Everything except
the BD grind.
Six concrete things you get on day one as a Lean Competence practitioner. No retainers paid, no platform minimums.
Quote your day rate or hourly. Clients see what you charge. Our platform fee sits on top, fully transparent.
Browse pre-qualified offers in your areas. Accept what fits, pass on what does not. No quotas, no pressure.
MSA, NDA, scoping, invoicing, expense reimbursement, VAT, currency. You consult, we paper it.
Hours approved Friday, in your account the following Friday. CHF, EUR or USD, your choice.
Professional liability and travel cover bundled for every engagement booked through Lean Competence.
Monthly practitioner roundtables in Zurich and online. Share patterns from the floor, no clients in the room.
See every
franc
before it lands.
Live dashboard: hours logged, invoices issued, payouts queued. No more month-end surprise. Set your rate, watch utilisation, pace your year.
A personal AI assistant for every practitioner.
Reads your incoming briefs, cites the curated lean library, drafts your work in your voice, and remembers what worked at the last client. Opt-in, from CHF 179 / mo.
Six engagement shapes.
Switch anytime.
Most Lean Competence practitioners run two or three shapes in parallel. A fractional retainer for cashflow, a sprint or two for variety, an interim if a transformation calls.
Sprints
1–2 weeks
Tight, focused. Diagnose, redesign, hand off. Most popular with operators who like clean endings.
Kaizen events
3–5 days
On-site facilitation. You drive the team, the team drives the change.
Fractional
Ongoing
Recurring weekly cadence. Coaching, gemba walks, daily-mgmt cadence keeping.
12-week project
12 weeks
A lighthouse area, run with the team. Pilot to playbook to roll-out.
Interim
3–12 months
Embedded full-time. Transformation lead, plant turnaround, maternity cover.
Train-the-trainer
2–6 weeks
Build internal capability. You certify the champions, the client scales it.
Operators
who became
coaches.
The Lean Competence network is built for senior practitioners with line responsibility behind them. Not method collectors. People who have closed gaps on real shop floors and now teach others to do the same.
8 to 15+ yrs
in operations or transformation roles
Line experience
plant, ward, branch or service line
Black Belt or equivalent
LSS BB / GB, CMC, CAS / MAS
Gemba-credible
translates between C-suite and frontline
Workshop facilitator
kaizen, A3, hoshin, value-stream
Sector authority
one or two industries known well
Industry
Discrete + process mfg, automotive, machinery
Medtech & pharma
GMP, validation, regulated changeover
Healthcare
Hospitals, clinics, patient-flow redesign
Construction
Lean construction, last-planner, takt
Admin streams
Back-office, claims, shared services
Probably not a fit
Junior consultants without delivery scars. Methodologists without industry. People looking for big-firm leverage. We are an operator network, not an analyst farm.
Four steps. About two weeks.
Apply
Send your CV and a short portfolio of three case examples. Five minutes.
Profile review
A Lean Competence domain lead reviews your file and books a 45-minute conversation, usually within five working days.
Match offers
Once accepted, qualified offers land in your inbox. Accept what fits, pass on what does not.
Deliver and bill
Log hours through the app. Invoices issue automatically. Payouts every two weeks.
Three out of the
eight hundred.
Ueli Vogt
AargauSenior Lean Coach, ex-plant manager
Earnings, 12 mo
Engagements
Avg rating
Dr. Isabelle Marti
BernLean Coach Healthcare
Earnings, 12 mo
Engagements
Repeat clients
Pascal Brunner
ZurichPrincipal Consultant, Lean Construction
Earnings, 12 mo
Engagements
Utilisation
Practitioners ask us.
No. You keep your direct clients, your firm, your other platforms. Many practitioners use Lean Competence for 30 to 70% of their year and run direct work alongside.
Five minutes.
One door.
Send us your CV and a short portfolio. A domain lead replies within five working days. If you are a fit, you are in the network within two weeks.
CV in any format
PDF, DOCX, link to LinkedIn
Three example cases
one paragraph each, ideally with numbers
Optional
certifications, languages, regulated sector experience