Leadership Team

Jayaprakash (JP) Gnanam, President

Jayaprakash (JP) Gnanam is the Founder and the President of LSSE – Lean Six Sigma Experts Corporation, training and consulting organization based in Lakewood, CO. He has over 15 years of experience in implementing and training Lean Six Sigma in the US, India, Europe, South and Central America. He has held almost all Lean Six Sigma roles in various multinational companies over the last decade ranging from Lean Engineer to Global Director of Lean Six Sigma. He has trained and mentored over 1000+ professionals in Lean Six Sigma around the world.

Chris Grove, VP, Recruiting Services and Sales

Chris Grove is the Vice President of Recruiting Services and Sales for LSSE-Lean Six Sigma Experts Corporation. She leads Recruiting Services and Sales Operations. She has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and recruiting services.

Jamie Blair, VP, Training and Consulting

Jamie Blair is the Vice President of Training and Consulting for LSSE-Lean Six Sigma Experts Corporation. He leads Training and Consulting Services. He has over 20 years of experience in implementing Lean Six Sigma and other Process Improvement methods in various industries. He is one of the GE certified Six Sigma Black Belts.

Lainie Mabbitt, VP, People Excellence

Lainie Mabbitt is the Vice President of People Excellence Services for LSSE-Lean Six Sigma Experts Corporation. She leads People Excellence offerings. Lainie Mabbitt has over 20 years of Human Resources and training experience in the US, Europe and Mexico.

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LSSE has developed an improvement roadmap for our organization and has been instrumental in leading our culture change. With LSSE’s help, we have been seeing great sustainable cultural and operational improvements. The Lean journey we have been taking with LSSE, is taking us forward and helping us to be more competitive. LSSE’s consultant is...

Phillip G. Kretekos

I have been working with JP and his team for close to two years. We've planned and implemented two significant changes to our operation in that time, as well as spent time aligning the team here in how to better prepare for success with these concepts as we develop more products. These activities included process mapping, analysis, layout...

JOE CHAPPRON

LSSE helped our company immensely. We were faced with a very challenging situation, where one of our most critical customers was planning to move a product line to China. We were selling the product for around $7, and the customer wanted to buy it for $4. LSSE came into our shop and conducted a Kaizen event on the product line. With their...

PETE NEIDECKER

JP and Lean Six Sigma Experts Corporation provided us the guidance and know how to elevate our game. And, it proved to be a huge asset when dealing with our lending institution that had been frustrated with our less than stellar financial performance. They now have increased confidence in us going forward. If you’re serious about making an...

JOSEPH P. SILVA

As a Black Belt, I have sat through years of training in Lean Six Sigma. My experience with LSSE was exceptional. Not only did the instructor know the subject matter, but I felt as if he knew our business. The enthusiasm he conveyed was a great shot in the arm for our staff. If you're going to change your culture, then look no further than...

SIDNEY TAYLOR

I want to thank you for the excellent Green Belt training you provided to our group. Your extensive knowledge and experience in Six Sigma made it easy to learn, and the course format allowed for direct application to projects within our agency. You tailored the training to meet our specific needs and you were flexible with the training schedule as...

RYAN JORDAN

This course will change how we do business. Our customers will begin to see us as the leaders in our industry. JP is a very charismatic instructor and provides enough real life examples so that you can easily understand the tools. I would highly recommend using LSSE to anyone.

JAMES NUELLE

I would like to express my gratitude to Lean Six Sigma Experts for having JP Gnanam in your team; he is very methodical, inspiring, dynamic, and truly the Subject Matter Expert in all aspects of Lean Six Sigma Principles and Processes. JP’s level of professionalism and knowledge surpassed my expectation from this course. He provided valuable tools...

JEFF PAGTALUNAN

JP is one of the most hands on experienced folks I have ever met, he makes complicated topics easy to understand and shares a depth of knowledge and experience which is quite impressive. I learned so much by attending his Lean Six Sigma Master Black belt course and absolutely recommend him for advanced training.

MASTER BLACK BELT TRAINING PARTICIPANT

I wanted to give my sincere thanks to LSSE and JP for offering and delivering such a fantastic Master Black Belt training. The topics covered during the training were very much aligned to the knowledge and skills required for a Master Black Belt to advise and facilitate sustainable continuous improvement efforts. In addition, the shared examples...

TIASH MILAZZO

The depth of the knowledge was highly beneficial. Opportunities to utilize their services expanded beyond the scope of the initial requisition. Services were tailored to meet our differing customer requirements matching the voice of the audience. Very detailed and priority on exceeding customer expectations.

TIMOTHY KOSHURBA

I just got back from a short travel and you are my first email, and I would like to thank you for everything that you have done for us last week. I really enjoyed the course, the slides-very informative, the way you engaged with your audience, the way you provided realistic and valuable examples and experiences, and your overall teaching...

MASTER BLACK BELT TRAINING CLASS PARTICIPANT

LSSE delivered well put together presentations which covered several statistics topics that built upon each other in a logical order. We had a class of over 20 people with experience ranges from first timers to experts and everyone was able to learn a lot and was excited to use the new statistics tools. JP is also a great presenter who explains...

MIKE LYALL

Our team received Lean Practitioner Training from LSSE. While the course content is solid, the LSSE instructor makes the difference. He has the ability to engage each student in the class to enable collaboration and learning. He was very knowledgeable and was able to work with student from different backgrounds. The course structured very well and...

DURGESH MANJURE

The LSSE training we received was well structured, taught well, and incorporated a nice balance between practical reasoning, graphical analysis and analytics. I've attended many other statistical/Minitab training courses and this is the first one to challenge the team to listen to what the data is saying AND challenge the output with a...

MIKE STEVENS

LSSE training is by far the most efficient way to learn statistical techniques and how to use them properly. The structured approach teaching the fundamentals of statistical techniques and how to utilize the techniques with Minitab are presented clearly with obvious implications for practical use. I use the skills I learned in the training daily...

DEVIN MCBLAIR

I greatly enjoyed the course. It has greatly increased my knowledge and usability of lean and six sigma techniques. I will use what I have learned here for the rest of my career.

MIKE RIGGS

JP is very thorough in his instruction of the six sigma process. He provides useful tools that can be applied to a variety of situations. He also manages to keep everyone's attention by providing a fun atmosphere for learning. Highly recommend this class.

K. DAVIS

LSSE instructor, JP was inspiring and insightful. His help with understanding and implementing Lean 6 Sigma was priceless in creating our company’s model cell.

JASON PHILLY

JP provided a clear, fresh and proactive approach for Lean & Kaizen. His practical knowledge of the tools and techniques made easier for our company (Accellent) to start the Lean Journey. It is important to mention his capability to plan the whole implementation of Lean in a multi-site company. I highly recommend JP for Lean Implementation.

JOSE CANEL

The class and the instructor were both top-notch. Very few multi-day training sessions could keep me engaged for the entire training, but between the interesting material and engaging instructor, the class felt like it flew by and I was always focused. I would recommend this class to anyone series about improving the efficiency of their...

MIKE DANTZLER

Great instructor!! Very knowledgeable and JP made learning Six Sigma fun. Equating six Sigma to our ONRR world was extremely helpful!! Thanks!

SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT TRAINING PARTICIPANT

JP is very knowledgeable, funny, upbeat and a positive instructor. He made the experience worthwhile. Great job JP!

SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT TRAINING PARTICIPANT

The instructor presents the material and offered classroom activities in a way that is very applicable to participants. This course gives me the foundation I need to work on an actual project, one of the best classes I have attended.

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Leadership Team

Jayaprakash (JP) Gnanam, President

Chris Grove, VP, Recruiting Services and Sales

Jamie Blair, VP, Training and Consulting

Lainie Mabbitt, VP, People Excellence

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