We Help You Take Your Business
to the Next Level of Performance

As practitioners of Lean principles, we help our clients achieve their value creation and operational plans while meeting and exceeding their performance expectations.

What We Do

We are lean consultants that help you develop new breakthrough capabilities that deliver extraordinary customer value.

NEXT LEVEL Partners,® LLC is much more than a consulting firm. We are your partner in creating a sustainable, competitive advantage in revenue growth, profitability, and cash flow.

Founded in 2003 by the original architects of the Danaher Business System (DBS), NEXT LEVEL Partners’ proven methods creates new breakthrough capabilities and sustains the implementation through knowledge transfer and change management.

If you are facing an operating performance challenge, struggling to improve profitability, losing market share, or looking to widen your position as an industry leader, NEXT LEVEL Partners can help.

Services

Your roadmap to success starts with partnership. At NEXT LEVEL Partners, we become your trusted guide, collaborating with you to execute on strategy, ignite commercial excellence, streamline operations with Lean principles, and unleash the power of your people. 

Our Experience

We have delivered results in your industry:

Our expertise spans any industry – from streamlining logistics in distribution to igniting customer loyalty in hospitality. We’ve helped private equity firms unlock hidden value, manufacturers achieve operational excellence, and technology companies accelerate innovation. No matter your sector, we’re your business transformation partner.

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Which Is the Most Important Factor in Building and Sustaining a Successful Continuous Improvement Business System?

This blog explores the three key elements that contribute to a successful CI Business System: organization design, leadership, and culture.

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CASE STUDY: Distribution & Logistics

A well-established distribution company with annual revenues exceeding $500 million was grappling with significant challenges including surging seasonal demand, a complex product mix, integration issues, and a high level of employee turnover.

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What Our Clients Say

NEXT LEVEL Partners,® LLC is not just a name, it’s our promise. Numbers tell a story, but it’s the voices of our clients that truly reveal the transformative power of Lean and Continuous Improvement. Read on and realize the tangible and lasting changes we’ve helped businesses achieve.

“Just a shout out and recommendation about Scott McDuffee with NEXT LEVEL Partners®, LLC. I’ve worked with “Lean” consultants throught my career. Not many of them can
“We partnered with NLP a couple of years ago to help jump start the transformation of our aerospace operations. We produce very complex systems with numerous components and
“We were very happy with NLP’s process. The design we came out of this week with was out-of-the-box thinking and better than any of the ideas we had going into this session. We feel this will be a very robust design
“I wanted to take a minute and give you my personal review of the NLP Practitioner that worked primarily with us. Not only is he one of the best consultants I have ever worked with,

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