We are Passionate About Developing People

From developing custom courses for Fortune 500 companies to the launch of our new online academy, SISU is committed to developing successful leaders at each level of the organization through results-based training and personal coaching.
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Your Instructor

Founder, SISU Consulting Group

Author, Own the Gap

Director Emeritus, Shingo Institute

Lifetime Member of the Shingo Academy

Member, Shingo Assessment Committee

3x Shingo Research Prize Winner

Adjunct Faculty, Shingo MBA

 

Mike is intense and his past success and business experience lend confidence and excitement to his sessions.  As opposed to other companies that merely come in and present training classes, SISU ensures clients are addressing actual business needs, refines learning needs down to their simplest form and identifies critical indicators of success.  Each participant is held accountable to learn and apply the information taught and Mike gives individual attention to each person to identify their strengths, overcome personal obstacles and taste success.  Once the word gets out that Mike is leading a session, people are clamoring to get into the class.
Allison Barlow

Director of Development, OC Tanner

Michael Martyn

Founder and President of SISU Consulting Group, Mike is based in Portland, Oregon but travels extensively to support clients across the globe, including Europe, Latin America and Asia.  SISU Consulting Group is a Licensed Affiliate for the Shingo Institute and an award winning international consultancy supporting clients in 14 countries and responsible for the training and development of certified Shingo trainers and examiners. 

Mike has personally coached more than 120 organization in implementing the principles of Enterprise Excellence, including Baxter Healthcare, Boeing, Raytheon, Intermountain Healthcare, La-Z-Boy, OC Tanner, Daimler, University of Washington, Aera Energy, Boston Scientific, Christie Clinic and Abbott.  Over the past 17 years, Mike has contributed hugely to the development of the Shingo Model and Assessment Framework, is Director Emeritus of the Shingo Institute, double Shingo Prize winning author and Lifetime member of the Shingo Academy. 

In his most recent Shingo Prize winning book, Own the Gap, Mike sets out a clear and successful methodology for helping organizations translate the theory of the Shingo Model into reality, and by focusing on the 4-Key Systems, achieve world-class business results. This methodology produce phenomenal results at the University of Washington, culminating in over 80,000 implemented ideas, $328 million in financial benefit and the 2019 Shingo Research and Publication Prize.

Prior to founding SISU, Mike worked in the private equity arena, successfully turning around companies in both manufacturing and service industries.  It was during this time as a turnaround specialist that Mike was personally mentored in the principles of the Toyota Production System and refined his approach to driving business results by designing a management system that engages each member of the organization in team-based problem solving toward customer-centric goals.

Results Are in Our Blood

For more than 15 years, SISU has supported organizational in 14 different countries and across both manufacturing and service industries.  We do this by developing leaders at each level of the organization who can successfully design principle-based daily management systems which engage everyone in their organization and drive business results.  Enroll in our courses and experience why SISU has more award winning clients than any other consultancy in the world!

We literally wrote the book!

Written and tested over a three year period, and based on more than 15 years of direct implementation experience, Own the Gap teaches the reader how to create a culture of daily kaizen where “improving the work is the work.”  More than 500 organizations have used our model to drive engagement and results, including such industries as healthcare, manufacturing, retail, energy, and higher education.

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