NLA Youth Academy
Level Up: The Kaizen Course for Youth
8 sprints · each closing with a checkpoint · The Qualifier at 75% · closed-book
What this track is
One discipline, worked through as 8 sprints. Every Sprint ends in a Checkpoint you have to pass. The Qualifier at the end is closed-book, and you can sit it again straight away.
The 8 sprints, in order
- 1Foundations of Kaizen — Philosophy, History & Corporate Mindset
- 2The 8 Wastes (Muda) — Identifying & Eliminating Non-Value-Added Activities
- 3Core Kaizen Tools — 5S, PDCA, Standardized Work & Visual Management
- 4Value Stream Mapping (VSM) — Seeing the Whole System
- 5Kaizen Events — Planning, Executing & Sustaining Rapid Improvement
- 6Kaizen Metrics, KPIs & ROI — Measuring What Matters
- 7Change Management & Building a Kaizen Culture
- 8Advanced Kaizen — Digital Transformation, Hoshin Kanri & Enterprise Deployment
The same discipline the Certification Academy covers, cut into sprints and examined the way this academy examines. Not a different subject — the subject, in a form that suits you.
What you end with
A Proof is a certificate issued by NLA Academy in your name, carrying a number that anyone you send it to can check at nlagroup.org/verify in seconds — no account, and nothing to ask us for.
Verifiable from its number at /verify