Mike Higgins, founder of ConsusOne and creator of Sensei Elite

About the founder

Built by a Master Black Belt who has lived the problem

Sensei Elite was built by Mike Higgins — a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with 25+ years directing process improvement across four continents. He built it to give every practitioner the 24/7 coaching he once delivered in person.

25+ years in the fieldFour continentsMaster Black Belt, 2010U.S. Air Force veteran
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Why I built Sensei Elite

Make the right thing to do, the easy thing to do

Up to 1 in 3 Lean Six Sigma projects fail to deliver — and 20 years of more training and certification has barely moved that number. It was never really a methodology problem. Lean Six Sigma is a practical skill: coached, not memorized. The real bottleneck isn’t whether organizations coach — it’s how little coaching each practitioner actually gets.

That’s the gap Sensei Elite closes. It’s a 24/7 coach that’s there the moment you’re stuck — not to do the work for you, but to ask the question that makes you find the answer and hold DMAIC discipline. It’s the coaching I always wished I could be there to provide.

Work that has spanned the globe

Improvement that sticks in any context

Projects and transformations on four continents — from Fortune 500 plants to post-war and developing economies.

United StatesBosnia & HerzegovinaCroatiaTurkeyRussiaKazakhstanLebanonUgandaAustralia

Where the work has happened

Coca-Cola
PepsiCo
Chevron
U.S. Navy (NAVAIR)
WestRock
U.S. Army
Western Power
United Nations
Orafol
Tropicana
$25M+
Enterprise hard savings
+70%
On-time surgery starts
30%
Cycle time cut in 6 weeks
100s
Practitioners Trained & Coached

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