About the Founder
Andrew Parris, PhD and LSS MBB
I have a PhD from MIT and am a certified Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Master Black Belt (MBB). After 11 years learning and applying LSS on the Atlas rocket program, I worked for World Vision for 9 years - three in East Africa - teaching and coaching LSS. For 8 1/2 years, I worked as Process Excellence Manager for Medair, a Christian humanitarian NGO headquartered near Lausanne, Switzerland. I have also worked with the International Trade Centre as a consultant, training and coaching Quality Champions in Nepal, Laos, Iraq, Myanmar and the Philippines.
Now I am working as a consultant to help you and your organization improve performance by making work easier, better, faster and cheaper. I am eager to see Lean grow in practice and impact in Switzerland and Europe and in the Middle East and Africa. I can help any type of organization: private sector SMEs and companies, third sector nonprofits and development & humanitarian organizations (NGOs), and even governmental and educational entities .
I also write and speak to promote Lean because I know how great an impact it can have.
About my partners in Africa
Our team (with LinkedIn links)
Achieng' (Elizabeth) and Clement in Kenya, Darine in Burundi, Kibunje in Uganda and Ben in South Africa
Our history
We created Go Lean and Grow in 2023, but our story began more than 10 years before that when Andrew was leading a Lean Six Sigma initiative in the World Vision East Africa region, from mid-2011 to mid-2014. All of our team members received Lean or Lean Six Sigma training from Andrew and have been applying what they learned in their work since that time. All are now offering Lean training that was developed for NGOs and SME and has been refined for over 15 years.
Our mission
Our mission is to bring the benefits of Lean into more organizations, whether companies, NGOs, SMEs, governmental agencies or any other organisation.
We are eager to help you learn what Lean is and apply it in your work to improve the performance of your organisation, whether in an NGO, an SME, a government entity, an educational institution or a large company.