US.

Currently FPL is the largest Electric provider in the US.

“It just made sense”, and “the process works” were his mantra, In 1989 he was selected to Join Qualtec Quality Services a FPL Group company specifically built to fulfill FPL’s commitment to teach other Western Companies the same skills and knowledge as well as how to properly change the culture change required to transformed FPL from an average regional Electricity provider to be recognized as “The best managed company in the USA”

During his 40 year career he has assisted 33 companies as well as government agencies to implement the changes required to insure his clients were the best in their industries.

Michael joined MaxPT to pass his learning on to high schoolers, his new mantra is “to create a generation of problem solvers”.

Michael has the entire MaxPT team behind him and the MaxPT materials and courses are available for licensing.

MaxPT stands for Maximum Potential and is the world’s leader in Six Sigma training.

Lean Six Sigma has many interpretations, as a Management System it has stood the test of time, since its first introduction to the Japanese to rebuild their industries after the 2nd World War, it evolved into “The Toyota Way” including “Just in time inventory” and brought back to the US by the “Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers” then westernized to work for FPL, currently it is still recognized as the most effective and efficient management system.

Why Should You Work Directly With Michael Carson?

Lean Six Sigma is a company-wide management system.

When you work with Michael, he will customize an implementation of Lean Six Sigma that will ensure immediate, measurable increase in profits by increasing customer satisfaction through efficiencies of existing operation.

Breakthrough improvements have been made without impacting current resources, including staff or capital purchases.

We empower your employees to buy into the company mission and vision so they make changes that benefit the company as a whole and provide FAR better results for the customer.

MaxPT has simplified the training materials and process

When students demonstrate the completion of their own improvement, they receive an industry-recognized Green Belt certificate.

Our Services

Systematic Innovation

Innovate to capture market share and stay ahead of your competitors. Systematic Innovation is for all businesses and organizations, not just those with products. We’ll teach you the most effective way to jump ahead in your market and keep growing your sales. You will look at the world in a completely different way after this training. Innovation is the third leg of the improvement tri-pod and probably the one your competitors are not using.

Team Based Problem Solving

Yellow Belt (Team Member) and Green Belt (Team Leader) Certification. On-site training and consulting for company-wide implementation. This industry leading service is the best way for your teams to drive improvement, reduce waste and improve quality. Our training is not based on case studies and practice projects. You will work on your own REAL problems during the courses and at the end of the 3 days, you will be 75% complete with your project. This training will return 3 to 5 times on your investment.

Lean Six Sigma Micro-Improvements

Drive employee engagement and profitability through micro-improvements (small improvements) by every person in your organization. Every employee should be involved in moving the company forward. This system is based on the practices used by all Deming Prize Winning companies. It increases manager/employee communication and grows the momentum around improvement. We use an app to track individual goals, micro-improvements, gains and solutions. The MaxPT app drives accountability and gives management visibility in the process.

High School Lean Six Sigma

Join us to “Create a generation of problem solvers.” Our Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt and Green Belt Certification Curriculum for High School students includes robust training, a train-the-trainer process, web-tools and a digital material license. We’ve certified 100’s of teachers in Ohio. Our system and approved trainers have certified almost 1,000 yellow and green belts to date (1/2020). We were the first company in the US to train and certify High School students in Lean Six Sigma.