SISU Consulting Group specializes in increasing stakeholder value through the development of lean leaders at each level of the organization. By inspiring groups to expand their vision of what’s possible we engage teams through action and insight and show organizations how to build sustainable systems of daily continuous improvement.SISU works with each of its clients to build a sustainable continuous improvement program and significantly improve bottom-line results through the development of its most valuable asset, its people. Regardless of our client’s goals or challenges, we stand beside them in the trenches; helping them to learn how to eliminate the fear of change, take ownership of their opportunities, and create break- through results through daily action.At SISU, we work with management to create alignment across people and processes using a “learn-do-improve” methodology. It is our belief that there is no “one best way” to solve business problems, engage people and drive change across an organization. There are however, foundational principles we employ that allow us to design and implement management systems which reinforce action, accountability and daily innovation.As a means to this end, SISU Consulting Group assists clients with a variety of services ranging from the creation of proprietary learning programs to leading organizational lean transformations. Each of our implementations is guided by the belief that our role is to empower people to become independent risk takers and leverage their abilities to solve problems and think creatively about their daily work.

Founded in the spring of 1979, Pacific Rim Martial Arts Academy offers martial arts classes for juniors and adults, continuing a long history of passing on the kind of tradition that takes several lifetimes to acquire. Our Head Instructor, Mr. Michael Martyn began his training at Pacific Rim in 1981 and spent more than 30 years as Mr. Garrison’s direct student. In 2012, Mr. Garrison presented Mr. Martyn with a katana and wakizashi from the Edo Period to signify the passing of the school and Pacific Rim’s tradition and heritage. This change in leadership was completed in 2014 when Mr. Garrison retired from active teaching at the school and Mr. Martyn assumed full-time responsibility for the dojo.Pacific Rim is in the unique position to blend Asian cultures in a way that provides students opportunities to train in a variety of martial arts. Since its founding, Pacific Rim has been host to martial arts masters from both Japan and Korea. As the oldest martial arts academy in Oregon, Pacific Rim is considered to be the most complete training environment for students wanting to learn the traditions and benefits of traditional martial arts training.True excellence has a long tradition of wholehearted dedication, loyal allegiance, unassailable integrity, and infinite patience, and blossoms over a lifetime. Techniques are what we practice in that particular moment. A lifetime practitioner realizes that over time, techniques will be perfected, will change, will evolve. But the qualities that really matter—internal qualities such a courtesy and integrity—these do not change. These are the same no matter what martial art one is practicing. Pacific Rim passes on an internal value system of courtesy, respect, personal integrity, dedication, and internal fortitude to its students because that is the way the arts have been taught for the past six decades.

The Shingo Institute is the premier global organization dedicated to the education, assessment and recognition of world-class cultures of enterprise excellence. Founded more than 35 years ago as a non-profit organization and housed at Utah State University, the Institute is home to the Shingo Prize (which Business Week termed, “The Nobel Prize of Lean Manufacturing”) and oversees research and development of best practice educational material utilized by thousands of organizations across North America, South America, Europe, India, Asia and Australia. The organization has developed an extensive global network of certified examiners and educational partners and is lead by an experienced management team. The institute is guided by an Executive Advisory Board, whose members are senior executives with extensive continuous improvement experience from such organizations as Autoliv, OC Tanner, Denso, Raytheon, Parker Hannafin, Textron, and Lean Enterprise Institute (among others).Mike has worked with the institute since 2001 holding such roles as Senior Examiner, Senior Team Leader, Director of the Western Region, Educational Partner, Board Member and most recently, Senior Curriculum Advisor. Mike is a 4x winner of the Shingo Prize for Research and Publication Award (2008, 2013, 2019, 2023) and many of SISU's clients have received recognition at all levels from the prize; Shingo Prize (50).