Offer 01 · Standalone Engagement
Your leadership team knows something is wrong. They just can’t agree on where it lives — or how bad it actually is.
John runs a baseline analysis event with your designated team using the DMAIC framework, walking the executive team through their value stream end-to-end.
No PowerPoints. No chairs. Just indisputable facts and data that align even the most resistant leaders on what needs to change — and why.
This engagement can stand alone or serve as the foundation for a Kaizen retainer.
We populate the map with hard measurements — lead time, cost, defect rate, touch points. When data does the talking, there’s nothing to argue.
Alignment happens without persuasion.
“He walked into this war room and there were maps and analysis all over the walls. No PowerPoints — just facts, measurements, and the old process next to the new. He said: ‘I want you. You’re hired.’ That was it.”
Recent Example
South Florida Nonprofit Organization
The top eight leaders knew they needed to learn Lean — a major customer had told them to lean out their operations or risk losing the relationship.
John delivered Executive Alignment as a standalone engagement, educating the team and mapping the value stream in one week. No Kaizen retainer required.
Kaizen Events
Offer 02 · Retainer · 6–24 Months
Problems that have resisted resolution for years get solved in a week. Not planned. Not proposed. Done by Friday.
Kaizen is Japanese for “change for the better.” John facilitates five-day improvement events where a cross-functional team, with authority to make decisions in the room, maps the value stream, runs root cause analysis, redesigns the process, and locks it in before the week ends.
Delivered on retainer (6–24 months) as part of a sustained culture change program.
We start with current-state measurements — lead time, defect rate, process steps, cost. By Friday, we measure again. The improvement is documented, indisputable, and immediate.
What A Kaizen Week Looks Like
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Measure
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Analyze
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Innovate
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Control |
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Training on Lean and DMAIC. Map the current state end to end. Every touchpoint documented.
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Populate the map with facts and data. This is where the leadership team walks the wall and sees the reality.
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Run the Five Whys. Identify root cause. Write the problem statement that the whole team owns.
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Design the new process. Don’t improve what should be eliminated — redesign entirely. Begin implementation.
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New process in place. Standard work documented. Poka-yoke controls locked in. Present results to leadership.
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“That’s what blows people’s minds — I’m helping them solve problems in a week that they’ve struggled with for years. And they just couldn’t seem to get out of their own way.”
Case Study — Pharmaceutical Company
$300M in raw material inventory. $1 to make one vitamin tablet.
A pharmaceutical manufacturer — a major Walmart supplier — had $300M in raw material inventory sitting for up to six months. Two inventory turns per year.
Material traveled 14.2 miles from receiving to shipping. A series of Kaizen events redesigned the value stream, collapsed lead time, and cut inventory to a fraction of its former level.
Typical Measurable Results
Keynotes
Offer 03 · Speaking Engagement
John draws from 20 books, 38 years of case studies, and a rare dual identity: the sage who can also execute.
His keynotes don’t just inspire — they reframe. Audiences leave with a different way of seeing their organizations, their teams, and their own leadership. Available as a standalone engagement or as the entry point that leads to Executive Alignment and deeper work.
John has shared the stage with General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Zig Ziglar, Denis Waitley, Anthony Robbins, and Jim Rohn.
The Five Whys, the value stream, and the mindset shift from symptom-chasing to root cause elimination. The session executives request again — for their teams, their boards, and their offsites.
How ego, fear, and self-doubt are the hidden root cause of most organizational dysfunction — and what it looks like to lead from inner peace, clarity, and genuine confidence instead.
The ten rules for high-performance teamwork have traveled from Grand Rapids to Fortune 100 boardrooms, universities, military units, and hospitals in 50+ countries.
“If you want a strong, positive jump start to your professional and personal lives, then John Murphy’s books — and his stage — are must experiences.”
Audience & Format
Built for the people who run things.
John’s keynotes are designed for C-suite conferences, executive summits, association events, university programs, and all-hands leadership meetings.
Formats range from 45-minute keynotes to full-day workshops. Each is grounded in real case studies, real data, and 38 years of results — not motivational theory.
The Methodology
The Framework Behind All Three Offers.
Whether John delivers a standalone Executive Alignment, a year of Kaizen events, or a keynote, every engagement is grounded in DMAIC: Define, Measure, Analyze, Innovate, Control. It’s the same framework Toyota built its legendary production system on, refined over 38 years of real-world application.
The Five Whys lives inside the Analyze stage. The Kaizen week runs all five stages in five days. And every keynote introduces at least one DMAIC stage so the audience leaves with something they can apply immediately.
Organizations John Has Served