Lean Sigma Corporation Approved as Registered Education Provider by Project Management Institute

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA – March 28, 2016 Lean Sigma Corporation today announces that the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s largest project management member association, has named it as a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) effective April 1, 2016 R.E.P.s are organizations that have been approved by PMI to help project managers achieve and maintain the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, Program Management Professional (PgMP)® and other PMI professional credentials. These organizations have met PMI’s rigorous quality criteria for course content, instructor qualification, and instructional design.

Project managers are increasingly turning to R.E.P.s for certification training and maintenance, especially since global median salaries for the profession now exceed $81,000 (USD). Similarly, median salaries for certified Six Sigma Black Belts also eclipse $100,000 which is a certification provided by Lean Sigma Corporation offering project management professionals 105 professional development units.

Michael Parker, the founder and president of Lean Sigma Corporation states “for six sigma professionals, the relationship between six sigma and project management is fundamental. I look forward to capitalizing on this opportunity to more deliberately incorporate project management into our own program. I am also optimistic about being a provider of continuing education for project management professionals around the world”.

Lean Sigma Corporation joins more than 1,500 R.E.P.s in more than 80 countries. These organizations include commercial training providers, academic institutions, and corporate training departments within corporations and government agencies.

About Lean Sigma Corporation

Lean Sigma Corporation is a management consulting firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with expertise in Lean, Six Sigma, Program and Project Management. They maintain world class lean six sigma training products in the form of eLearning, classroom training content and various training manuals authored by the founder and president Michael Parker. Lean Sigma Corporation also provides superior operational excellence capabilities through both consulting and their online system “DeployOpEx”, a fully hosted, client branded, operational excellence system facilitating training, program and project management.

About Project Management Institute (PMI)

Project Management Institute is the world's leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the project, program and portfolio management profession. Founded in 1969, PMI delivers value for more than 2.9 million professionals working in nearly every country in the world through global advocacy, collaboration, education and research. PMI advances careers, improves organizational success and further matures the profession of project management through its globally recognized standards, certifications, resources, tools academic research, publications, professional development courses, and networking opportunities. As part of the PMI family, Human Systems International (HSI) provides organizational assessment and benchmarking services to leading businesses and government, while ProjectManagement.com and ProjectsAtWork.com create online global communities that deliver more resources, better tools, larger networks and broader perspectives.

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