AME Programs
Future-Proof your Organization with AME’s Exclusive Program Offerings
Achieving enterprise excellence requires knowledge, skills and commitment. AME offers the programs and peer-to-peer support to help you get there!
AME Lean Certification
Build, Strengthen and Lead
AME offers a structured AME Lean Certification program comprised of three progressive belt levels: Yellow, Green, and Black. This tiered approach ensures growth in knowledge, leadership capability, and practical application of lean tools and methodologies.

AME Lean Sensei®
Improve the way you improve
AME’s member-only Lean Sensei® tool allows AME members to identify areas for improvement, learn about best practices to drive improvement and benchmark their organization against distinguished AME Excellence Award recipient companies.
AME Excellence Award recipients operate at exceptional levels of performance, setting a high bar for achieving success in the pursuit of operational excellence. If you are interested in joining this distinguished group of recipients, the AME Lean Sensei® will help you see if you’re ready to apply.

Champions Club
Share, Learn and Grow with senior leadership executive peers
The AME Champions Club is an exclusive executive leadership group from small, medium and large enterprises across industries focused on challenges and approaches to driving enterprise excellence. The principal benefit for membership in AME Champions Club is the opportunity to meet, engage and share experiences with peers that are committed to enterprise excellence and continuous improvement.

AME Emerging Leaders
Building the next generation of leadership
AME Emerging Leaders is a leadership development program that enables lean practitioners to participate in problem-solving work groups, network with peers and serve the profession in a leadership capacity. It also puts participants on a fast track to AME volunteerism. The program seeks diversity based on geography, gender, ethnicity and type of industry.

AME Consortia
Local learning networks
AME Consortium is a group of local companies (20 +/-) that collaborate for broad, deep, accelerated lean-CI progress better, faster and easier than they can do it alone. These dynamic practitioner-to-practitioner networks are designed to support you in accelerating your company’s journey toward excellence.
